Wait... What? Folks In Red States Google Searched 'How To Change My Vote' In Droves After Trump's Victory
Wait... What? Folks In Red States Google Searched 'How To Change My Vote' In Droves After Trump's Victory
Iowa had the highest number of people searching how to change their votes.
i fucking called it.
https://lemmy.world/comment/13331955
turns out the answer to my question is “less than a week”
Reminds me of Brexit
Oh cmon, Russian money wasn’t involved in… Oh OHH
“Post not found”
Edit: works in browser, only broken in Voyager. Weird.
I’m on Voyager and can see it. They pushed a new update the day before yesterday, and a few things broke for me till I updated (inline images).
Updating your app might fix it.
Bloody hell, this is the US version of Brexit... this world would be such a better place if people just did the bare minimum of reading into what they were actually voting for before they fucking voted!
Also, seeing the other top searches being about the tariffs would have me creasing if it weren't so disappointingly stupid that these peoole seemingly knew nothing about Trumps most advertised economic policy before (assumably) voting for him
Whenever I see all the trash on the side of the road, I know why the world is that way.
No, the US version of Brexit was Trump's first term, since they both happened in the same year.
This is just people saying they know exactly how bad Brexit went the first time and they want that again.
I think that most of them do a lot of reading. The problem is that they just read news and info that they like and have no ability to criticise arguments. Critic thinking is the main problem imho.
Post election searches are the best:
"What is the EU?"
"What is Brexit?"
Of course, let's not let things like knowledge or consequences get in the way of reactionary & spiteful arrogance informed only by propaganda induced fear and hate, emotions know to prevent rational thought /s
"what is love?" (baby don't hurt me)
The article claims "in droves" then doesn't give a number, or even an estimate.
Yeah, because google is vague.
Not sure what "100" means, but that's what it peaked at.
That is a percentage score. So you take the highest level of searches and it will always be 100% and all lesser scores are in comparison to that score of 100(%). If you can find out what the actual number of searches are for that one score, you can derive the approximate number of searches in the other places. It shows an informational tool tip on desktop.
Here are a couple comparisons that maybe give it more relevance:
100 means that’s when the searches hit their most popular peak while 0 means nothing was really searched. Google trends does not show actual search volumes.
Google Trends looks at search terms compared with all searches done (in a specific geographic region and time point). That data is then normalized.
It’s essentially looking at popularity trends of is this hot or not.
Source: I am a former SEO
Edit: here are specifics about what I mentioned above if you’re curious.
But droves though. Droves.
It could have been droves... it also could have been 10 people. It also doesn't say which way they wanted to change their vote. It could all be LIV's who learned something they didn't know after voting early or it could have been people torn about their vote panicking and seeing if they could change their mind.
This doesn't tell you anything but people searched it and not how many.
The relative numbers are worth little without knowing the underlying numbers. If it went from 100 to 700 people, that is still negligble. Also crazy how people immediately take that as a base to remove voters rights unless they pass some sort of test. Nothing could go wrong with stripping voters rights amirite?
"How to unsink the Titanic"
You broke it, you bought it.
Yeah except we're all going to pay.
America even does socialism the worst
Unfortunately, I’m also being forced to buy it, even though I didn’t break it.
I tried to buy the other one because I didn’t want the broken one. Still stuck buying the broken one.
I'm willing to give a redo in this case
How are people this stupid?something in the water?
Lead... I'm not kidding.
Don't forget pesticide exposure which eventually has similar effects to lead over time: decreased intelligence and increased aggression
Some 'murican cities are unironically trying to get rid of fluoride from water. You know, the thing that also goes in toothpaste and is overall good for keeping teeth healthy
RFK Jr, who is likely to be our new head of health and human services, wants to ban it nationally.
Unfortunately RFK isn't all wrong on this one. Recent evidence is showing it is indeed linked to neurological issues... Furthermore the effects are kind of negated by fluoride in the toothpaste.
The long-awaited report released Wednesday comes from the National Toxicology Program, part of the Department of Health and Human Services. It summarizes [...] that drinking water containing more than 1.5 milligrams of fluoride per liter is consistently associated with lower IQs in kids.
[...]
Since 2015, federal health officials have recommended a fluoridation level of 0.7 milligrams per liter of water, and for five decades before the recommended upper range was 1.2. The World Health Organization has set a safe limit for fluoride in drinking water of 1.5.
https://apnews.com/article/fluoride-water-brain-neurology-iq-0a671d2de3b386947e2bd5a661f437a5
These margins are razor thin.
