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To: ponygirl

But that is my point.

If Trump won 70% of the vote, people would freely talk about voting for him. We would be the overwhelming majority and would overwhelm the Trump naysayers.

I was too young when Reagan won his second term to remember much, but I do remember a cousin at a backyard event filled with family and neighbors expressing concern that he wouldn’t win and pretty much everyone scoffing, saying basically, “Don’t be ridiculous. He’s going to win going away.” Then they made fun of the two or so liberals there whom they knew wouldn’t vote for Reagan.


3,204 posted on 01/17/2021 10:22:05 AM PST by CheshireTheCat ("Forgetting pain is convenient.Remembering it agonizing.But recovering truth is worth the suffering")
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To: CheshireTheCat

70% of the popular vote is impossible.

Reagan won the electoral vote 535-3 in 1984.

He won the popular vote 54%-40% (rounded). That was the biggest landslide of the modern era.


3,209 posted on 01/17/2021 10:24:34 AM PST by SaxxonWoods (Donald J. Trump is the rightful President of the USA and his own party won't admit that.)
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To: CheshireTheCat

NO! They have made it dangerous for anyone to speak out. It only takes a minority to tyrannize a majority. In fact I’d daresay tyranny ALWAYS comes from a minority that has obtained outsized power over potentially a much larger population.


3,245 posted on 01/17/2021 10:44:51 AM PST by ichabod1 (#notmypresident #resisttyranny)
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To: CheshireTheCat
If Trump won 70% of the vote, people would freely talk about voting for him. We would be the overwhelming majority and would overwhelm the Trump naysayers.

You are assuming you know what millions of people are talking about all over the country. You don't. Plus the other reasons others have said, not being open with their views due to not wanting to get assaulted, doxxed, fired and so on.

3,252 posted on 01/17/2021 10:48:50 AM PST by little jeremiah (Thirst for truth is the most valuable possession and no one can take it away from you.)
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To: CheshireTheCat
Things are different now. Propaganda is very effective and threats of job loss and/or doxxing are very real. In communist countries, a very small number of the population is able to control the majority merely by threatening their very means of existence. I spent time in a formerly communist country after the wall came down. The people I met there would tell me stories of how neighbors would disappear in the middle of the night and no one would even mention it the next day because they knew better than to ask questions.

Read Kafka, Orwell, Rand or Kundera to get an idea of what it was like to live in a communist country. Read Whittaker Chambers' "Witness" to learn how compromised we were by Soviet subversives in the 1930s. And then when you realize how they were able to roll that back and continue with their subversion after they shut down the McCarthy hearings... it will chill you. And we are experiencing the outcome of that subversion now.

3,276 posted on 01/17/2021 11:04:14 AM PST by ponygirl (An Appeal to Heaven )
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To: CheshireTheCat

“If Trump won 70% of the vote, people would freely talk about voting for him. We would be the overwhelming majority and would overwhelm the Trump naysayers.”


Just anecdotally (I know...) I’m in a mixed ethnicity, blue collar neighborhood in a very blue county that was quite literally awash with Hillary signs in 2016. Any Trump sign would immediately be “taken care of” - we had to fish several out of the storm drain, but you never saw any on display. By contrast, in 2020, we saw a smattering of Trump signs and flags, and nothing at all for Biden. Further, a neighbor who did canvassing for Trump told us that of the people who would talk with him, there were 2 to 3 times as many voicing support for Trump as for Biden.

Same thing at the early voting polling place. A lot of Trump supporters, cars and trucks riding around the block repeatedly with Trump flags, honking their horns... people wearing red shirts, murmured conversations overheard in the waiting line... but any support for Biden was very, very quiet. The exact opposite of what we experienced in 2016.


3,458 posted on 01/17/2021 1:18:55 PM PST by 17strings (If you've posted a good meme or cat .gif, chances are I've stolen it! WWG1WGA )
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To: CheshireTheCat

Truth is since at least 2004 we don’t know who voted for whom especially in the presidentials. They have all been spiked by the scytl/dominion machines manipulated by cabal lackeys.


3,736 posted on 01/17/2021 4:27:09 PM PST by rodguy911 ((FreeRepublic home of the free because of the Brave---Where we go One))
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