The Democratic Party Faces a Voter Registration Crisis

[HumpDayHoratio]

While that's very true it goes way beyond that. The media is I suppose luke warm all things said on social issues. They kinda get behind Pride month. They get behind Christmas Season which at least where I live starts about three days before Halloween. Once they are through selling costumes and the candy is on the discount rack they go straight to Christmas. The only time in recent history I've seen a mildly positive media wide acknowledgement of Hannukah was that one year it decided to overlap with Thanksgiving. I know its a "floating" Holiday and it roams between late November and late December but it seems to usually roughly align with Christmas.

By contrast while its mostly Fox and thus far Trump has been silent on the subject (give it time) I have to deal with a few months of the legendary war on Christmas. Maybe this year someone dared show Adam Saddler's 'Eight Crazy Nights'. There might have been a story on CNN about how the oil shouldn't have lasted a day during the siege but it lasted for eight fucking nights. Yes thanks to INCLUSIVE studies when I was still in elementry school I'm passingly aware of what Hanukkah is and isn't.

I don't see the media doing much backing of Sanders, Warren or AOC. They are somewhat positive when they mention all of them but none of them are just in the news for existing and when they are its usually the Right screeching about how health care will bankrupt America.

Our country is so fucking right wing as a whole that the media is smeared as being liberal just because they aren't openly bigotted. Like they can be low key bastards but as long as they keep it low key its fine.

Reasonable people can disagree on who’s left&right in the media (although I can easily show bias on the left), but you did hit the nail on the head with the above post. This has always been a center-right country. It’s because of the media many think it’s center-left or left.

I don’t have time today to go into it further but will revisit when I have time.

 

[BabyBoomer50s]

So you do.

Thanks.

My thread is not this

Lame attempt to deflect from the decline in Dem registration but I encourage you and all Dems to keep doing it.

 

[HumpDayHoratio]

Yep. Nothing for Dems to worry about in irrelevant states like Arizona, Nevada, North Carolina, and Pennsylvania. And of course the NYT has been “taken over by Trump lackeys.” Lol

From what I understand the “Blue Wall” states wont be enough to carry the day for dems. That disturbance in the Force? It’s real.

 

[YDB95]

Yep. Nothing for Dems to worry about in irrelevant states like Arizona, Nevada, North Carolina, and Pennsylvania.

We'll see how things look after the midterm elections

And of course the NYT has been “taken over by Trump lackeys.” Lol

To the extent that it didn't already favor Republicans to begin with.

 

[BabyBoomer50s]

From what I understand the “Blue Wall” states wont be enough to carry the day for dems. That disturbance in the Force? It’s real.

Things can change quickly, but right now Dems are in the soup wrt voter registration and fundraising.

 

[ll74]

Lame attempt to deflect from the decline in Dem registration but I encourage you and all Dems to keep doing it.

Lol
Not deflection.

 

[HisArpy]

From what I understand the “Blue Wall” states wont be enough to carry the day for dems. That disturbance in the Force? It’s real.

Complacency is our enemy. Not only in believing that the outcome of the election is a done deal, but also in making the people comfortable in the current political/societal climate. If voters are complacent they might go back to voting for those who promise bread and circuses.

 

[Sean Renaud]

Reasonable people can disagree on who’s left&right in the media (although I can easily show bias on the left), but you did hit the nail on the head with the above post. This has always been a center-right country. It’s because of the media many think it’s center-left or left.

I don’t have time today to go into it further but will revisit when I have time.

I don't think anybody holds any illusions that we are center left or left. Calling us center right is actually being incredibly generous. Religion is one of our big diseases and yes its a mental disease for a lack for better terms. There is a reason why we have to fight over gay marriage which really doesn't affect anybody except I guess that one baker. Its interesting when you look into the history of the government being involved in marriage and a lot of it was a control factor trying to keep interracial from being a thing. ITs not the only reason but man we just can't catch a break.

This is why we have to deal with creationists. I remember when Bush banned stem cell research and now we've got RFK fighting MRNA research. We'll see how that actually plays out but science is a bit of a funny thing when take a step back. It doesn't grow in a linear fashion that can easily be predicted. I could bring up all sorts of examples but my favorite two are vehicles and computers. Trains were invented in the mid 19th century. The first cars were a little later and the first planes were early 20th century. A few years back (I want to say 2021 but don't quote me the date isn't actually important) a space craft brought back a piece of an asteroid and people do not have a proper appreciation for how compliated that actually is. Nobody cared. I think the last time anybody was remotely impressed with space travel was probably Challenger. Sure people paid attention to Bezos, Musk and Katy PErry but it wasn't because we were impressed with them getting into space. It was mostly "you don't have something better to do with your money?!

The other is obviously computers. I think you're a little older than me. You probably remember when computers were green and black and we thought Pac-man was the fucking shit. Today well go look at your cell phone. My point here is there is no way at all to predict how far back a four or eight year gap in research puts us Maybe its completely negligible and maybe we're decades back.

We have to deal with this on abortion and sex ed. You can look state by state or country by country if you prefer. The numbers clearly show that educated people make better decisions. Which leads to fewer unwanted/teen pregnancies and thus fewer abortions.

