Breakdown of total votes for all candidates for 2024 Election
Breakdown of total votes for all candidates for 2024 Election
Or at least all the candidates counted with the dataset I could find
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Really surprised that Claudia de la Cruz overtook Cornel West so significantly
same reason republicans vote for Trump instead of neocon Democrats: why go for the generic brand when you've got the real thing?
Pretty big chunk of white left leaning libs would go for PSL but not West. I probably would've gone for him if he wasn't kicked out of the race in my state.
Pretty big chunk of white left leaning libs would go for PSL but not West.
Why do you think that?
Because he believes in systemic white supremacy in the US. Beyond people that actually read theory (tiny minority), black liberation has not been a popular issue for white people since 1865. Fucking California just voted to keep prison slavery
I'm not sure you'd find a PSL chapter that doesn't either. It's in the main party program
Because he believes in systemic white supremacy in the US.
You think De la Cruz does not?
Respectfully, I’m not sure I agree. He has explicitly rejected Marxism. He also will occasionally throw out a bad take here and there (he had some particularly bad ones in the aftermath of Oct 7). I like him, and I know someone who knows him and he seems pretty awesome. I would vote for him over Jill Stein, for sure. But if I have the chance to vote for an explicitly ML party or someone who is not a Marxist, I will choose the ML party every time.
I think I'm mostly surprised because he's received quite a bit of media attention, or at least he did for a minute but I guess if he didn't even make it on the ballot in some places that would obviously affect the numbers
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Makes sense; I know a lot of people vote based on vibes and I just remember that he got a decent amount of media exposure and "communist bad" so that's why i was surprised