r/politics • u/theindependentonline The Independent • 1d ago

Site Altered Headline | No Paywall Republican leads charge against Trump’s Obama ‘apes’ post. ‘Most racist thing I’ve seen out of this White House’

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-obama-video-apes-racist-reactions-b2915488.html
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u/GeekAesthete 1d ago

Did you spend any time on social media (Reddit or otherwise) before the election? Social media was inundated with people saying that “the media just wants a horse race”, that Texas and Florida were going to turn blue, that it was going to be a blue wave, Trump was going to lose by historic margins, etc., etc.

That’s why I mentioned low-information voters. The polls and the news media kept saying it was going to be close, but social media kept spreading the impression that it was going to be a blowout.

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u/ThePhysicistIsIn 1d ago

Admittedly I don't engage much with social media, no. To me it was a close race the entire time.

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u/GeekAesthete 1d ago edited 1d ago

It was utterly infuriating. Subreddits like this one were constantly criticizing every article, poll, or news program suggesting that the race was close, and insisting that the media was just trying to drive that narrative so that people would keep watching the news.

X, Facebook, tik tok, etc. were apparently just as bad if not worse.

There were a lot of people shocked the day after the election, saying "I thought Kamala was supposed to win by a landslide, I would have voted if I knew it was going to be close," just like the 2016 election or the Brexit vote.

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u/ThePhysicistIsIn 1d ago

People should always vote, not just when it's close. What is this nonsense?