Posted on 11/07/2020 5:19:59 AM PST by Kaslin
It's crazy political times like these that I long for how quickly, simply and peacefully the 1980 presidential election ended.
That was the year President Jimmy Carter called my father at 5 in the afternoon of Election Day - while he was in the shower - and congratulated him on winning the presidency.
Votes were still being counted and probably half the country hadn't voted yet, but by early evening Carter already knew he was being swept out of office by the Ronald Reagan landslide.
On Tuesday, Democrats were expecting to see a repeat of 1980.
They thought President Trump would be so far behind by dinner time that he'd have to call Joe Biden and concede.
For months they and the country's inept pollsters, blind pundits, and dishonest journalists had convinced themselves that a mighty Blue Wave was coming.
A Biden Blowout was going to sweep away Donald Trump, half a dozen senators like Lindsay Graham and dozens of Republican House members and put Democrats in charge of both houses of Congress and the White House.
But their Great Blue Wave turned out to be a Blue Mirage.
It looks like after a few weeks of legal challenges and a recount or two, Joe Biden is going to win, which would be a huge and impressive victory for the Democrats.
But otherwise, Election 2020 has been a political disaster for their party.
Democrats lost at least six seats in the House and legislative majorities in several states. But most important, Republicans appear on course to keep control of the Senate, dashing dangerous pipedreams of the party's old and young socialists to get rid of the filibuster and pack the Supreme Court.
Ditto for Joe Biden's promises to implement the Green New Deal, destroy our energy industry and punish the rich by jacking up taxes on incomes, capital gains, and corporations.
Meanwhile, Donald Trump may be on his way out but his Republican Party will live on and haunt the Democrat Party.
In four years Trump has single-handedly enlarged, energized, and diversified the old GOP, turning it into an energized America-first movement for millions of everyday citizens.
And though he was unfairly called a racist and a white supremacist by Democrats and the media every day for almost five years, he shocked the Democrats and impressed the liberal media this week by capturing a historic number of black, Latino, and Jewish votes.
Based on early exit polls, Trump won 26 percent of non-white voters. For a Republican, that's huge.
Instead of 8 percent he won 12 percent of the black vote, 18 percent of black men, and 8 percent of black women. More impressive, he won 32 percent of the Hispanic vote and 36 percent of Hispanic men.
President Trump was on his way to doing what many of us in the Republican Party knew we needed to do decades ago.
During the Bush II years, when I spoke to a few hundred fellow Republicans during a breakfast meeting in Florida, I told them the party had been more diverse when my father was president.
I said we needed to reach out to minorities. To prove my point, I said, "Will all the blacks and Hispanics eating breakfast with us this morning please stand up."
They all looked around at each other. No one stood. The only blacks and Hispanics in the room were serving breakfast, not eating it.
I told those Republicans that if the Party of Reagan was to survive it had to reach out to blacks and Hispanics every single year, not every two years or four years, but no one really listened until an outsider named Donald Trump came along.
President Trump's days may be numbered. But whether you are a Republican who loved him or hated him, you should give him the credit he is due.
He's shown Republicans the roadmap to the black, Hispanic, and Jewish voter. If we hope to take back the House, keep the Senate, and win the White House in the future, we need to follow that map.
Unfortunately, many voters grew tired of it.
ROFLOL
Do you have any idea why he crumpled up a ballot in anger and throw it away? I don't.
I probably would have reacted that way if I was coming across BLANK ballots in my pile.
I doubt recounts will change anything at the presidential level because there's way too many fraudulent ballots mixed in with the proper ballots to separate them.
With so much fraud, the state legislatures should exercise their Constitutional Right and directly decide who will represent their states in the upcoming Electoral College.
Or just cap the vote total based on 8pm election day. I do not care which ballot they count, but they do not get to count more that the total at the close as of 8pm.
Yes! Thank You! I’m grateful Graham won the seat. So what if he said he’d have to work with democrats. I believe that is true. As far as amnesty goes, Reagan was the biggest amnesty president in history and he’s a God on here.
It also depends on the population of the state. 50% of African American vote in Montana is very different than that of South Carolina.
