Posted on 11/25/2020 7:04:08 AM PST by Kaslin
Big questions remain about what exactly happened in the 2020 election.
I've been looking over history, compiled on the Statista website, of total votes cast in presidential elections compared with the number of eligible voters. 2020 seems very, very odd.
The number of votes reported in 2020 exceeded the total number of votes cast in 2016 by 22 million. This is larger than the population of Florida, the nation's third-most-populous state, and almost as large as the population of Texas, the second-most-populous state.
According to Statista, votes of 66.5% of eligible voters were recorded in 2020. In 2016, 59.2 percent of eligible voters voted. In 2012, 58 percent voted. And in 2008, the election with America's first black presidential candidate nominated by a major party, 61.6 percent voted.
What accounts for the highly unusual surge in votes recorded in 2020?
Gallup polled voter enthusiasm just prior to the election, asking, "Compared to previous elections, are you more enthusiastic than usual about voting, or less enthusiastic?"
This year, 69 percent said they were "more enthusiastic." But in 2008, 68 percent said they were "more enthusiastic."
Gallup also asked voters whether they think "the stakes in this presidential election are higher than in previous years."
In 2020, 77 percent said yes. But in 2008, 76 percent said yes.
Voter enthusiasm in 2020 and 2008 was hardly different. Yet, in 2020, 22 million more votes were recorded compared with the 2016 election, and in 2008, there were 9 million more votes compared with the previous election. In 2020, voter turnout was 7.2 percentage points higher than in the previous election, compared with a 1.5 percentage point increase from 2004 to 2008.
Regardless of where things go in court challenges to what happened in the 2020 election, the tens of millions of votes that seem to have emerged out of nowhere need explanation.
The American people should demand an audit of the 2020 election and not settle until there are clear answers.
Meanwhile, taking the results of the election as a given, another big question remains for Republicans.
Why was it so close?
In September, Gallup asked voters whether they and their families were "better off now" than they were four years ago. Fifty-five percent said yes.
When the same question was asked in 1984, when then-President Ronald Reagan was running for reelection, 44 percent said yes. Yet Reagan went on to win by a landslide, winning 49 of 50 states.
One reason President Donald Trump did not run away with the election as Reagan did is what I have been writing about for years: the changing demographics of the country.
In the 1984 election, 84 percent of voters were white. In this election, 67 percent of voters were white.
What would the results have been if every racial/ethnic group had voted as they did in 2020 but 84 percent of the voters were white, like in 1984, rather than 67 percent?
President Trump would have won 52 percent of the popular vote and would have been victorious by a margin of 9.7 million votes.
The fact that Trump made gains among blacks and Hispanics in 2020 is meaningful. It shows that these groups can change their voting behavior. Voting liberal and Democratic is not genetic.
But Republicans are going to have to continue to make strong gains among non-white Americans, or they will be overwhelmed by the ethnic changes of the country. The white percentage of the American electorate that delivers most Republican votes will continue to shrink.
There should be zero tolerance of voting irregularities. But Republicans will be vulnerable to them as long as elections remain on a razor's edge.
Republicans must continue the hard work of convincing non-white Americans that a strong economy -- only possible with low taxes; low regulation; parental choice in education; private ownership, rather than government programs; and strong traditional moral principles -- is where their future lies.
No.
It depends on American voters and fair elections.
If the voters are voting ‘black’ or ‘brown’ then they are not really very American are they?
Maybe we need to convince them somehow that carving out racial privileges for them doesn’t really do them any good?
The GOP has no future if they don’t fight this fraud.
The nation depends on changing the indoctrination centers known as the educational system.
Pandering to the current crop of minorities will simply make the Republicans another version of Democrat. Why vote for a copy when you can vote for the real thing?
Obviously true. As the white percentage goes down, votes have to be replaced.
It won’t matter if the machines are rigged.
