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Joe Biden’s Non-Mandate: He may win the White House, but his party and progressive ideas lost.
Wall Street Journal ^ | November 5, 2020 | WSJ Editorial Board

Posted on 11/06/2020 4:55:13 AM PST by karpov

As the votes continue to be counted in swing states, Joe Biden has the best chance to become the next President. But the closer we inspect the nationwide election returns, the more the result looks like a defeat for the rest of his Democratic Party and especially for the progressive agenda. Mr. Biden would take office without a mandate beyond addressing Covid-19 and not being Donald J. Trump.

Mr. Biden will win the popular vote, and he may eke out a narrow win in the Electoral College. In essence he’ll have reversed Mr. Trump’s victory in 2016 with hair’s-breath advantages in Wisconsin and Michigan, and perhaps Pennsylvania, Georgia and Arizona. None of them will be by large margins. He will have vanquished an incumbent President, which is no easy task.

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But look down the ballot, or across the country, and Mr. Biden’s potential victory looks remarkably limited and personal. Most new Presidents enter office having swept allies into Congress and statehouses as the public embraces his agenda and vision for America. Certainly this was true of Barack Obama in 2008 and to a lesser extent Mr. Trump in 2016. Mr. Biden had no such coattails.

Democrats lost seats in the House, giving up some of the suburban gains they made in 2018 while continuing to struggle in rural areas. The full results won’t be in for weeks, but Speaker Nancy Pelosi may find her majority cut in half or more to the smallest in 20 years.

Senate control may be determined by a Jan. 5 runoff for two seats in Georgia. But the GOP already looks to have won 50 seats to 48 for Democrats, who had expected to ride public dislike for Mr. Trump into the majority.

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To: LS; Blue Turtle; Albion Wilde; Darksheare

need state ping lists and also
phone email and name lists of all congressmen, senators, and state legislators.

need to start calling them and also all newspapers/blogs/etc

how to?

been up all night and groggy


41 posted on 11/06/2020 5:10:34 AM PST by Norski
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To: karpov
Joe Biden’s Non-Mandate: He may win STEAL the White House, but his party and progressive ideas lost.

It's never really been about China Joe. Even the Idiot socialist dems know he isn't capable. Heels Up Harris will be the power, either "behind the throne" or outright.

42 posted on 11/06/2020 5:11:37 AM PST by The Sons of Liberty (Behind enemy lines in the newly occupied socialist state of Georgia)
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To: karpov

50-8 margin means nothin when you have a handful of RINOS and Harris as VP and deciding vote when 49-49 ties.


43 posted on 11/06/2020 5:12:09 AM PST by DownInFlames (Gals)
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To: Saveourcountry

COVID worked so well that I expect a new virus that is more lethal coming our way. This bio warfare stuff works.


44 posted on 11/06/2020 5:12:30 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: Skywise
Biden didn’t win - this election is a farce

True enough ... and none of what is happening is about Biden (who is truly irrelevant as everyone who follows politics knows including, possibly, Biden himself). No, it's all about the Left ... about socialism -- that ultimately devolves into communism -- which Trump promised he would protect America against ... and he and his team continue to do all they can to do so.

45 posted on 11/06/2020 5:12:37 AM PST by glennaro (Pity those who mask and cower out of fear; condemn those who promote fear as a virtue)
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To: Hojczyk

If the fraudulent “mail-in” ballot system become the new normal...then all future election results will be determined by big city machines working in the dead of darkness


46 posted on 11/06/2020 5:12:49 AM PST by RonnG ('')
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To: RonnG

I agree. They are going to lose the Senate. The Republicans better get their act together.


47 posted on 11/06/2020 5:14:03 AM PST by LoveMyFreedom
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To: karpov

A jow biden presidency may be the best thing for this country. It may convince some people to turn back to God. And it may get others to volunteer to be poll workers and vote counters instead of letting the rats count and tally all the votes... Imagine the progressive house and senate blood bath if more whistleblowers were working the polls!


48 posted on 11/06/2020 5:14:17 AM PST by Ikeon (Render unto Ceasar what is Ceasar's.)
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To: karpov
How many ballots out there were only marked for the president (Biden)? Those should be seperated out with ann effort made to verify them.

With the 133000 ballots that magically showed up for Biden in Michigan - did any have votes for other, down ballot candidates?

49 posted on 11/06/2020 5:15:24 AM PST by Cowboy Bob (Mocking Liberals is not only a right, but the duty of all Americans.)
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To: RonnG

If this election coup works, there won’t be another election, which has been the goal starting with COVID, censoring, and race riots.


50 posted on 11/06/2020 5:15:46 AM PST by Toespi
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To: karpov

Loser talk


51 posted on 11/06/2020 5:18:11 AM PST by Stravinsky (Politeness will not defeat the Marxist revolutionaries)
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To: karpov

Joe is nothing but a figurehead, temporary at that, for the Radical Left. They don’t give a shiite about “mandates.” They want power...and, if they steal this election, they will take the rest of the power needed to dominate by coercion, intimidation, theft, and bloodshed.


