Posted on 11/27/2024 3:57:29 AM PST by MtnClimber
The 2020 Presidential election shared a problem with the 1998 MLB home run race: the winning candidate did too well. In 1998, steroid juicer Mark McGwire broke Roger Maris’s home run record by nine home runs or roughly 15 percent.
In 2020, Joe Biden’s 81 million votes broke Barack Obama’s 2008 record 69 million votes by 12 million votes or roughly 17 percent. Obama’s 2008 numbers were anomalous. Hillary Clinton’s 2016 numbers were closer to the norm, and Biden got nearly 25 percent more votes than she did, a cool 16 million additional votes when finally counted.
Campaigning from his basement, this cognitively-challenged, charisma-free codger did much too well in 2020, and now even the Left is noticing. With virtually all the 2024 presidential election votes counted, Kamala Harris’s vote total remains roughly seven million votes shy of Biden’s ballot box-busting performance in 2020.
In trying to explain the differential, Michael Bender of the New York Times hinted at the truth. Wrote Bender, “[S]ome backsliding could be expected after the record turnout in 2020, which was aided by pandemic rule changes that increased mail voting.” You think?
As should be expected, Bender chose not to pursue this line of thinking to its natural end. If he had, he might have asked why only the Democrats seemed to have been aided in 2020 “by pandemic rule changes.” President-elect Donald Trump did not “backslide” in 2024. He upped his 2020 vote total by about two million.
In 2024, with life back to something like normal, Harris was denied the performance-enhancing juice that propelled Biden in 2020. That juice was formidable. The convenient arrival of COVID gave the Democrats a rationale for dismantling the safeguards against voter fraud in state after state.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
What??
We should not tell the truth because”
“We can’t afford crush what little confidence we have left in the government”
All the people who (really) cast votes for Harris have too much confidence in government.
“the likelihood of civil war would be too great.”
Do you think that Trump supporters will start a civil war? Perhaps you believe the MSM narrative on the January 6th “insurrection.” The truth is that conservatives are not violent.
Antifa and BLM are violent. They act through righteous anger and the support of Democrats, themselves motivated by righteous anger. Tell the truth about Democrat voter fraud and take the wind from their sails.
While we are at it, we should tell the truth about Democrats and systemic racism: the Trail of Tears, slavery, segregation, internment of Japanese Americans, affirmative action. Red, Black, Yellow, or White, Democrats have discriminated against you because of the color of your skin.
Tell the truth and their righteous anger will turn to shame.
That was great.
I guess it depends on the meaning of “cure.”
Sincere thanks. I was a long time accepting that. (Without screaming or temper tantrums. Just turning off the news.) But like 9/11, we just can’t forget the stories we saw on a daily basis.
I don’t think there was a drop off of support. There was a drop off of fraud.
I suppose I have to be grateful you’re not the final judge in what Freeper Material is. I wholly agree justice denied is f’d up but civil war is a really bad idea. Right now I’m hoping justice is achieved by Trump and Vance without the bloodshed of innocents.
ByteMercenary wrote:
“...Mail-in balloting should be declared unacceptable by FedGov with two notable exceptions. ...”
I can see deployed military needing to do mail-ins; who would be in the second category?
ChessExpert wrote:
(From the article):
“At the drop of a hat,” Hemingway wrote in her excellent book, Rigged, “America’s electoral system went from irredeemably corrupt and broken in 2016 to unquestionably safe in 2020.”
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How could the election be safe in 2020 but not in 2016??!!??
“In fact, almost everyone who ever commits a crime rationalizes the justifications for it.”
I think that is true. This includes political murders: Nazis, Communists, Muslim Jihadis. No one thinks they are doing wrong.
“The nation *NEEDS* to know the 2020 election was absolutely fraudulent, that the media-liars helped to steal it, that Republican traitors helped the Democrats steal it, that the US Federal government was deliberately trying to cover up and imprison people who objected to the clear theft of a Presidential election,”
I agree wholeheartedly. Democrats routinely lie and call Republicans Nazis and racists without any concern about civility or civil war.
We need to tell the truth about Democrats without concern for civility or civil war. The “vote early, vote often” party, the slavery party, the segregation party, etc. must be revealed over and over without stop.
“Not ready enough to avoid losing Senate seats to fraud”
Agreed. I’m convinced there was still Democrat voter fraud this election cycle, just less due to reduced mail-in ballot fraud.
Trump did well to debate Biden even on a playing tilted playing field. Biden’s dementia was finally exposed for all to see. Biden was forced out by the Politburo. Biden retaliated by nominating a loser. But for these unforced errors, a Democrat would be President. We got lucky.
“...Mail-in balloting should be declared unacceptable by FedGov with two notable exceptions. ...”
Exceptions:
- out of country USA citizens - military, etc
- in country, USA citizens that are certifiably unable to vote in person due usually to medical condition, age, etc.
Nothing to say
I’m honestly daily here never surprised at the stupidity and poorly informed nature of some people on a proto conservative site
And the earnest sound and fury they expound with from said wobbly lack of info
Parsing away 2020 is also a refuge of those who don’t understand the fight we are in to save western civilization and America from those wishing its death
So thank you
You’re ridiculous
So true.
YW.
We should start by doing what too many of us failed to do last time, which is to stop funding the media that covered this up with our TV subscriptions.
And while we're at it, we can find alternatives to the companies that actively work against us, even it it means giving up some convenience.
We have another chance. We may not get another if we fail this time.
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