Data from Google Trends shows that the search query "Did Joe Biden drop out?" spiked in the United States on November 6 - despite the outgoing president dropping out nearly five months ago and endorsing vice president Kamala Harris, who ended up unsuccessfully helming the ticket.
While it's far too soon to tell how outsize a role these sorts of disengaged or "low-information" voters played in Trump's win, polls and analyses from before Biden dropped out indicated that the infamous GOP nominee was more popular among that set than the current president.
"The information bubbles are not liberal vs. conservative; they are paying attention vs. not paying attention." This highlights a significant divide in the electorate's knowledge and engagement.
This not only leads to disengagement at the polls, but opens the door for the kinds of misinformation and discord that can undermine democratic processes.
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