In time for my deadline (so to speak) of Monday, November 11, 2024, there are still some election races not called. The electoral map, for Election 2024, is now complete. I predicted correctly.
Donald Trump was re-elected to a second non-consecutive term. This is the second time in history this has occurred after Grover Cleveland won his elections in 1884 and 1892. As he did in 2016, Trump`s second-term win is a Republican pickup.
Effective Sunday, November 10, 2024 at 04:30 p.m. ET, and according to Wikipedia, Trump won the U.S. Popular Vote with 50.42% vs. Kamala Harris with 47.82%. A percentage-points margin of R+2.60. This bares in mind not all states are 100 percent in. Trump’s final percentage-points margin is likely +2 to +3.
All states are projected. Trump carried 31 states, plus Maine’s 2nd Congressional District, with an electoral-vote score of 312. (The pickups appear, on the map, in Light Shade.)
Given the fact no prior election’s electoral map has ever been later duplicated, the difference between the maps for Trump’s two terms are with Nebraska’s 2nd Congressional District (2016) and Nevada (2024).
The likely Tipping-Point State is Pennsylvania. This is based on ranking all states for their percentage-points margins (whether or not carried). The Keystone State is apparently where Trump reached 270 electoral votes. It is his No. 29 best state. In fact, since 2012 Pennsylvania has ranked the Republicans’s No. 29 best state. (For Democrats, it has been their No. 22.) Republicans nowadays hit their Tipping-Point State at No. 28 or No. 29. (For Democrats, their No. 22 or No. 23.) Pennsylvania, allocated with 19 electoral votes, is Trump’s 287th electoral vote. Coming in at No. 30 is Michigan, for a cumulative 302 electoral votes. Ranking No. 31 is Wisconsin, for the final electoral-vote score of 312.
Once again, the Rust Belt Trio—Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Wisconsin—carried for the winner. They retain their status as the nation’s Top Bellwether States. This is the fifth consecutive cycle—2008, 2012, 2016, 2020, and 2024—in which all three carried for a United States presidential election winner.
I enjoyed having participated on the Election Night coverage on Due Dissidence. I viewed it again. The purpose is to take in how well I handled myself. Perhaps I did OK. Without experience, I cannot have the polish that is there with co-hosts Keaton Weiss and Russell Dobular. But there is much to say about having experience. I contributed…and that is why I was there. And I thank this site’s regulars for having suggested I say “yes” to their invitation.
This week’s topic will not cover too many details of Election 2024 outcomes, as there is so much to consider, because I choose this week to focus on the overall outcome.
It is time for me to give my reaction.
I am satisfied.
I am very pleased—make that delighted—the 2024 Democrats became electorally defeated and unseated.
This overall outcome was absolutely necessary.
(I applaud the voters in my birth city, Dearborn, for denying Harris/Democrats their votes with an effort to help make sure Team Blue would not be able to win a 2020-to-2024 hold for the state of Michigan. Due to the genocide in Gaza, voters held accountable the Joe Biden–Kamala Harris administration.)
The Democrats have become an arrogant and destructive cult.
The last election cycle in which I voted for any person affiliated with the Democratic Party was in 2014. Election Day was Tuesday, November 4, 2014. In this current year, Election Day was held Tuesday, November 5, 2024. When that date arrived, a full ten years had passed since I last voted for a Democrat.
This is good.
I made the correct decision.
I am relieved that I have enough inner strength to have made this happen—and stick.
The Democratic Party lost me in 2016. I have at least four reasons why: 1. Rigged Primaries; 2. McCarthyism [RussiaGate]; 3. Anti-Choice [The Jab]; 4. Censorship.
It certainly does not stop there. But, really, the first listed item was already enough for me. And I take my voting personally. (How could I not?)
After viewing numerous post-election videos—such as livestreams—the one which really spoke to where I am coming from (but not being expressed by me in words appearing on this site) was on Racket News. This is from Matt Taibbi. The more astute take on all this is by co-host Walter Kirn. In the first few minutes, Kirn says of the Democratic Party [and party establishment], “But, Matt…I don’t care about their Cope. I don’t care about the Coming Lens to replace the Fascist Lens or to augment the Hitler Lens—to supplant the loss of Status Lens. Because I don’t care about anything they say. That’s the final triumph.…”
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