Bellwether Counties Nearly Wiped Out In 2020 Election

WSJ ^ | 11-13-20 | John McCormick

[TrumpRedJoe]

America has become so polarized that presidential bellwether counties—those that consistently back the national winner, switching between parties in the process—are nearing extinction. From 1980 through 2016, 19 of the nation’s more than 3,000 counties voted for the eventual president in every election.

Only one of them, Washington state’s Clallam County, backed President-elect Joe Biden last week. Other counties that had been bellwethers all the way back to the 1950s ended their runs by backing President Trump instead of the Democrat.

[mylife]

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[Beagle8U]

The Bedwetter counties in MI house Ann Arbor and Detoilet.

[saintgermaine]

What they did not anticipate was the enormous amount of fraudulent votes. But when all is said and done they may be right after all. By now people should realize that this is what you can expect when dealing with socialists.

[Grampa Dave]

Another example of why I cancelled my WSJ subscription over 10 years ago.

[GOPJ]

Amazing isn’t it... how could they have got it so wrong... we’ll never know.

LOL - ding ding ding - we have a thread winnah!

[Kickass Conservative]

ALL of Trumps’ Votes were Legitimate.

MANY of Joementia’s Votes were Illegitimate.

If you have to cheat the win an Election, you are Evil.

I will not support Evil and I assume about 70 Million or so fellow Trump Voters will be joining me.

We have moved beyond simple disagreement and Politics, we are dealing with a whole new animal, nothing I ever thought I would experience in my Lifetime.

[kabar]

Proves voter fraud along with the Reps increasing its numbers in the House, three state legislatures, and an additional governor.

Biden gets 78 million votes, 12 million more than Hillary in 2016 (17% increase) and 9 million more than Obama"s record 69 million in 2008. Trump increases his total 9 or 10 million more and loses? Does anyone believe these numbers?

[BlackbirdSST]

How does that happen, where you can get a radical Rat as SOS in Arizona?

Just a WAG, fraud/Soros.

[The Westerner]

Is this humor?

[VideoDoctor]

So, because Trump “lost,” it’s the bellwether counties that are wrong, not the election results?

I thought the same thing.

You're as "right as rain" on that.

Simply put: They got it A$$ Backwards!

[Trailerpark Badass]

AZ SOS is the Mother Of All Karens. I wish I could post an image of her without blowing up the screen, because whenever I see a woman with a hairdo like that, I throw up in my mouth a little.

[princeofdarkness]

In PA if you win Luzerne County you pretty much win the state and usually the Presidential Election. Verdict: Stolen by fraud and intimidation.

[lepton]

So...18 of 19 Bellweather counties voted for Trump?

[TrumpRedJoe]

Right.

BUT The nation has grown by probably 24 million since Obama’s win in 2008 and 8 million since Hillary in 2016.

[mjp]

irreconcilable differences = time for separation

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

Trump improves his vote totals at a good to in some cases very good rate, so his overall support certainly did not falter or crater, but Biden comes in and ^{late at night} gets numbers way far better than Hillary or Obama ^{in the biggest city in each purple state} in order to win.

[kabar]

Obama 2008 69 million
Obama. 2012 66 million
Hillary. 2016. 66 million
Biden. 2020. 78 million

The big cities in swing states are where Biden built up his huge numbers. Populations have been stagnant or declining. Huge increases in turnout. 5 counties in WI had 95% turnout. WI had 88% turnout. These are statistically impossible. Even countries with mandatory voting don’t approach those levels.

[arthurus]

They are still bellwethers. They point to the legal vote, not the invented vote.

[KansasGirl]

Bellweathers were right. Trump won. WI, MI, PA, GA, AZ, and NV were all stolen through blatant vote fraud. It was by design. I have no doubt in mind. They didn’t even hide the fraud well, but for some reason the GOP legislatures in the states are not pushing back as hard as they should be (and should have been doing before the election took place). Trump won and deserves another 4 years. Biden will always be illegitimate.

[mo]

All the President needs to do at this point is to show foreign interference in the elections.

At that point most state legislatures will consent to vote their own slate of electors.

He doesn’t even have to prove WHO. There are plenty of statistical anomalies. If they can be proven to have originated offshore-BINGO -the state legislature will NOT certify the vote