My husband thinks that the clincher for war will be if Obama wins an election with 70+% of the popular vote. I don’t think any that any president has won with more than 65% of the popular vote, especially one presiding over difficult economic times.
If that happens, we’ll know for sure that the election process is rigged and that there’s no way to get out of this mess with peaceful, legal means.
At that moment, all bets are off.
This is completely nonsensical. If we lost by such a figure, it would mean we need to work really hard to save our party. You can ‘steal’ close elections but not the overwhelming majority sort. The Democrats believe to this day that President Bush stole the 2000 election (statistically a tie within the margins of error, but by our laws President Bush won) and the 2004 elections (Diebold stole the election in Ohio nonsense) but even they did not support destroying the Republic because they lost...it’s going to be a long four years in the wilderness for us, don’t make it eight years by behaving really badly and convincing America that we are insane.