Harris' candidacy has led to surge in Black voter enthusiasm. It could make a difference in swing states
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There's a surge of support for Harris from Black voters and organizers who could make up lost ground for Democrats in critical battleground states.

“Enthusiasm” has always been a “flex” for GOP these recent elections.

Is that similar to a noise meter at events?

The enthusiasm equals 2 football fields plus 6 cubits.

      • TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world
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        4 months ago

        I am still at work and wont get to this till the weekend, but I was running some aggregate statistics looking at '12, '16, and '20 at the precinct level.

        I have the data pulled, but I need to aggregate it.

        Effectively, I’m looking at demographic shifts and mapping them to outcomes. I have the data, I just need to do it.

    • Zipitydew@sh.itjust.works
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      4 months ago

      Wild levels of hopium.

      North Carolina maybe. Georgia and Pennsylvania again are going to be tough but reasonable to hope for.

      But Florida? Ronda won with 60% of the vote 2 years ago. Winning counties that had been traditionally blue.

      Florida continues to skew older and is accelerating in average age. Mass migration of retired Boomers continues to push the state harder conservative. They’re on pace for 1/3rd of the adults to be older than 65 in a couple years. It was 1/4 not that long ago.

      Number of registered Republicans has recovered since the pandemic. Is now nearly 1M above Democrats.

      • TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world
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        4 months ago

        Oh dont get me wrong. Until I finish the work I have on my plate and can really dig into the data, its pure hopium.

        I was only able to run some very preliminary stats, but in the aggregate, a move in votership of 3-5% might be plenty. It was less of a difference than that which put Obama in the white house.

        But plenty doesn’t matter; where plenty happens is what matters.