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Maybe its closer than expected but Joe will win. I'm looking forward to the popular vote numbers (Original Post) captain queeg Nov 2020 OP
...and massively irrelevant. regnaD kciN Nov 2020 #1
it can still be a landslide AlexSFCA Nov 2020 #2
Popular vote means nothing. PTWB Nov 2020 #3

regnaD kciN

(26,044 posts)
1. ...and massively irrelevant.
Wed Nov 4, 2020, 10:32 PM
Nov 2020

Frankly, I think we're at the point of being forced to recognize that, in American "democracy," the popular vote win is only good as a trivia contest answer. So far, since 2000, 40% of the time, the popular vote winner lost (and if, God forbid, Trump holds on in PA and GA and catches up in AZ, it'll become 50% of the time). What does that tell you about America as a "democracy in name only" nowadays?

AlexSFCA

(6,137 posts)
2. it can still be a landslide
Wed Nov 4, 2020, 10:32 PM
Nov 2020

if he wins GA, NC and PA, in addition to AZ and NV. Potentially flipping two staunch GOP strongholds such as AZ and GA - is insane achievement. Not to mention Biden is getting more votes than at any time in the entire US history. It is possibly a massive landslide. MILLIONS more votes than Raegan won. I swear dem leaders and voters alike SUCK at messaging. This will be only 4th time in over two centuries that an incumbent president is beaten. GOP would kills to be us right now and would scream from every outlet - landslide, landslide, landslide...

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