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Boydog

(718 posts)
Sat Mar 6, 2021, 06:08 PM Mar 2021

"Lucky". by Allen and Parnes

Premise of course is that even though Biden got 81 million votes and a margin of over 7 million popular votes and a healthy electoral vote margin he was still "lucky" to win.
WTF is the reason for a book like this? Glad the Washington Post basically panned it. Why not give Biden credit for being a smart adroit politician who had the spunk to take on a thug like Trump and save our democracy in the process.

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underpants

(182,271 posts)
1. Biden won Georgia Arizona and Wisconsin by a combined 44,000 votes
Sat Mar 6, 2021, 06:14 PM
Mar 2021

Trump won Pennsylvania Michigan and Wisconsin by 75,000 in 2016.

Every election has some lucky breaks and unlucky breaks.
It’s worth noting that Biden flipped 5 states total. That’s very very hard to do let alone against an incumbent.

Boydog

(718 posts)
3. I haven't read the entire book but the excerpts in the
Sat Mar 6, 2021, 06:32 PM
Mar 2021

review are pretty insulting to Biden and for pretty much no good reason.

Boydog

(718 posts)
5. Yes. Reminds me of when Allen was in a breakfast buffet
Sat Mar 6, 2021, 06:38 PM
Mar 2021

Line. A pretty predictable place for him and overheard John Kerry talking on a cell phone and couldn't wait to report it. Pretty damn cheap to say the least.

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