52 posted on 11/06/2020 5:18:14 AM PST by RoosterRedux
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To: Toespi

It will be a “show election” like banana republic dictatorships.


53 posted on 11/06/2020 5:19:17 AM PST by RonnG ('')
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To: karpov

So stupid, but then Wall Street is now democrat.

Forget the Senate blocking Biden.
With executive actions alone he can stop the wall, open the borders, and grant amnesty to 30 million (the real number) illegals, stop fracking, end all investigations ( bye- bye Durham), defund the military, appoint 300 judges ( with help from Romney, Collins, Murkowski), appoint far leftists to cabinet and regulatory positions, etc., etc.


54 posted on 11/06/2020 5:23:30 AM PST by oldbill
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To: LS

How do we sell the American people that Joe Biden cheated his way into the White House? Do we have videos of people stuffing the ballot boxes in Philadelphia?


55 posted on 11/06/2020 5:23:52 AM PST by MinorityRepublican
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To: karpov

Oh, whoops, actually because we didn’t contest the irregularities in the presidential election, all the GOP’s gains everywhere else have been wiped out too!

Yay, we can retire to our comfy armchairs and quarterback this country the way we really want to!

-GOP


56 posted on 11/06/2020 5:28:20 AM PST by cmj328 (We live here.)
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To: karpov
But look down the ballot, or across the country, and Mr. Biden’s potential victory looks remarkably limited and personal

If one were to carefully examine the democrats' one true goal for this election cycle, they will have achieved it.

They didn't work very hard to win congressional seats or senate seats, no matter how many more millions they spent in trying to do so. They could care less about those peripheral goals.

Their BIG GOAL was to get Trump out of the presidency.

They tried their hardest, even if illegally, to remove Trump. For 4+ years, they tried to get rid of him. They failed to do it through their scams and fabrications and attempted coups, so, their only means of removal was through the 'election'.

They continued doing through the election what they couldn't do through 4 years of congressional attempts to impeach. Those attempts to impeach were all illegal, and the illegality continued through the entire election cycle, including voter fraud.

They were bound and determined to get rid of Trump, and Nancy and Schumer and the DNC and the entire corrupt democrat machine, concentrated their efforts in the election. They have, apparently, achieved their ONE TRUE GOAL, even if illegally achieving it.

So, while they lost some house seats, and didn't really gain anything in the senate, democrats are very happy with the results of the election.
57 posted on 11/06/2020 5:36:40 AM PST by adorno
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To: LS

The evidence of fraud is so overwhelming you’d win in any court.


Yes, but would you win in a way that changes the vote count, or would you just win in a way that gets election officials in hot water?

The decisions to mass-mail ballots not requested hopelessly polluted the ballot submissions. A large part of the battle was lost then.

The Dem machine in Philadelphia is playing chicken with their counts - as realistically, every ballot opened while the observers were kept out are now non-verifiable, but there is no way the courts are going to invalidate 200,000+ ballots because an indeterminate number of likely bogus ones were mixed in.


58 posted on 11/06/2020 5:37:11 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: karpov
Trump will be eligible in '24.
59 posted on 11/06/2020 5:37:34 AM PST by depressed in 06 (63 in '22. Now, more than ever! (I didn't take into account Mittens, Collins and Murkowski.))
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To: MinorityRepublican; 1_Rain_Drop; 3D-JOY; Abbeville Conservative; Abby4116; acoulterfan; ...

Not yelling at you so forgive me if I come across as cross or angry, but

WE HAVE ALL THE DAMN EVIDENCE WE NEED to string up 100 DemoKKKrats.

Evidence isn’t the issue, and has never been the issue. Political will is the only issue. In Reconstruction, the Rs had the political will to do what was necessary (at least until 1876). There was no wavering. If it took military governments in the south, they did that. If it took troops, they did that.

I see NO political will outside of Trump’s team and a tiny handful of GOP types. Almost all have been totally silent on this coup. By now ALL the GOP state legislatures should have issued formal statements saying they will not accept the results of any election where fraud was present to the degree it made a difference. They will be naming their own elector slates.

This should have been done after the first mysterious spike in Biteme’s numbers. Yet not a peep.

And by the way, for all the lovers of state representation, state’s rights, federalism, etc.: THIS IS ENTIRELY THE RESULT OF STATES. None of these legislatures stepped up to stop the governors with their lockdowns. None were impeached or removed. ALL these ridiculous voting laws are NOT the result of illegal aliens, non-citizens, governors, or the federal government. They are ALL the result of state legislatures wanting to be “inclusive.” Extending voting times and days, changing rules for ballots and absentees. Don’t blame the feds and don’t blame outsiders. This was an inside job by YOUR. STATE. REPRESENTATIVES.


60 posted on 11/06/2020 5:41:19 AM PST by LS ("Castles made of sand, fall in the sea . . . eventually" (Hendrix))
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