Now of course if we're being honest its not about anything but controlling women. An HPV vaccine came out in the 2010s (I think. I know it was Pre Covid and post Obama but that's a twelve year window. Conservatives made it crystal clear that given a choice between their daughters having slightly safer sex and not having cancer that their lives are forfiet.

I'll even go out on a bit of a limb here and say they are also a major factor in fighting against green as a whole. I'm not here to debate any singular part. I've seen plenty of people state we cannot destroy what God made or some variation on the planet will survive. Well yeah we lack the tech to destroy the Earth and it would be really, really difficult even to wipe out human life. Thing is I shouldn't need to argue that setting a river on fucking fire is bad. I remember the before and after pics of the Olympics in China. I shouldn't be able to see the fucking air.

I will repeat I'm not arguing that the media is fairly liberal if we are talking social issues. They don't seem to genuinely give too much of a shit about the environment. They don't hype oil but outside of entertainment media (which should absolutely be discussed) they don't really push too much for anything that would improve the situation. On economics you would have to make one helluva an argument that they even consistently pay lip service. Some how Bernie Sanders is one of or the most liked Senator but I only see him a few times a year when he once again asks for my money. Elizabeth Warren I see . . .when Trump wants to be a racist which admittedly is more frequent than I would like and AOC I really only see mentioned by right wingers. Then there is Ilhan Omar but there were four of them to start with and I honestly can't name the other two off the top of my hea. When I googled them a few months back apparently there were eventually double digits of Squaddies.

Yet the media doesn't cover them. I should qualify this with saying SOME of that is for whatever reason conservatives have a much firmer understanding of modern tech, media, new media and social media. I don't understand why for the life of me. I would have expected that to be the opposite given conservatives are older but. . .yeah. There was a chart I'll see if I can find it that showed right wing new media vs left. And JESUS, News Max alone has more reach than nearly every Left wing source combined and that was before the Left abandoned TYT so the numbers are probably more skewed today.

I'm sure Obama has a twitter handle. I remember they basically had to pry his Blackberry away from him but I basically see Trump, Boebert, MTG used to be on there a lot and obviously there are others but those are the big players.

 

[Chernosoth]

the NYT is among the numerous publications lately taken over by Trump lackeys.

NYT tries to stay with majority opinion so it can say it's the paper/site of record. As an old dying media institution it can lag behind for a while, but it will generally and eventually notice what is obvious to the rest of the nation.

 

[wallstreetguy]

Every day of 47 is like a holiday for America. I just listened to a podcast where the Dems were practically in tears trying to understand how 2 million people flipped GOP nationwide in a year. They got super upset when the pollsters pointed out a large percentage was latino followed by black males.
God bless America!

 

[Sean Renaud]

Every day of 47 is like a holiday for America. I just listened to a podcast where the Dems were practically in tears trying to understand how 2 million people flipped GOP nationwide in a year. They got super upset when the pollsters pointed out a large percentage was latino followed by black males.
God bless America!

Yeah don't trust those podcasts. It is terrifying that a large percentage or Latinos and Black males betrayed themselves but it seems that Latinos have learned their lesson. I fear for black men things are going to need to get much worse before they get smarter.

 

[wallstreetguy]

Yeah don't trust those podcasts. It is terrifying that a large percentage or Latinos and Black males betrayed themselves but it seems that Latinos have learned their lesson. I fear for black men things are going to need to get much worse before they get smarter.

Thanks, White Savior! I will tell my friends and family to get back on the hacienda because the caudillo told us to!
Puta madre
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/20/us/politics/democratic-party-voter-registration-crisis.html
Key voting trends in the 2024 election

• Democratic support eroded: The share of Latino voters backing the Democratic presidential candidate fell from 61% in 2020 to 51% in 2024.
• Trump's gains: Donald Trump's share of the Hispanic vote was 48% in 2024, a 12-point increase from 2020. Exit polling data also indicated significant Republican gains among Latino men.
• Gender divide: While Trump's support increased among both Latino men and women in 2024, a notable gender gap persisted. 43% of Latino men voted for Trump, compared to 32% of Latinas, according to the American Electorate Voter Poll.

 

[Sean Renaud]

Thanks, White Savior! I will tell my friends and family to get back on the hacienda because the caudillo told us to!
Puta madre
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/20/us/politics/democratic-party-voter-registration-crisis.html
Key voting trends in the 2024 election

• Democratic support eroded: The share of Latino voters backing the Democratic presidential candidate fell from 61% in 2020 to 51% in 2024.
• Trump's gains: Donald Trump's share of the Hispanic vote was 48% in 2024, a 12-point increase from 2020. Exit polling data also indicated significant Republican gains among Latino men.
• Gender divide: While Trump's support increased among both Latino men and women in 2024, a notable gender gap persisted. 43% of Latino men voted for Trump, compared to 32% of Latinas, according to the American Electorate Voter Poll.

Yes I 'm aware the Latino voters moved away from Democrats. It was a foolish move and they are paying for it. We'll see next year if the punishment for stupidity was bad enough to get it through their skulls. IT should be higher than 61% but you really can't fight religion. It causes brain rote.

I'm aware of the gender divide which was always pretty much there but that makes sense. The patriarchy is real and nobody who is winning a game ever votes to alter the rules to be more equitable. That's just not what people do.