Throwaway Post
Sometimes we like to get a little "inside baseball" when talking politics. This is one of those articles that we enjoy and like to share:
Yes, many Chicago voters shifted right this election, but even more of them didn’t show up to vote blue.
A WBEZ analysis finds that a large part of Trump’s doubling support in Chicago was due to a staggering dropoff in Democratic voter turnout rather than an increase in Trump voters.
Trump actually won the 41st Ward (corrected), once a bastion of Right thinking city workers and for years, though that has faded over time.
Citywide, former President Donald Trump saw a roughly 16,000 vote bump compared to 2020, but Vice President Kamala Harris’ vote total was more than 205,000 votes behind President Joe Biden’s in 2020.
“The real story is you have fewer people voting and that Trump got the same number of votes in 2024 than he got in 2020,” said Delmarie Cobb, a Democratic political and media consultant.
The city’s overall voter turnout — 65.02% as of Friday — was the second-lowest it’s been in a presidential general election since 1944. In that span, only once has citywide turnout fell below that mark — 63.17% in 1996.
A steep decline in voter turnout, especially in the areas of the city that most reliably vote blue, show that a vast number of Democrats who stayed home this election played a significant role in Chicago’s rightward shift this year.
Though Trump lost Illinois by half-a-million votes, it was his best showing in three cycles and the best for a GOP candidate since Bush Sr in 1988. Illinois was almost in play, and if there had been an appearance or two here, probably would have been much closer.
Labels: national politics
posted by SCC at 12:01 AM
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205,000 less fraudulent ballots. No ability and lust for voter fraud nationwide this time. I wonder why.
Nov. 15, News-Gazette editorial: Dick Durbin reconsidering his future.
The media can’t hide it. It will continue to go red as the blue continue to do as they do!
Voter apathy is a variable. But if it were in this election, then the number of votes for Trump would have dropped also. At least some percentage less. Harris, described as a black or brown person, allegedly drew 200k less voters in this City than a senile, arrogant white dude who rarely left his basement, had a few low attended rallys, and lost previous attempts for President. Seems more like evidence that drop boxes and mail in ballots, over a month long election season, was ripe for fraud.
In 2016, 2020, and 2024, Trump won more counties in Illinois than Clinto, Biden, or Harris. ILLINOIS has 102 counties…2024 Trump won 89 and Harri won….see this…only 13. 2016 he beat Clinton. 2020 he beat Biden. Chicago is a RES STATE, but for Chicago and suburban counties. Pritzker has had “Jesus Moment”
If, and this is a HUGE if, something could be done about the dead continuing to vote in Cook county IL would very much be in play.
Here's hoping that Vance or whomever runs in 2028 actually makes an effort for IL.
Winnebago county and several of the collar counties were close enough that if the RFK Jr voters had voted for Trump, like RFK Jr asked, Trump would have won.
I get sick of people writing off IL as a "Blue State".
Cook county is blue, quite like because of shenanigans, and the rest of the state is red or at least in play.
The downstate counties that go blue are homes to universities.
No telling how many students are voting there and back in their home in Chiraq or the suburbs.
Now that the final number of the popular vote is in, I think Democrats have to come to terms with their racism and misogyny. 7 million democrats were apparently refused to vote for a woman of color and instead chose to stay home on Election Day. What other explanation could there possibly be? I mean, the old white guy got 81 million votes in 2020, and one would expect, since there was of course NO democrat election corruption in 2020, Harris would have at least gotten that.
I think it’s time for me to shut these racist, misogynistic democrat friends and family out of my life for good
Maybe the wards just got tired of filling in ballots.
More progressive hand wringing about why so many people don't like their ideas or the half-wit morons they put up to run for office.
Dump a Democrat, Dump the safe t act!
The Donald cannot overcome the sheer numbers of the Great Unwashed Democrat Welfare Voters.
The problem is the welfare roaches that continue to vote democrat for the freebees! I contend that only actual taxpayers and property owners should be allowed to cast a vote. People with skin in the game!
45th Ward is toast. Intellectually, I knew it in early 2017 when it became known that the Master Plan was to make Jeff Park a dumping ground for subsidized housing. I still tried to rationalize staying because I liked my house. The 2020 shitshow forced my hand when I saw my newish neighbors walking home with Defund the Police signs from various protests and riots. Polish have moved to NW burbs and beyond. Replaced by voucher recipients, neck bearded hipsters, religion of peaceniks, and various and sundry non English speakers. Lawrence/Austin looks like 16th/Kenzie. Sporadic gunfire at night, burglaries, thefts, etc…Only a matter of time before something bad happened. Moved 960 miles away from Jeff Park. Good luck.
