‘Instead, they urged their voters not to take advantage of the loosened rules and to vote the old-fashioned way.’
this is why I don’t think the post mortem of this election can simply be whining and moaning about ‘the steal’; both sides were playing by the same rules, and since the pubs knew precisely what the other side would do, to urge their voters to not do the same is beyond insane...it’s as if two football teams were playing a title game, and one of the coaches said they would be using the recently loosened holding rules to gain the edge and the other coach said we’re going to play by the old set of rules...when the second coach loses, grumbling is all he has left...
but that, in the end, would not have been enough; the real problem, which will only get worse in the coming years, is thee are simply more dems than pubs, and, when motivated, they will win on numbers alone, regardless of systems being used...
There are not more Dems than Pubs- Dems only number about 36%. What there are is a large body of apathetic people who don’t spend any time thinking about complex issues, who can be nudged one way or another, but only the Dems try to push them, so only the Dems get results.