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I don't think that's accurate.

Because of how the electoral college works, some people in deeply Republican states could correctly assume that their individual vote simply wouldn't matter.

I don't know if such reasoning swung the election or not. I imagine some political pollsters have a better sense of it.

I didn't vote because I live in a deep blue district in a deep blue state, Harris was a joke of a candidate, and I couldn't be bothered to update my voter registration after a recent move. Given my participation would have had zero impact on the outcome, I decided to spend my time on other things.

From what I hear, many people in blue states made the same calculation.

I would guess more like "I hate them both" or "I'm too busy just trying to take care of my family to care about politics". There was also a contingent of "Trump sucks, but I hate the way Biden is handling Gaza". Plus a big chunk of "burn it all down so we can try something new".

In other words, 2/3 of people were ok with this.