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I remember watching a clip from Jimmy Kimmel on YouTube where they asked people on the street in LA whether they planned to vote in the 2024 presidential election. The twist was that they were doing this one day AFTER the election. It was so disappointing to see that many young people had no idea that the election was over and yet they said they planned to vote. One guy even asked who was running.

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I would envy the person who can live in the US and be unaware a presidential election was yesterday...

Like, they start running ads 18 months ahead of it... How do you miss all of those ads

This is likely because for many young people the only source of news is social media. And they are unlikely to be targeted to see the political ads.

Interestingly, occasionally I see political ads on Willow.tv which I use to watch Cricket. And most of these ads have Noem threatening to deport people ("if you are here illegally, we are coming after you..."). I am a US citizen.

on top of that, you need to register as a voter in many places and that process ends months before the actual ballots come. These aren't things they teach in most schools (nor their parents, apparently).

Yeah totally bonkers. In general, most people severely underestimate how long the government agencies take to process something.

Presidential ads run in swing states. Not in California, whose delegates are a foregone conclusion.

Californians are hassled for political donations, not votes.

There are more of them in swing states.

But the internet is full of them for quite some time, I would expect them to see some of those

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