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5 More Ways Joe Biden Magically Outperformed Election Norms
The Federalist ^ | 23 Nov 2020 | J.B. Shurk

Posted on 11/23/2020 6:12:07 AM PST by Rummyfan

Surely the journalist class should be intrigued by the historic implausibility of Joe Biden’s victory. That they are not is curious, to say the least.

In all the excitement among objective journalists for Joe Biden’s declared victory, reporters are missing how extraordinary the Democrat’s performance was in the 2020 election. It’s not just that the former vice president is on track to become the oldest president in American history, it’s what he managed to accomplish at the polls this year.

Candidate Joe Biden was so effective at animating voters in 2020 that he received a record number of votes, more than 15 million more than Barack Obama received in his re-election of 2012. Amazingly, he managed to secure victory while also losing in almost every bellwether county across the country. No presidential candidate has been capable of such electoral jujitsu until now.

Clinton’s 2016 totals in every urban county in the United States, he outperformed her in the metropolitan areas of Georgia, Michigan, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania. Even more surprising, the former VP put up a record haul of votes, despite Democrats’ general failures in local House and state legislative seats across the nation.

He accomplished all this after receiving a record low share of the primary vote compared to his Republican opponent heading into the general election. Clearly, these are tremendous and unexpected achievements that would normally receive sophisticated analysis from the journalist class but have somehow gone mostly unmentioned during the celebrations at news studios in New York City and Washington, D.C.

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TOPICS: Editorial; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2020; electionresults; elections; joebiden; popularvote; preselection; preselections; votes
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1 posted on 11/23/2020 6:12:07 AM PST by Rummyfan
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To: Rummyfan

Voter fraud and election tampering!


2 posted on 11/23/2020 6:13:41 AM PST by DarthVader (Not by speeches & majority decisions will the great issues th the day be decided but by Blood & Iron)
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To: Rummyfan

There is the concept of “preponderance of evidence”.
There is the concept of “beyond a reasonable doubt”.

For something like election fraud, I think there should be a simple standard of “reasonable doubt”. If the election seems fishy, it’s not a good election. This one, was not a good election.


3 posted on 11/23/2020 6:15:17 AM PST by ClearCase_guy (If White Privilege is real, why did Elizabeth Warren lie about being an Indian?)
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To: Rummyfan
He accomplished all this after receiving a record low share of the primary vote compared to his Republican opponent heading into the general election.

Helmut Norpoth's Primary Model formula needs a slight revision. The new formula is...

w = d

Where w is the winner and d is the Democrat candidate.

4 posted on 11/23/2020 6:18:30 AM PST by Flick Lives (My work's illegal, but at least it's honest. - Capt. Malcolm Reynolds)
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To: Rummyfan

Biden was doing so poorly in the early primaries that it appeared that he had no chance, until the DNC decided that none of the other candidates could beat Trump and forced the others to drop out. Some “democratic” process. And of course Kamala did so badly that she dropped out before the first primary. And we are supposed to think they generated unprecedented enthusiasm in the general election?


5 posted on 11/23/2020 6:18:47 AM PST by Verginius Rufus
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To: ClearCase_guy

Shouldn’t the ability to articulate a reasonable suspicion be the Standard??? It is the EXACT Language the USSC dreamed up for Search Warrants and Police Stops.


6 posted on 11/23/2020 6:18:50 AM PST by eyeamok
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To: Rummyfan

If you don’t believe a guy who could barely corner nine people in a rural hardware store parking lot to hear him rant beat another guy who could attract tens of thousands anywhere he went, then you will have to be taken to the Ministry of Truth and have your teeth removed with pliers. That’s their program.


7 posted on 11/23/2020 6:24:04 AM PST by SpaceBar
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To: eyeamok

I’m fine with that.

I very much dislike the media’s approach that Joe Biden is president until we prove beyond all doubt that he isn’t.

Clean elections aren’t hard. We could have them if we wanted them. So far, neither party really wants them.


