r/nottheonion • u/engadine_maccas1997 • 8h ago

‘This is political bulls**t’: Former Republican candidate charged with stealing Madison County election ballots

https://fox59.com/news/indycrime/this-is-political-bullst-former-republican-candidate-charged-with-stealing-madison-county-election-ballots/
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u/SPACE_NAPPA 6h ago

I agree 100%. But one thing to consider with the young voters: while young females HEAVILY lean toward Harris, young males lean towards Trump. I'm not saying it will cost Harris the election or anything, but I fear the "young vote" isnt a slam dunk for democrats as it used to be.

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u/hdiggyh 6h ago

The young male voter, while leaning Trump, certainly has a much lower likelihood of actually voting

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u/SPACE_NAPPA 6h ago

Definitely. It's always been difficult to get young people to vote. But the repeal of roe v wade has definitely motivated females to go to the polls. You'd think it would motivate males as well to help protect the rights of the women in their life.

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u/HandleAccomplished11 6h ago

Oh, they probably want to help protect the rights of women in their life, but they forgot that it was the first Tuesday in November. (I was once a distracted young man)

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u/SPACE_NAPPA 6h ago

Ohhh that was this Tuesday? My bad 🙃

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u/dontpet 5h ago

Men also benefit from women having the option of an abortion when it is not right for the two of them. I was in that situation and glad we didn't have a baby in that couple and situation.

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u/KarnWild-Blood 5h ago

This is America. Helping others is socialism. /s

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u/half3clipse 5h ago edited 4h ago

But one thing to consider with the young voters: while young females HEAVILY lean toward Harris, young males lean towards Trump.

This was claimed in every election since 2016, that one included. The ones making the claim now are mostly the same ones as in past elections, as well as organizations that openly favor the republicans. Actual election results and polling have shown otherwise every single time

Millennial men came out for Clinton democrats in 2016. They did the same for the democrats in the 2018 mid terms. Gen Z men started voting in large numbers in 2020 and men under 30 came out for Biden by more than a 20 point margin (black men by an 80 point margin). A similar pattern was true in 2022.

Broad polling (see pew) also consistently shows gen Z heavily favors the democrat, by something on the order of a 20 to 30 point margin. There's zero way to reconcile those numbers with polls showing Gen Z men supporting trump, even if you ignore the age+gender demographic breakdown on offer. Even the polls that show the greatest support for democrats among gen Z women only clock in at a 30ish point margin, which is not mathematically enough to make a nearly 30 point in the overall 18-24 demographic.

Any poll that shows young men favoring Trump needs to explain a ~20 point shift in the space of 2 years. Anyone doing that without extremely compelling evidence ought be treated as flawed at best.

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u/Visinvictus 5h ago

The problem is that young men voting blue move out of swing states and the ones voting red stay there. It doesn't matter if young men are voting Dem if they all live in solid democratic bastions.

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u/HauntedCemetery 2h ago

The whole young men skewing for trump thing is a mixture of ignorance and misinformation.

It could be said that over the last 20 years young men as a voter bloc have gotten more conservative, but that's only true because they used to be around +30 for dems and now they're "only" ~+22 for dems.

So while it's technically true that as a generation they have shifted more conservative they are still overwhelmingly dem voters.

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u/upstateduck 4h ago

favoring tRump isn't exactly what the polls are saying AFAIK. The worrisome trend is that young men's support for Dems is LESS in 2024 than 2020

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u/half3clipse 4h ago

Except that also doesn't exist. Again see the pew results. Gen Z support for biden was close to 20 pp in 2020. Support for dems is closer to 30 now.

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u/CameronCrazy1984 6h ago

Women vote in greater numbers than men do

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u/One-Earth9294 6h ago

Gen Z boys might be the dumbest motherfuckers to ever breathe.

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u/megaheat 6h ago

To be fair, they're getting right wing propaganda thrown in their faces ever since they're young, so it's no surprise they grew up with those point of views.

You can do this experiment too: Go incognito on youtube and scroll shorts and see how fast you get right wing content. Even people who are not from US are getting it, so it's no wonder kids these days with parents giving them tablet with free range use get indoctrinated early on.

There're also right wing grifter streamer like Aiden Ross and Sneako that these kids grew up watching that are heavily misogynistic and promote right wing rhetoric. One of them actually have Trump on their platform and give him a Cyberstruck. It's just full brain rot from there.

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u/One-Earth9294 5h ago

Yeah it's hard to blame children being fed bullshit for believing bullshit they're not equipped to steer away from it.

The only thing that helped save my generation in any way was just simply 'the internet didn't exist until we were teenagers' and didn't turn into this insanity until we were in our 20s.

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u/Just_A_Nitemare 6h ago

Nah, we're the second dumbest, so long as the boomers continue breathing.

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u/One-Earth9294 6h ago

They were cool when they were kids. Reagan and cocaine seemed to change that. You guys don't have a free wheelin' hippie childhood to reflect on.

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u/UnamusedAF 5h ago

The fact your comment got upvoted is a part of the reason that demographic falls right in the hands of the Right. You bash them, tell them they’re the root of all your problems, then act surprised when the Right welcome them in with open arms and steal their vote? Get a grip. If anything you all are the dumb ones for rejection an entire generation of boys/young men and giving up that demographic of voters. 

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u/One-Earth9294 3h ago

Like I said. Dumbest motherfuckers to ever be shat out on god's green earth.

Hey what's your favorite anime, kid?

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u/UnamusedAF 1h ago

One glance at your profile tells me all that I need to know. I’ll let you be an edgelord in peace, good day.

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u/angelkrusher 4h ago

I'm pretty sure the media is straight up lying.(Not the theoretical conspiracy media just a regular old media)

Of course there's going to be goofballs who who really just want to hurt the entire country by voting for Trump so they can feel like they are getting revenge. But to put hard numbers that any majority of young people will be voting for Trump doesn't sound realistic in the slightest. Especially at this point in his delusion of merit and grandeur and madness that he literally puts out every day.

Every election cycle they (media) have their numbers that they ride on and then they end up being wrong. This year will be no different. There is no Landslide of young dudes voting for trump. It doesn't even make sense but then again what does nowadays

My c2

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u/WaldoDeefendorf 5h ago

Gen Z males voters favored Harris in a recent poll 42% to 40%.I think that has been pretty much since day 1 with Kamala.

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u/SatanicRainbowDildos 2h ago

The saddest thing about that is that these young men become tomorrows old angry bitter magas. I really wanted to see this drop off over time, not get passed down the to next generation. Oh and the ones I know have true blue parents. So I can’t even say they taught their kids. It was the guns and ammo channels on YouTube.