Posted on 07/01/2020 10:07:50 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
We’ve had close elections before, but political experts are bracing for events that might be unprecedented come November.
Surprisingly large portions of both Republicans and Democrats seem poised to challenge the results of the 2020 presidential election if their side loses. Some even favor authoritarian rule over elections as the best way to run the country. And a new worry for 2020 is the risk that more mail-in voting could delay official results well past Election Day, leaving voters wondering whether it will be Donald Trump’s agenda or Joe Biden’s, once January arrives.
New research by the Democracy Fund Voter Study Group finds that 38% of Democrats favor a do-over election if their candidate, Joe Biden, wins the popular vote this year but loses the electoral vote, as Hillary Clinton did in 2016. Among Republicans, 11% favor a do-over if Biden wins the electoral vote but President Trump wins the popular vote. In the U.S. system, electoral votes are awarded for each state a candidate wins, rather than for the national tally, and there’s no provision for a repeat election if there’s a split decision. The electoral vote carries the day.
If Trump wins and there’s credible evidence of interference by a foreign government—as there was in 2016, we now know—57% of Democrats say they’d back a do-over election. And if Trump lost but claimed there was voter fraud, 29% of Republicans say it would be appropriate if he refused to leave office.
“There are multiple contexts in which people might plausibly be mobilized to reject the legitimacy of the election,” political scientist Larry Diamond of Stanford University, who co-authored the Democracy Fund analysis, says in the latest episode of the Yahoo Finance Electionomics podcast.
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This election is the same as last. The media lie, the media try and make you think of the President as stupid and their candidate is so smart who will unite .
The pollsters put out fake polls showing their guy easily winning so the media and talking heads can say Trump is losing bad even in states he should be winning easily.
Meanwhile the Democrats are fostering more voter fraud.
Trump wins and the media will be crying. The media will say he Trump should not be president because Biden got the popular vote , but never mention the electoral count is how we do things and never mention all the illegals voting.
We then go onto another 4 years of Democrats acting like little babies throwing tantrums, plus trying to impeach him again with more lies.
Whadidjaexpect, SOP
So what? Run up the score (with vote fraud) in areas already won? But dont spend time in middle America? Hardly representative
Actually, the result will be final as soon as enough Democrat ballots are "found" and counted.
indeed
any more questions, Larry?
If Biden is leading in the polls by 90 to 10 why even bring this up?
Dems will win the popular vote but lose the electoral vote
Remember all the polls during the early Democrat debates that showed all of them beating Trump by double digits?
That cracked me up. Polls are pointless.
rioters who don’t acknowledge the constitution forfeit their rights to live
Stirring the pot. Screw the media and academia.
the freaks have a higher population density on the coasts.
I would not be surprised to see the popular vote vs electoral vote issue play out a few more times in my lifetime. has already happened twice since I showed up on the planet.
proves two things.
a) birds of a feather flock together..
b) them dead white guys in powdered wigs were freaking geniusus.
IOW... the upcoming election should be fun
let the games begin
I must have the truncated version because I don’t see the “do-over” provision in the Constitution. Does this work like recounts where endless recounts are mandated for close state elections until the Democrat wins and then the recounts are immediately ended?
You could make a strong case that the Republican presidential candidate will never again win the popular vote. Demographics is destiny.
Dingleberries - there is no ‘popular’ vote... We all know if that was true - the candidates would just buy votes in the ~10 most populous States...
If that's what The Left wants, then that's what it will get, but it will regret it.
Again.
Projection. Plain and simple.
What’s next? Some liberal loser going to announce conservatives will burn cities and loot? Gads these people are stupid.
We’re the lawful - they’re democrat looters, burners and domestic terrorists.
Biden Stupid... that level.
Whoever thought of it was a genius for his time.
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