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Skin Color on the Ballot — Again.
America recalibrates.
While Democrats fume over November’s loss and seek a new center, voters reflect, is this who we are? a nation following — not equal representation — familiarity?
Where did Harris improve over Biden (2020) levels?
White collar, college education level voters.
100k plus income level voters
Where did Harris depart from Biden (2020) levels?
Blue collar, high school education level voters.
Latino, particularly men.
White, all groups.
These were national trends. All the above outcomes were across the country and included many “non-swing states” — New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Rhode Island. For Trump, Georgia and Pennsylvania, it turned out, were just icing on the cake.
The ‘Blue Wall’ not only didn’t hold, it evaporated.
Notable was the Michigan Senate race where Congresswoman Elisse Slotkin, Democrat favorite to retain Debbie Stabenow’s seat, narrowly edged out Mike Rogers, who trailed her right up until the last few weeks of the campaign, when Betsy DeVos, former Trump appointed DOE Secretary, who quit the Trump cabinet after June 6, dropped 1M in late ad buys.