8 posted on 11/23/2020 6:25:12 AM PST by ClearCase_guy (If White Privilege is real, why did Elizabeth Warren lie about being an Indian?)
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To: SpaceBar

Yep! Excellent Summary. Thank you.


9 posted on 11/23/2020 6:34:44 AM PST by caprock (from the flats of SE New Mexico)
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To: Rummyfan

The only difference between Mark McGuire and Joe Bitem is that Mark was an athletic and successful baseball player.

They both won on Steroids.


10 posted on 11/23/2020 6:45:27 AM PST by C210N
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To: Rummyfan

This is the great divide, as of now u either follow the MSM, or u don’t.

They have gone 100 % to the dark side.......many will soon be out of work, as ratings and sales crash.


11 posted on 11/23/2020 6:53:46 AM PST by crazycat
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To: Verginius Rufus
And we are supposed to think they generated unprecedented enthusiasm in the general election?

Nope, Biden didn't generate anything, Trump did.

The problem is the level of enthusiasm he generated against himself.

12 posted on 11/23/2020 6:57:53 AM PST by semimojo
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To: Rummyfan

One fact has been consistently overlooked by the experts...

In 2016, Third Party voters got almost 6% of the vote.

In 2020, Third Party voters got less than 2%.

Biden picked up all of the 2016 Green Party defectors.

Also, in 2016, the Libertarian Party publicly supported Amnesty and Open Borders for foreign workers. Their Vice President nominee publicly stated he would vote for Hillary Clinton if he was not on the Libertarian ticket.

Biden picked up at least 50% of the Libertarian defectors.

I estimate that Biden picked up close to 4 million Third Party voters who decided not to throw their votes away in 2020.


13 posted on 11/23/2020 7:03:44 AM PST by zeestephen
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To: SpaceBar

If you believe a guy who could barely corner nine people in a rural hardware store parking lot to hear him rant got more votes than another guy who could attract tens of thousands anywhere he went, I want to be your economic adviser and handle your life savings!


14 posted on 11/23/2020 7:05:49 AM PST by Skeptical constituent
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To: Rummyfan

He accomplished all this after receiving a record low share of the primary vote.

No wonder he and Harris are a team two losers make riggers happy.
She could only get 2 % media falls in love.


15 posted on 11/23/2020 7:37:43 AM PST by Vaduz (women and children to be impacIQ of chimpsted the most.)
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To: semimojo

The problem is the level of enthusiasm he generated against himself.


That is certainly a part of the dynamic, but it clearly wasn’t a strong one, as he broadly buoyed others on the ticket. That is incompatible with the voters dis-preferring him.


16 posted on 11/23/2020 7:51:27 AM PST by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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To: lepton; All
Maybe Biden didn't steal the election, but it was definitely stolen for him.

Also don't forget over 3 million dead people voted for Biden, and one of the dead died 154 years ago.

17 posted on 11/23/2020 8:25:55 AM PST by Kaslin (Joe Biden will never be my President, and neither will Kamala Harris)
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To: Rummyfan

Read my lips...Fellow Americans...This Joe Biden farce, corrupt gig & illegal caper with the Democrat Party, will not bode well or, go good for the entire Democrat Party. And, the overwhelming number of the American people know the truth!!! May Democrats burn in hell for all eternity.

If there is any American that believes Democrat “Corrupt” Joe Biden got 79,000,000 votes...they must be stoned on reefer, or playing with themselves in the shower!!!


18 posted on 11/23/2020 9:07:31 AM PST by JLAGRAYFOX (Defeat both the Republican (e) & Democrat (e) political parties....Forever!!!)
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To: lepton
...he broadly buoyed others on the ticket.

Or you could argue a significant number of voters wanted the Republican down-ballot candidates but not Trump.

19 posted on 11/23/2020 9:13:25 AM PST by semimojo
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To: semimojo

buoyed. Not differentiated.

Their association with and his campaigning for them lifted them. That would not be possible if the voters leaned towards rejecting Trump.


20 posted on 11/23/2020 10:53:19 AM PST by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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