Only Democrats would self-flagellate quite this much, having won the national popular vote by historic margins, held onto the House despite a severe pro-GOP gerrymander, and holding a chance to get to 50 seats in the Senate, a constitutional gerrymandered body.
So now that we know what happened last Tuesday, the work begins to understand... what happened last Tuesday. Or, more accurately, how it happened. We often rush to draw conclusions from limited and flawed datasets, and these early false narratives can be hard to shake.
Anybody who's like "we'll that was a pretty good showing for Trump!" should consider how Hillary Clinton was treated as the World's Biggest Loser after an election with the same Electoral College margin as this one*.
* But where she won the popular vote instead of losing it by 5
Unmarried women played an outsized role in 2020. See the report on election results based on a battleground survey.
Download:https://t.co/5DULZMSgcy
#WhoVoted
Work with Stan Greenberg this week yielded deep analysis of shifting electoral preferences that are certain to further alter voting patterns in the future. Download here:
https://t.co/5DULZMSgcy
#2020Elections#2020ElectionResults
We conducted an election day poll of 2020 voters in the electoral college battleground. @StanGreenberg@PageGardnerDC @Women_Vote
Here is the first cut of a memo on what happened and what it means.
https://t.co/aphhqGpd5z
Every single person that works at the networks and the AP knows that Joe Biden has won the election. Their reticence is creating a vacuum that Trump is filling with dangerous misinformation.
This has fallen under the radar, but 34% of the 40 million unregistered voters in the U.S. can register to vote on Election Day.
If you know people who live in the 21 states with Election Day voter registration, let them know it's not too late for them to make their voice heard.
A useful exercise to free your mind heading into next week: Trump won in 2016 because of fundamentals, not in spite of them. And the fundamentals this time tell a very different story.