There is no doubt that there will be more black/brown voters. We need Trump to continue to spearhead this movement. No other candidate would have gotten the percentages of minority voters that he received.
He made a lot of inroads with ALL minorities in this election.
If you look over the Latino numbers...it’s just three or four years before the Latino/Hispanic population becomes THE minority in the US.
You go around these communities of Latinos...vast majority are conservative-type. Members of churches.
Not going to happen. We hear this every election, so the Republicans try a combo of persuasion and giving out not quite as much free stuff as the Democrats, and minorities still vote overwhelmingly for the D.
The real divide will be between those who work, versus those who depend on their connections to government for support.
The Republicans need to be the Party of people who work, of whatever color. We need to be the Party of small business owners, of private sector workers who need their jobs, and need their 401K retirement funds to stay healthy.
We need to ignore identity politics, rather than embrace it.
While I’m not for creating a new party, Trump has a huge voting block now. He should retain it, cultivate it. He should use it as leverage to change the GOP. He could become a kingmaker of sorts.
There is huge political power with him now no matter how the election turns out.
When the teachers quit and the children are all stupid.The Democrats have done their job. Democrats were never about education the anti voucher movement was to keep minorities in line.
Stop worshipping numbers. Voter enthusiasm for Republicans was higher this year. The non-white vote was higher for the Republicans. You don’t get votes by telling people you want them to vote for them as a token.
Stop carving numbers to make an argument that keeps losing.
Yes, but they should come over on their own volition instead of sops being given to them.
“When the teachers quit and the children are all stupid.The Democrats have done their job.”
Every losing election it’s the same crap. “We need to pander to minorities more!” It’s stupid, and it won’t work. We need to properly educate our young. If we don’t do that, nothing else we do will matter.
No it doesn’t! It depends on American Patriots. If we have to play the race game we are no better then the left and will destroy ourselves in the process..
F That!
The GOP has no future if they don’t fight this fraud.@@@@@@@
Dittos! Ready for the MAGA PARTY if GOP doesn’t cowboy up like patriots!
WWG1WGA!
Their future is leaving the station....as in rail roaded.
There is no point in voting for Republicans going forward after the GOP abandoned Trump while the election was being stolen. Other methods must be considered. It’s time to save western civilization.
That being said, it should be understood that the reason Trump saw an increase in the amount of support from blacks to gays to Latinos to whatever else is the very thing that makes the GOP establishment hate him so. The GOP will no doubt look at these results and try some incredibly phony outreach program. They’ll be dismissed as the pandering fools they are. Only Democrats can get away with that.
That is so stupid. Why should the Republican Party become Democrat Party LITE? If you want to chop up and divide the American people into all these little groups and constituencies, and then deceitfully pit them all against each other, just to scrape up some extra votes, then go join the Democrat Party now!
The Republican Party already has a solid foundation for being a great party: The Founding principles, the Declaration, and the Constitution. The big problem is most Republican politicians are utterly pathetic at clearly explaining those things to the American people. If the American people heard that message, clearly and effectively explained, you'd see a huge exodus of Democrat and Independent voters switching over to the Republican Party. But, as Sleepy Joe might say, Look, here's the deal: The Democrat Party is FAR superior to the Republicans in crafting its sales pitch to the American people. That's especially true given that the Democrat Party's core message is a crappy, destructive one while the Republican Party's core message is tremendous.
The Democrat Party is leaps and bounds ahead of the Republican Party in telling its story to American voters. Sleepy Joe Basement-Biden is "the worst candidate in the history of Presidential politics" (according to a quote from President Donald J. Trump). Yet, Sleepy Joe somehow accumulated an all-time Presidential election record-shattering 80 MILLION+ votes! ... and he was totally disinterested in even campaigning for it ... and they're still counting even more boxes of Biden-ballots. I know, that's based on the Democrat Party Cabal's election fraud but besides all that Democrat massive election fraud, there are still a lot of Democrats voting for the Democrat Party Cabal's political message.
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