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In reply to the discussion: Trump pollster's campaign autopsy paints damning picture of defeat [View all]rocktivity
(44,576 posts)31. DING DING DING! Progee, you're our grand prize winner!
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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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Trump pollster's campaign autopsy paints damning picture of defeat [View all]
brooklynite
Feb 2021
OP
He didn't even have to do *well* with handling COVID, he just had to make an EFFORT.
bearsfootball516
Feb 2021
#1
Exactly! The American People Are Remarkably Forgiving - And Remarkably Stupid As Well.
panfluteman
Feb 2021
#26
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
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
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
A vote flip of just 22,000 votes from Biden to Trump in 3 states (AZ, GA, WI) combined
progree
Feb 2021
#27
Trump's callous disregard and indifference to the virus and the suffering of the Nation
badboy67
Feb 2021
#29