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Womp womp you got what you voted for..
Texas had more votes for Kamala than New York; Texas had 4.8M democrat voters, while New York only had 4.6M. Believe it or not, most states are fairly purple, and the elections largely depend on a small amount (less than 10%) of swing voters. Republican states have also largely relied on voter suppression to disenfranchise blue voters, rather than trying to grab the swing votes.
It's more like gerrymandering. Eh, if they dont want to do anything about it, then they get what they deserve. There's a reason it's the One-Star State.
Also, Texas population is 32~ million to New York 20~ million.
https://progresstexas.org/blog/redistricting-update-what-do-new-gerrymandered-texas-maps-look
Gerrymandering doesn’t factor into presidential elections, because presidential elections don’t use districts. Gerrymandering only affects local and state elections. It’s how all of the crazy house reps have rock solid seats, for instance. But on the presidential scale, it’s voter suppression and swing voters, combined with presidential candidates focusing their time in expected swing states to reach that magic 270 electoral college votes.
"Texas has 38 electoral votes: One for each of the 36 congressional districts and 2 at large for our two U.S. senators. It is worth noting electoral college controversy has come into play before. The election of 1876, electing President Rutherford B. Hayes, was one of the most contentious. Hays lost the popular vote, but he defeated Samuel Tilden by one electoral vote."
https://www.kxan.com/news/an-in-depth-look-at-how-the-texas-electoral-college-votes/
I suggest you read the article you actually posted, because it supports what I said. Whoever wins the state gets all 38 electoral votes. It’s not like a 51/49 split has the votes split. Whoever gets 51% wins all of the electoral college votes. The congressional districts are gerrymandered to hell, but that’s because they determine house reps. Just like I said.
Ah yes, all the 9-year-old girls who voted for Trump…
He was obviously referring to the adults in the state, not the children.
The adults in the state were not the ones affected in this instance. Unfortunately.
Parents tend to be impacted when their children die. Dying themselves is often preferable.
I mean there was that idiot that said he didn't regret not vaccinating his child that died from measles.
I’m not sure why fucktards downvoted you, because you’re right.
Womp womp, parents not effected by losing their children due to poor public services they voted for.
Oh well then that's just so much better, huh?
You are a real asshole if you think anyone deserves to have their children drown to death.
For the parents - I won't say so much that they deserved as much as it was predictable based on the long voting history of the state. The children really didn't deserve it, though.
Saying “long voting history of the state” is a gross misunderstanding of Texas. Every major city here votes blue. We are so heavily gerrymandered that we get screwed every election. Texas is a sleeper swing state. I know because I live here.
Our local and state elections are 100% gerrymandered, but the presidential doesn’t use districts. Instead, republicans have focused on suppressing blue votes. Things like shutting down voting locations in blue areas, so people in blue areas need to travel farther, and wait times at the remaining locations are 6-8 hours, instead of minutes. Making it illegal to hand out water to people waiting in line. Voter ID laws, to bar people who can’t afford the fees+time off work to get an ID. Plenty of others too, but those are the big ones. Usually they use the “ensuring the integrity of the election” messaging to justify it, but it’s really about eliminating blue votes.
Meh. There’s consequences to our actions.
I voted against Trump but if something bad happened because of him in my state, some absolutely trash human being would still say the exact same thing about me.
Be better.