Posted on 01/04/2021 5:53:58 PM PST by DoodleBob
WASHINGTON — More than a month after Election Day, the biggest political story for many Americans is how close the presidential race was. President-elect Joe Biden won by more than 4 points, but polls and some observers were expecting a win in the 10-point range.
Taking a longer view, however, the relative closeness of the race shouldn't have been a surprise. It was less an outlier than standard operating procedure. In fact, the United States is in its longest run of single-digit popular vote elections in a very long time.
Biden's 4.4-point victory in November was the second-largest popular vote win by any presidential candidate since 2000.
Biden's margin of victory was bigger than George W. Bush's 2.5-point win in 2004 and Barack Obama's 3.9-point win in 2012. The only bigger margin? Obama's "landslide" win in 2008, which was only a 7.2-point victory over John McCain.
Another sign of how close presidential elections are this century: The two other races — in 2000 and 2016 — ended with splits in the popular and Electoral College votes. Al Gore won the popular vote by about half a percentage point and Hillary Clinton won the popular vote by about 2 points on their way to losses in 2000 and 2016.
And it's not just the popular vote that's been tight. Since the 2000 election, only once has a presidential candidate carried more than 30 states in the Electoral College: Bush won 31 states in 2004.
Thirty states may sound like a lot. But it used to be quite common for a presidential winner to break 30 states.
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Been going on for years, just got accelerated in 2020 because the globalist oligarchy decided to put an end to America in 2020.
Not that big a deal when one is only comparing it to 5 other elections.
And visuals don’t mean everything. We all should know that going by Bernie’s rallies. Good visuals are nice, but it’s a drop in the bucket of how many people will vote.
Easy. Blacks actually came out and voted, 99% for the halfbreed.
Correct.
The numbers given are less against a reality Not noted.
Visual, Scientific, mathematical and Legally witnessed and reported and recorded Election Fraud.
Without those subtractions and invalidations correcting the figures to the physical REAL world results being represented then we have some very hard work done by the author which I respect,but we are seeing only one side of the mathematical coin.
No. It wasn't close.
The closeness was fraudulent, as everyone actually knows. It's the new abnormal, to cover up for what's actually normal--which is that most of America has seen through the Deep State's crap-screen, and is ready to move on to reality.
Yep. In reality this election was a blow out and 2016 probably wasn’t close either without the fraud.
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