You're not swallowing toothpaste. I don't know enough about the effects of fluoride to agree or disagree with the removal. Being a guy with healthy teeth, a ...few years under his belt and living on well water for damn near all of them, I'm pretty comfortable saying leave it in the toothpaste where it'll have fewer unintended consequences
Years of GOP meddling with education, which is only gonna nose dive when dept of education gets dismantled
Once again, these are the a validation headlines that create and support echo chambers. Honestly, what does it matter now?
We already know the regret is strong on this nation and will only get worse.
God I fucking hate humans
Is this the "Find out" stage then?
Actions have consequences. Sad people had to figure it out this way.
Sad others among us will have to pay more than those that caused the problem. But such is America and so is history.
To own the libs, they sold their soul.
I wonder how many of these people are just now realizing that they have immediate family and friends who won’t be here next Christmas.
Or they, themselves, might wind up getting deported or killed. We've successfully eroded class and even group consciousness.
"womp womp"
Considering all of the shocking things Trump promised to do once he was elected, people are re-evaluating what they have gotten themselves into.
Sigh...
The republican anti-education campaign bears fruit I see.
Something is seriously wrong with civics education in this country. People in power have no incentive to fix it. At least naturalized citizens have to take a fairly stringent test.
I do not put it past Russia to troll us like this
Doesn't the article specify where the searches come from?
go sit in a corner, and think about what you just posted
Russian disinformation groups can probably route their traffic trough US computers they hacked to spoof the IP address.
I love it. America’s last hope and people failed. Fuck this place. Let the civil war begin.
What ya'll upset for now? The economy was so good under Trump! Didn't you want him to deport all those "poisonous" immigrants. He's your retribution. And, besides, it's not like Harris would have been any better, because they're the same anyway.
/s
Are we all just assuming these searches are from people who regret their votes and hoped to be able to change it?
I double checked my ballot before submitting it, with full knowledge that irrevocability is the price of anonymity. Nevertheless, I might use similar search terms if I was curious how many other voters, possibly in other states or with different political alignments, had written about regretting their votes. Or, perhaps, ... if I was doing research for a post-election article about the topic.
That's a great point. The Trump team tried to get all voter information from all states in 2020. Ostensibly to verify voter fraud. But this data was probably used to create such voter suppression systems as Eagle AI.
So they know who you voted for.
This is all bullshit, designed to start another wave of outrage. Even after the election, we've gotta have more stuff to rage about. News these days is just rage all day every day, no matter what.
I've said it the whole election cycle. The news downplayed every Trump gaffe because they wanted him back to fuel the outrage click machine. They wanted that sweet revenue back after 4 boring years of Biden just ya know doing his fucking job.
I don’t know how trustworthy these search trends are. For example if you type in “where did I put my” it will complete all kinds of stuff like “keys” and “wallet” and “passport” which seems to imply that people are regularly asking Google where they placed items in their own house.
The searches spike after every election and this one was no different than any other year.
Compared to shrimp scampi, an example search I stole from another thread on this topic, it's pretty clear the searches are meaningless and not tied to this particular result.
I honestly think we should have a 20 question multiple choice basic 8th grade civics quiz before people are allowed to vote. We no longer have an electorate that's informed enough to be capable of voting. Score 60% or higher on that quiz or get the fuck out of the booth.
Edit: I'm incorrect, there's no national requirement that I can find. In CA we can't finish 8th grade without studying and passing a civics test covering this material: https://www.ixl.com/standards/california/social-studies/grade-8. So yeah, I amend my opinion - these standards should be followed nationwide.
So completely disenfranchise the poor and working class whose education system has been purposefully destroyed by the ruling class, and only let the ruling class vote?
Or maybe actually give them a civics education? I'm behind a free online basic civics class every 2y that gets you a $250 credit on your taxes or something. There has to be a reason to actually take it and pay attention.
"How to de-extinct the dodo"
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What annoying about this information is that we can't say who did that. Is it Harris to trump or trump to Harris or those who voted for other options.
I think we can reason that its more than likely trump to harris. Not just because trump is a terrible person and lies about everything. But mainly because trump won so what need would there be to change a vote from anything else to trump?
You underestimate how much people want to be part of "the winning side".
Especially now with how Trump treated those against him
I want to see searches of "is it too late to cast my vote?"
Probably queers who are afraid of getting locked in concentration camps trying to go back in the closet out of self preservation tbqh