[simpson96]

I think there are similarities, but it’s not going to come down to recounts in one state to see who wins - Trump is going to run away with it.

[Sacajaweau]

As long as NY and Ca exist, any Republican will most likely lose the popular vote. It's EXACTLY why we have the electoral college.

Obama actually beat the electoral college with concentration in heavy Dem districts.....effectively skewing the state totals.

Their strong points are getting out the vote, dead folks, senior homes, and out anbd out cheating.

Here's my suggestion to Republicans...refrain from early voting, absentee voting of any kind. That takes away the opportunity to throw your vote to the wind.

[Sacajaweau]

Republicans are now furious after hearing the media cr** day after day. They've gone off the deep end and are stuck on stupid.

Can't wait to vote for President Trump again.

[ClearCase_guy]

I am certainly hoping that the offensive against the Deep State picks up after Labor Day. If Trump is demonstrably draining the swamp it will go a long way toward a landslide.

[Haiku Guy]

Bush had majority support on two days (aside from the reaction to 9/11). Those two days were Election Day 2000 and Election Day 2004. His focus was on having enough support on those two days to win the election.

Compare that to Bill Clinton and Barack Obama, who were obsessed with their poll numbers every day of their respective administrations. They were constantly struggling to win the news cycle, and the campaign never stopped.

[thirdgradeteacher]

I’m pretty concerned about the election fraud that will be out there come November 2020. The Democrats are going to do whatever it takes to beat Trump. Clearly they don’t have a message or a candidate. But Trump must lose at all costs. Trump will fight it, but anticipate a very ugly election.

[moovova]

What difference, at this point, does it make?

If a Republican were to win the presidency 4 gazillion to 12, democrats wouldn’t accept it as a legitimate win.

[zeestephen]

Re: Will 2020 be a Repeat of 2004 for Democrats?

Since we have 15 million more naturalized citizens and anchor babies - probably not.

[dixie1202]

Few people described their 2004 vote as “for Kerry.” Rather, it was against Bush. I certainly didn’t vote “for” McCain or Romney but did vote against Obama. By contrast, in both 2016 and 2020, I am PRO Trump all the way. I don’t see any Dem that will generate much enthusiasm.

[newfreep]

The voter fraud will be far more massive in 2020 than 2004 as the leftwing communists/socialists continue to ramp up their totalitarian violence to overthrow our Constitutional Republic “by any means necessary”.

Sadly, nothing is being done to control/stop the voter fraud.

[jeffc]

For eight long years Obummer was working behind the scenes to transform (weaponize) the federal government. I fervently hope that while Trumo is out front draining the swamp to fix the government, he’s also behind the scenes working to transform the American media, this time to our side. Crush the Leftists.

[Buckeye McFrog]

I hope not.

Lurch came uncomfortably close to winning.
The Swiftboat Vets really pulled our bacon out of the fire on that one.

[DeplorablePaul]

The daily frenzy of hate the left is fulminating against whites is repelling Democrat voters. I think the Donald will do very well picking up more voters in 2020.

A good sign is that voices like Carlson, Rush and Hannity are pushing back on the white supremacy hoax. People don’t like to be falsely accused of racism.

[1Old Pro]

The Dems are overplaying their hand with the willing collaboration of the media, it won’t end well for them. They misread the public.

[Harpotoo]

No because it President MAGA Trump in 2020 not some RINO Coward who refused to fight back and hid in the Bushes!

[Jim Noble]

Good job spotting the connection.

There’s one big difference, though. Mostly as a reaction to what they thought was a “can’t lose” effort in 2004, followed by two big wins in 2008 and 2012, followed by their failure to pull a sick old drunk over the finish line in 2016, the media has expanded both the scope of their control work AND the breadth of their lies.

If 70% of women in America got their news exclusively from Facebook, as they do today - GW Bush would have lost in a landslide.

What they’ve learned from 2016 is that no lie is too big, and that “private” companies can deny a platform to whomever they choose.

It’s not a pretty picture.

[nathanbedford]

Despite the application of modern computers, politics much less electioneering is still more of an art than a science. Other articles have addressed this art by comparing the upcoming election to the 1984 election in which Reagan trounced Mondale. In '84 Mondale ran well to the left and lost every state but one and that narrowly. Mondale sealed his own defeat when he promised to raise taxes.

I joined the fray some time ago by comparing the upcoming election to the 1964 election in which Lyndon Johnson and his henchmen in the media marginalized Barry Goldwater as an extremist who was likely to blow up the world. For good measure Barry Goldwater was also painted as a racist. The end result was inevitable, a historic landslide for Johnson sealed by Goldwater himself who declared “Extremism in defense of liberty is no vice. Moderation in pursuit of justice is no virtue.” It is notable that in these two elections the losing candidates obliged their opponents with what amounted to their epitaphs.

The upcoming 2020 election appears to be a foot race between Donald Trump the "racist" and Donald Trump riding a phenomenal economy to victory. No president in modern times has failed to be reelected with an economy this good.

But this is not November 2020 and the economy has plenty of time to reverse course. In my view, Donald Trump is demonstrating great personal political courage in waging his tariff war with China because he must know that he risks a severe economic downturn and with it his reelection. Meanwhile, rather than sinking the United States in a quagmire in Iraq, Trump is extracting us from Afghanistan, limiting our exposure in Iraq, being filmed crossing the DMZ in North Korea and negotiating with China. In short the visuals confirm, Trump is looking very presidential abroad.

No quagmire abroad, a warm if not a hot economy at home, the Democrats are left with no attack point except to shout, "racist." If they make it stick, Trump looks like Goldwater. If the economy holds and they don't make it stick as they have failed to stop Trump in the electoral college, with the Russia hoax, with the 25th amendment, or with impeachment, Trump looks more like Reagan in '84 and Johnson in '64.

If the economy slips, if China penetrates the American political scene and turns Midwestern Republicans against Trump, his surest path to reelection might be blocked. If domestic Democrats with their henchmen in the media can ride the extremist argument, obliged perhaps by incautious tweets or remarks by the President, he might look like Goldwater in '64.

[FlipWilson]

In one breath the democrats are making a case that Trump is an unstable miscreant that must be replaced.

Ok, but in their next breath they argue the answer is to replace him with one of a cast of miscreants, each crazier than the next.

Hence the rush to Biden by the rational (if there are any) heads in the DNC as the “palatable” alternative. But they are deluding themselves if they think he is palatable.

[Teacher317]

Democrats by 2004 had become obsessed with defeating incumbent President George W. Bush.

The 2020 obsession is light years ahead of the 2004 version. In 2004, Democrats at least had to adhere to reality, and had to hide their racism and their violent ideals. Today, they literally make fantasy snuff films about murdering voters.

[Luke21]

“They warned of a landslide loss similar to the one Democrats suffered in 1972, when the party had foolishly nominated the ultra-liberal George McGovern.”

I don’t remember a discouraging word being said about or among Democrats during that campaign. I remember Kerry dressing up like a condom and Free Republic saving Bush from the last minute Rather/Mapes smear.

Funny what memory does.