• GhostTheToast@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    <places tin foil hat on>

    As someone from Kentucky, I could’ve sworn that I saw reports coming out that the margin McConnell was winning by in some rural counties was higher than the ratio of registered Republicans to Democrats. Implying that a large swath of rural democrats were voting for McConnell. Now, I don’t claim to know every democrat in the state. However, every democrat I met hates the guy and a lot of republicans hold their nose voting for him.

    Also as quickly as I saw those reports, they vanished. Myriad of reasons to explain things, but sure seems odd, right?

    <Removes tinfoil>

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      1 month ago

      I mean, I’m not saying it’s not possible, but it seems like this could happen by Democrats not turning out to vote as much as their Republican counterparts in those areas.

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      1 month ago

      Okay, I’m glad you said you saw reports about that too. It’s where my conspiracy theory started, but then there hasn’t been anything since so I genuinely gas lighted myself.

      Hell it could be that there wasn’t anything there to report on, but it did disappear quickly and quietly.