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U.S. Election (Day?) 2024 Megathread

With apologies to our many friends and posters outside the United States... it's time for another one of these! Culture war thread rules apply, and you are permitted to openly advocate for or against an issue or candidate on the ballot (if you clearly identify which ballot, and can do so without knocking down any strawmen along the way). "Small-scale" questions and answers are also permitted if you refrain from shitposting or being otherwise insulting to others here. Please keep the spirit of the law--this is a discussion forum!--carefully in mind.

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Somewhere out there is an Obama-Obama-Trump-Biden-Trump voter and I genuinely want to know what guided that person's voting pattern.

This pattern is old-left, old-left, new-left, right, new-left.

Right-wing (traditionalist/progressive) governments tend to fare much better in a crisis, even if their supporters were the people creating the crisis in the first place. That's why Biden in 2020, because everyone was terrified of the uncommon cold, and his progressive faction had control of the riots that summer.

I genuinely want to know what guided that person's voting pattern.

“I want to be on the winning team”

They vote in accordance with their March Madness bracket, which also always wins.

They've achieved daoist enlightenment and have aligned their desires with the will of heaven, and in doing so can accomplish their goals without effort.

Honestly, just aging and changing priorities.

Just the aging process could explain it

How does aging explain the Trump-Biden-Trump part?

Biden ran as a centrist and seemed moderate at the time, I could see an older person feeling like Trump was too extreme at the time

COVID and George Floyd messed people's brains. "the world is getting crazy with Trump. I wanted change with Trump, but not like this. I'm going to pick hold my nose and vote for the most milquetoast democrat just so nothing happens for 4 years and things can go back to normal"

A realization that the “return to normalcy” promised by Biden was either absolute bullshit or that normalcy was terrible, actually.

Always votes for the oldest candidate in the election.

That's counter to the two Obama votes, though.

Democrat leaning but hates women (what I like to call "the pizzashill") gets you this pattern.

the pizzashill

No one is going to get that reference.

Real dramatard hours over here.

I wouldn’t say no-one

He will always be with us in our hearts. Sloot and the other guy only wishes they could thot patrol as hard as ThePizza