How Joe Biden Won

[applegrove]

How Joe Biden Won

https://politicalwire.com/2021/06/30/how-joe-biden-won/

June 30, 2021 at 3:01 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard 20 Comments

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A new Pew Research analysis finds that even as Donald Trump was narrowing Democrats’ margins with white women and Hispanic voters in the 2020 presidential election, Joe Biden was surging with other groups, like suburbanites, white men and voters who identified as independents.

Politico: “Pew’s survey of ‘validated voters’ — members of their survey panel whom they could match as people who cast ballots on state voter files — is among the deepest analyses of who voted in the last presidential election and how. And because Pew also conducted similar studies of the 2016 and 2018 electorates, it’s possible to track how both parties’ coalitions evolved across the Trump era — and where the battle lines for the 2022 midterm elections may fall.”

Nate Cohn: “Married men and veteran households were probably not the demographic groups that Democrats assumed would carry the party to victory over Donald Trump in the 2020 election. But Joe Biden’s apparent strength among traditionally moderate or even conservative constituencies, and especially men, is emerging as one of the hallmarks of his victory.”

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[Budi]

1. Joe Biden won because he's Joe fking Biden.

Spare the deep analysis.

He stood on the stage at the 1st Primary debate & quietly walked on, head assuredly held high, straight to the Oval Office.

That's because he's Joe Biden.

No showboatin', No bullshittin.
No fancy mocked up ad campaign.
Hard as they tried to lob scandal bombs in his way, Joe just kept being Joe till he sat behind Barack's desk & carried on like it was just another day at the Oval Office for him.

He knew what needed to be done & without boisterous grandstanding or media making headlines,.. went to work.

That is how Joe Biden became our President.

Its simple.

[applegrove]

2. +1000

[Budi]

3. You know what else? To compare future voter's choices against Biden's in 2020 is moot.

Should Biden run a 2nd term I expect a repeat for him.

Everyone else is pretty much unpredictable as 2020 statistics go, they are all on their own.
Unless they're Joe Biden, of course

His was a uniique moment in a crisis of America. He was the man for the moment.
An only because he's, Joe Biden.

We are grateful.

[applegrove]

4. Biden

[Budi]

5. IKR? We are so darned fortunate

[brush]

7. Rep Clyburn and Black voters had a huge hand in it. Don't forget.

[Budi]

8. Absolutely. Our Democratic base that has always known where they belong & always return the loyalty

If ever there was a weathervane guiding undecideds, it would be the Black voting base.

And House Majority Whip James Clyburn is their weathervane.
He represents their history & guides their future.
Like Joe Biden, Rep Clyburn is trust & honesty.
Humility, faith & always a righteous eye on justice.

💙

[empedocles]

6. Joe Biden deliberately campaigned to a broader base than some wanted.

' . . . But Joe Biden’s apparent strength among traditionally moderate or even conservative constituencies, and especially men, is emerging as one of the hallmarks of his victory.”

[Budi]

10. Yup.

[Ligyron]

9. I fear that many just voted against Trump.

If the GrOPers run a halfway sane candidate next time …

We need to get everybody on our team whatever voter ID is needed and the state D parties have to do whatever is required to foil their efforts at disenfranchisement and get our voters votes counted.

Hopefully, a lot of these voter restrictions will be tossed in court and enough bills helping the average Americans will be passed such that they see who’s really on their side and will vote accordingly.

[empedocles]

11. Agree. Hopefully, also, that the courts come through in the next year, as they did in 2020.

That would, imo, moderate further the centrist type voters to the Dem side.

[MatthewG.]

12. Biden wasn't my first choice. That said, we got very lucky.

Biden wasn’t my first choice for the job. (I was more drawn to Warren’s intellectual acumen.)

That said, we got very lucky in that Biden has a uniquely strong appeal to large parts of what used to be called “Middle America”, or whatever’s left of it. Given how close the race was (electorally, anyway) I think it’s safe to say that’s what pushed him over the top in the end, although every Democratic voter who participated or volunteered deserves a little credit, and of course the main Democratic constituencies certainly pulled through for Biden.

I don’t think any other candidate up for the Presidency this past cycle would have beaten Trump. Honestly, I think a Trump re-election would have been a catastrophic defeat not just for progressive and moderate Americans, but for the entire planet. Thank goodness that was averted.

[applegrove]

13. I agree.

[WarGamer]

14. Translation: Biden won because people saw him as "Safe" and a return to normalcy.

That's a fact.

And his style of cool and competent governance is winning.

[applegrove]

15. +1