• NekoKoneko@lemmy.world
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      17 hours ago

      There’s a bit of shocked Pikachu going on after their relative swing to Trump in 2024. For a while it looked like they were lost to right-wing influencers and a saturated right-propaganda environment, but there’s still hope. I guess we’ll see in a month.

      • CorrectAlias@piefed.blahaj.zone
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        12 hours ago

        Yeah, I’m still hopeful especially because midterms tend to draw a different subset of the voter base.

        Young voters favored Kamala Harris over Donald Trump in the 2024 election by 4 points: 51% to 47%. That was a much smaller margin than young voters gave President Biden over Trump in 2020 (+25), but still by far the strongest support for Harris of any age group in this election.

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        It’s a manosphere issue, so while you’re not off, it was 56% of GenZ men getting lost in the right wing incel movement:

        Young women preferred Harris to Trump by a 17-point margin: 58% to 41%. But young men preferred Trump by a 14-point margin: 56% to 42%.

        (Same source as above)

      • kata1yst@sh.itjust.works
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        17 hours ago

        Mostly that’s the manosphere’s influence unfortunately. Gyms have become a “Third Place” for Gen Z males especially.