Well, heck - it wouldn’t have been the first stupid thing he said. He’s a New Yorker - speak first and then possibly think! Don’t most of us wish he’d stop and think before speaking? Can’t criticize him for the way he’s handled his job tho’ and putting the country first. And the hard work of campaigning goes without saying!
It’s easy enough to check Absentee Ballot status online but of course, a person would need a computer to do so. Or even a phone call would have provided the information - HOPEFULLY! Imagine my surprise when I checked mine and my husband’s to find that his had been received AND CANCELLED.
What a mess it was. When I called to question it, I was told he voted in person so his absentee vote was cancelled. Really? My husband can’t leave the house so there was no way he voted in person. Had to go through the SOS office to get an explanation from the Board of Elections - it was part time workers who made the error. They corrected it but that and dealing with the Board didn’t give me any confidence that 11/3 was going to go well. This is in GA and apparently, it hasn’t!!
CHECK THIS OUT - How would we like to be in this position? Perhaps we will be. Imagine in that time, people didn’t even know - didn’t have the means in the nation to learn of it - what was done. Adams with fewer popular votes and fewer electoral votes than Jackson and STILL became president - thanks to the House! Called a “corrupt bargain” - you think? Amazing history!
https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/presidential-election-decided-in-the-house
Presidential election decided in the House
As no presidential candidate received a majority of electoral votes in the election of 1824, the U.S. House of Representatives votes to elect John Quincy Adams, who won fewer votes than Andrew Jackson in the popular election, as president of the United States. Adams was the son of John Adams, the second president of the United States.
In the 1824 election, 131 electoral votes, just over half of the 261 total, were necessary to elect a candidate president. Although it had no bearing on the outcome of the election, popular votes were counted for the first time in this election. On December 1, 1824, the results were announced. Andrew Jackson of Tennessee won 99 electoral and 153,544 popular votes; John Quincy Adams of Massachusetts received 84 electoral and 108,740 popular votes; Secretary of State William H. Crawford, who had suffered a stroke before the election, received 41 electoral votes; and Representative Henry Clay of Kentucky won 37 electoral votes.
As dictated by the U.S. Constitution, the presidential election was then turned over to the House of Representatives. The 12th Amendment states that if no electoral majority is won, only the three candidates who receive the most popular votes will be considered in the House.
Representative Henry Clay, who was disqualified from the House vote as a fourth-place candidate, agreed to use his influence to have John Quincy Adams elected. Clay and Adams were both members of a loose coalition in Congress that by 1828 became known as the National Republicans, while Jackson’s supporters were later organized into the Democratic Party.
Thanks to Clay’s backing, on February 9, 1825, the House elected Adams as president of the United States. When Adams then appointed Clay to the top Cabinet post of secretary of state, Jackson and his supporters derided the appointment as the fulfillment of a corrupt bargain.
People seem to forget that both Reagan and Nixon had enemies in the GOPe.
Which makes me think that those who plan to run in either of the next two campaigns 22/24 should go change over to the Dem party, so they can become the fox in the hen house. It would require a sacrifice and become the deep state whistle blowers on fraud. You can’t fight the enemy if you don’t have spies among the enemy.
[Good point. I would also get off this stupid blather on how much better Trump did among different racial/ethnic groups. Hispanics may be one story; but this fixation on black voters is mystifying. If Trump’s share of the black vote was 12% and Mitt Romney’s was 8% in 2012, then that sounds impressive until you realize that blacks are only 13% of the population. A four point increase in that group is an “impressive” gain that only results in a 0.5% change in your support at the end of the day.]
While I would certainly welcome increasing our share of the black vote, we should be pragmatic and realistic about it’s benefits.
>Kushnerism (i.e. amnesty for drug dealers) to get a bigger chunk of the black vote was always a snipe hunt.
So Jared Kushner was basically responsible for that? Trump should have had him stick to making Middle East deals and kept him out of domestic policy. Would you say that that was a factor in Biden’s success?
[So Jared Kushner was basically responsible for that? Trump should have had him stick to making Middle East deals and kept him out of domestic policy. Would you say that that was a factor in Biden’s success?]
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