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The defeat of the Democratic Party is even worse than it first seemed, and that was bad enough.
The reports of presidential voting mostly deal with percentages — the percentage each candidate won by, compared with other elections.
But we should be looking at numbers, not percentages. Numbers are hard facts. Much more than percentages they tell the truth clearly.
And the truth of this election is that many voters stayed home. They were so down on both candidates that they just didn’t vote for either one.
This was more true for voters in Democratic areas than in those places that voted for Trump. A recent article in Minnesota Reformer shows that in Hennepin County this election there were 35,000 fewer voters than in 2020, despite increases in population. And this was the year so often proclaimed as presenting the most important election of our lifetime!
The same article shows that in the nine counties Kamala Harris carried in Minnesota, there were 54,000 fewer votes than in 2020. In the remaining counties (78 out of 87) that went for Donald Trump, there were more voters (27,000) than four years ago.
