@octothorpe Yeah. There are lots of issues, and I'm wary of people saying "this is why we lost”, but an issue I personally have run into when visiting relatives is that they have thoroughly demonized dems/liberals/etc, so even when they are willing to rant about their own party, "nothing would be as bad as <insert Democrat candidate>”. Deciding between candidates of your party? "That one once complimented a Democrat.”

@octothorpe Dangit, I let this autocomplete with the wrong word. Twice.

@octothorpe A little over 50% doesn't seem "empathetic" to me, but it shouldn't be more than two or three percent (to the extent that it should be any at all), and the *impact* is certainly going to be empathetic.

My understanding has been that the right are much more motivated to turn out, especially in off-year elections. Which is part of why the left is always trying to promote voting and the right suppressing it. (A simplification.)

@octothorpe I've seen that claim made, but it's unclear to me how true it is. If this WaPo article is accurate, it’s looking higher than normal, and not much less than 2020?

(Not sure if that article needs a subscription; my cancelled subscription hasn't yet expired.)

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/11/06/voter-turnout-2024-by-state/

@octothorpe Such a fun tune. And this tidbit was new to me: “Oh, hello Dave, this is Peter Townshend here and I’m sitting with David Gilmour, and we're trying to work out your song 'Save It for Later,' but we can’t work out the tuning.”

https://www.avclub.com/dave-wakeling-on-the-short-successful-fractious-caree-1798232527 /via wikipedia

"Since his training with Buckley, Combs has consistently instructed parents to introduce a touch of peanut butter (mixed with water to avoid a choking risk) as soon as a child is able to eat it. To this day, the thousands of children in East Tennessee lucky enough to have Combs as their pediatrician do not have peanut allergies.”
[…]
"It would take the AAP two years after Lack’s randomized trial was published to reverse its 2000 guidance for pediatricians and parents.”
https://mastodon.scot/@FionaCraig/113396168078634347

"More than 200,000 people had canceled their digital subscriptions by midday Monday […] about 8% of the paper’s paid circulation”

I cancelled; with the groundswell, I hoped to add to a message, and to give the money to a news source with owners not signaling support of or capitulation to a fascist. There’s no way before the election to mend what Bezos did. But the employees are doing important work & are the ones in danger from this fallout. Might resubscribe after.
https://mastodon.social/@harrymccracken/113386796988074620

@octothorpe Insufficient. A billionaire can shrug off a 10% loss of net worth far better than someone with a net worth of $100,000 can. (And it seems that frequently the billionaire manages to pay a lower percentage in taxes — if any.)