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regnaD kciN

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5. "They don't make landslides like they used to..."

Reply to Bleacher Creature (Original post)

Thu Dec 3, 2020, 06:49 PM

Dec 2020

It's sobering that the most successful candidate of this millennium only managed slightly under 53%. With popular vote margins so thin, there's an ever-increasing potential for the electoral college "winner" to be, on a regular basis, the candidate who came in second. We might as well just flip a coin.

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