Interesting observation about the vote counts

[tango]

I read an interesting article on the New York Post's web site. It noted that Joe Biden has received the highest popular vote in the history of the US. The second-highest popular vote in the history of the US was recorded by..... Donald Trump in 2020. That's right, the man who has been so relentlessly presented as the human face of evil itself received the second-highest number of votes in the history of the country.

The political leanings of the NYP aside, Trump's achievement in the election is remarkable when viewed through such a lens. What's even more remarkable, given the endless presentation of Trump as a racist and a white supremacist, is the growing number of black and Latin men who voted for him. The number of native Hawaiians and Alaskans who voted for him appear even higher. I would wonder if they got the memo that he's a white supremacist but frankly I think you'd have to have lived under a rock for half a decade to not know what the mainstream thinks of Trump.

 

[Lamb]

Refresh my memory, why is Trump a racist again? I mean he wasn't a racist before he ran for office and everyone gathered around him and was his friend.

 

[tango]

Refresh my memory, why is Trump a racist again? I mean he wasn't a racist before he ran for office and everyone gathered around him and was his friend.

Because orangemanbad. I thought everybody knew that by now.

 

[Josiah]

I read an interesting article on the New York Post's web site. It noted that Joe Biden has received the highest popular vote in the history of the US. The second-highest popular vote in the history of the US was recorded by..... Donald Trump in 2020. That's right, the man who has been so relentlessly presented as the human face of evil itself received the second-highest number of votes in the history of the country.

The political leanings of the NYP aside, Trump's achievement in the election is remarkable when viewed through such a lens. What's even more remarkable, given the endless presentation of Trump as a racist and a white supremacist, is the growing number of black and Latin men who voted for him. The number of native Hawaiians and Alaskans who voted for him appear even higher. I would wonder if they got the memo that he's a white supremacist but frankly I think you'd have to have lived under a rock for half a decade to not know what the mainstream thinks of Trump.

I agree.

If I were the Democrat Party, I'd be worried.... very worried. From their perspective, Trump was THE worst president in US history, an idiot, a moron, an embarrassment to everyone. AND they went to great lengths to get Biden as their candidate because all the polls showed he was the most electable with the least negatives. AND YET Trump got the second highest vote count of all candidates for president in US history and Biden barely, just barely beat him (even in the midst of the worse pandemic in a century).

Obviously, the Democrat Party doesn't have the issues or the candidate. From their perspective, it took the WORST. most hated, most dispised, most stupid opponent on the planet AND a terrible pandemic for their candidate to squeak a victory by the slimmest of margins.




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[Forgiven1]

Another group of voters for Biden was the "never Trump" group. I know of some who voted for Biden simply because he isn't Trump.

 

[tango]

I read another article recently that said Biden's coalition was very broad, but also very shallow. It made many similar points - a coalition of the silly left fringe, the more sensible moderate Democrats, the moderate Republicans who wanted to get rid of Trump, and the floating voters who didn't want Trump any more. The election isn't even finalised and already the Democrats are starting the infighting, with moderates claiming that the issues endlessly pushed by liberal activists is costing them elections and the progressive wing apparently thinking they should have spent more time going door-to-door (apparently the coronavirus leaves you alone if you're canvassing, or maybe the woke wing didn't get the memo about the pandemic) and that the problem wasn't that millions of moderates don't want to defund the police.

My guess is that come 2022 there should be at least something of a red wave, although how strong it is will most likely depend on just what Biden does between now and then (assuming, of course, that he's still coherent in two more years).