How Republicons win, how Democrats win, an important difference ...

[Jeebo]

A Republicon can win the presidency by 537 votes in just one state, losing the national popular vote by a half-million votes and winning the electoral college by the barest possible margin of 270-267 (one D.C. elector abstained to protest against D.C.'s lack of representation in the Senate and House).

But for a Democrat to win the presidency, it takes a seven-million vote margin in the popular vote, and a 74-vote margin in the electoral college (306-232), and then weeks of post-election litigation and arm-pulling by Republicon supporters, and a lot of weeping and wailing and gnashing of teeth by the Democrats and their supporters, before the Democrats finally prevail.

I don't think is what I would call a level playing field, y'all. Just sayin'.

Just to be fair, I should acknowledge that there was post-election litigation after the 2000 election too, but if this election had been that close in favor of the Democratic ticket, the Republicons would have ultimately won, I am sure.They would have found a way to cheat it out. They have a proven and demonstrated ability to win by shameless and brazen cheating, if that's what it takes.

-- Ron

[regnaD kciN]

1. The problem is, even if Trump's coup fails...

...the genie is now out of the bottle -- from here on in, every single election will carry the worry that, this time, partisan officials may intervene to overrule the will of the voters, no matter how clearly that may have been expressed. And the first time they succeed in doing so, you can be sure that those in power will continue to do so in each and every election when they can't win fairly.

We may get President Biden in the White House this time, but that isn't enough. We also need laws that will clearly prevent officials from imposing their own will over that of their citizens, or this will happen over and over until it finally succeeds -- and that will be the death knell for the United States as a democracy.

[StClone]

2. White Privilege Party

Need to prove you are twice as good to be seen as barely equal, and even then it is not accepted.