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Democrats got more popular votes than Republicans in five out of six of the last elections,

Yeah I have heard that one before.

Lets look at the last six elections.

2000 - GW Shrub vs Al Gore... not much enthusiasm for either candidate. Gore supposedly got 543,000 more votes than Shrub.

2004 - GW Shrub vs John Kerry. Bush the Republican won by 3,012,000

2008 - Obama vs McCain. There was very little enthusiasm for McCain and a lot for Obama. The only draw for most of us here was Sarah Palin.

2012 - Obama vs Romney. Even Romney's dog voted against him. No real enthusiasm here.

2016 - Trump vs Hillary. Supposedly Hillary won the popular vote by over 2 million. She actually had a lot of enthusiasm behind her... big rallies, crazed leftist women turning out in droves to elect the first woman President. They even had a television show called Madam Secretary where she was portrayed as the smartest woman in the world. And she still most likely cheated her butt off.

2020 - Trump vs Biden. Trump pulled in huge crowds... Biden virtually no enthusiasm, few rallies and the ones he did have typically had a few dozen people show up and most of the spectators were media and secret service. But Biden supposedly got the highest turnout in the country's history and the highest percentage of the popular vote in 120 years. That does not pass the sniff test.

Biden supposedly got over 2/3rds of the vote and over 12 million more votes than even Obama during his first election. In that election Obama received the most votes ever recorded in this country by many many millions.

Sorry pal it does not fly!

15 posted on 06/22/2021 7:35:16 AM PDT by fireman15
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To: fireman15
But Biden supposedly got the highest turnout in the country's history and the highest percentage of the popular vote in 120 years.

120 years? More than FDR, LBJ, Nixon, Reagan? 12 years would be more like it. Obama got 52.93%. Biden supposedly got 51.31%.

Another factor is that minor party candidates got about 5% of the vote last time and about 2% this time. Most of those votes went to Biden.

81 million votes for Biden does seem unrealistic, but some voters turned on Trump because of Covid, while hatred of Trump was a very strong motivator for Democrats.

I'm not sure what to think. It's possible that Biden did get more popular votes, and it's not impossible that Trump got more popular votes, though it's less likely than that he won more electoral votes if fraud hadn't happened.

17 posted on 06/22/2021 8:15:54 AM PDT by x
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