Mentally ill, delusional white women in Chicago’s collar counties won Illinois for Harris.
I still think there was massive mail in voter fraud in 2020.
The election was a week long, and amazingly the votes were for Biden
In a year where it was supposed to be the most important election. There's like 16 million + votes missing nationally when compared to the 2020 election. Election Fraud? 2020- 168,308,000 voted, 2024- 152 million voted
Drove by the early voting site in my ward numerous times and the lines were mostly full of people over 50 years of age.
Did people stay home or did fraudulent votes go down? Weren’t there 15 million less votes in 2024 than 2020? People vote with their pocket books … Unlike 2020, there is now record inflation and many families are suffering financially. So why would they not vote in 2024? This does not add up.
President Trump won the 41st, not the 45th Ward...
He received 51.29% to her 47.43%.
And, if Illinois required a photo ID to vote, he would have won it.
At MT Greenwood park on the last Sunday I got there when they opened.had to wait an hour and a half to vote. What took so long was voting no for all the judges. But fun to vote for Trump
The only states Harris won are those that you don't need an ID to vote. There was no democratic voters who didn't vote. They just never existed. This was a cleaner election, and would have been the result in 2020 had there been no corruption. Women voted for Trump. Women who were tired of seeing their 26 year old college educated sons playing video games in the basement and living like. Incels.
A Minnesota election judge has been criminally charged for allowing 11 unregistered people to vote
What?
If and until the collar counties (Will, DuPage, Kane, Lake) turn red, the Republicans do not have a chance to win a statewide election.
Yes. Less votes. Even the Democrats have fled the city away from crime and high taxes. What was the population that left the city in the last 4 years?
Maybe the dead did not rise for Kamala the way they did for Hillary and Joe.
Our Safe-T-Act, dunderhead governor blustered, per the NBC-5 staff writers, “To anyone who intends to come, take away the freedom and opportunity and dignity of Illinoisans, I would remind you that a happy warrior is still a warrior,” Pritzker said. “You come for my people, you come through me.” And there is a whole lot of blubber to come through!
That's why the Founding Fathers only gave the vote to White male property holders. They knew that anyone else would be subject to manipulation and influence of all kinds, including the overwhelming temptation to vote themselves government benefits. You can argue whether the Founders were wise in that regard - but they were certainly prescient.
Illinois should require a photo ID that only citizens can get. Illegals can get a photo ID in Illinois. In 2021, Governor Pritzker signed HB 3882 into law, which grants undocumented immigrants the right to obtain a standard Illinois Driver's License.
Same sentiment different location, but it just made me realize I don’t know what happened with the judges. I wonder if any were actually not retained. Probably not. I’ll try finding in board of elections site.
Seems like all those used to be reliably Republican. What exactly was happening while I grew old?
I THINK this is worthy of a repost scc
https://wirepoints.org/pritzker-appoints-self-as-democracys-superhero-wirepoints/
Has Pritzker declared war on the federal government?
Looks that way to me. 43 consecutive executive orders and more
Read the wirepoints story on Pritzker declarimg himself a super hero of democracy i call it his Governors of Democracy declaration GOD for short
Cook county is blue because of the uneducated voters in Chicago and 40% liberal Caucasian women of suburban Chicago
There’s a reserved cell at Gitmo!
When you renew your DL, they automatically register you to vote. They don’t question your citizenship.
You are absolutely correct abt the adult son +videogames + basement living because I have one. tho hasn’t reached incel status yet
I hope they run Pritzker in ‘28 but honestly don’t see it happening. JD would mop the floor with him and expand on Trumps 312 electoral votes.
Just pay the BGD and the Vice Lords to suppress he Black vote. Offer them MJ Hemp stores and maybe legalize brothels - safe and sanitary like they had in Hamburg Germany when the Beatles recording “ ticket to Ride”
As of this morning, the national popular vote stands at 153,117,280, down 5,497,195 from 2020. Trump is up 2,210,535 from 2020; Harris trails Biden by 7,512,794.
2,469,324 of the total drop is in California. Illinois is down 559,622. The Trump vote in Illinois is down 24,749 statewide - which makes the 16K increase in Chicago very interesting.
Just a Civilian (who is watching the numbers very closely)
From the board of elections site it looks like ALL judges were retained. Most with around 75% Yes votes. A few were just above the 60% necessary to be retained.
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