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rocktivity

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31. DING DING DING! Progee, you're our grand prize winner!
Wed Feb 3, 2021, 01:56 PM
Feb 2021

Last edited Wed Mar 6, 2024, 11:54 AM - Edit history (39)

Imagine what would have been the outcome if there had been no pandemic.

I imagine that it would have been a replay of 2016, with most people voting in person by machine, and just enough machine votes in the swing states getting flipped to Trump without arousing suspicion.

But in concert with Trump exposing his incompetence, bigotry, and flair for self-serving despotism, his handling of the pandemic took away mass in-person machine voting as a viable option, resulting in nearly 70% of the total vote being cast by mail-in or early request ballot. THAT'S why Trump immediately declared war on the postal service: out of fear that mail-in voters would comprise the real "landslide majority."

I also imagine that your 42,800 "margin of victory" votes out of the 11 million AZ/GA/WI votes cast for Biden or Trump would have been a LOT easier to flip if only thirty rather than seventy percent of them had been cast by mail.


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He didn't even have to do *well* with handling COVID, he just had to make an EFFORT. bearsfootball516 Feb 2021 #1
I dunno about 'cruised' - Boden still would have moonscape Feb 2021 #3
Biden was winning no matter what IMO Johnny2X2X Feb 2021 #9
And he could still have done it in a horrible, bigoted way unblock Feb 2021 #6
Had he only advocated mask-wearing Rorey Feb 2021 #8
Exactly! The American People Are Remarkably Forgiving - And Remarkably Stupid As Well. panfluteman Feb 2021 #26
"It is unclear if Trump has seen the report." catbyte Feb 2021 #2
That line jumped out at me, too PJMcK Feb 2021 #4
And if he did see it, read it and could understand it, we know the next verse - "Fake News"... yonder Feb 2021 #13
It's also a sure bet Trump hasn't read the report if he isn't the hero of every paragraph gratuitous Feb 2021 #23
Stop the Steal wackos need to see this. PA Democrat Feb 2021 #5
"Let the voters decide" MyMission Feb 2021 #7
i'm very troubled with the Hispanic shift to Trump samsingh Feb 2021 #10
Same here. What's up with that? Cozmo Feb 2021 #15
Trump increased his support from Hispanics here in Texas. Lonestarblue Feb 2021 #24
What frightens me is all his fascist policies that were ho-hum to the public bucolic_frolic Feb 2021 #11
Well, yeah. Plus he conned many Cuban voters into supporting him by ginning up fear PatrickforO Feb 2021 #12
No Shit! Teddy Beer Feb 2021 #14
The more the rePUKES currently in office see this report the better. NT SayItLoud Feb 2021 #16
Post-mortem narrative of Trump Campaign Larissa Feb 2021 #17
The Harris image vs Pence is simply gender and race... Sancho Feb 2021 #18
I would say more gender than race GreenEyedLefty Feb 2021 #20
Interesting to me the favorable/unfavorable with regard to Kamala Harris GreenEyedLefty Feb 2021 #19
Telling the truth to themselves & not Americans is the foundation of a bad, bad political party. ancianita Feb 2021 #21
The mere fact that Trump STILL got over 70 million votes is disheartening MrScorpio Feb 2021 #22
Though Trump got 11 million votes more in 2020 than he did in 2016 rocktivity Feb 2021 #28
"Voters who did not vote in 2016 but voted in 2020 rocktivity Feb 2021 #25
A vote flip of just 22,000 votes from Biden to Trump in 3 states (AZ, GA, WI) combined progree Feb 2021 #27
DING DING DING! Progee, you're our grand prize winner! rocktivity Feb 2021 #31
Trump's callous disregard and indifference to the virus and the suffering of the Nation badboy67 Feb 2021 #29
re: "It is unclear if Trump has seen the report." BadGimp Feb 2021 #30
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