Originally Posted by kewlJ View Post
Originally Posted by Garnabby View Post
The election was pretty darn close.
The election wasn't that close.

In 2012 Obama beat Romney by 5 million votes and no one thought that election was particularly close. In 2020 Biden won by even more 7 million votes.

Even if you allow for the increase in number of people that voted. 2012 Obama won by 3.9%, but Biden won by 4.4%. Not that close!

The electoral college currently makes some elections look closer than they really are, but even by that standard 2020 wasn't that close. Both 2000 and 2016 that democrats lost were much closer and you didn't see them act like such sore losers jumping up and down screaming.

The only slight oddity about 2020 was the availability of mail voting in many more states. Mail voting has been allowed in 3 or 4 states for 20 years now. So because of Covid, a number of states decided to implement mail voting for the first time. Funny thing, these states like Pennsylvania, Georgia, Nevada, Michigan, Wisconsin, it was the republican that control the state legislatures that voted to allow that. And then republicans took that complaint to court after court and lost every case....most thrown out by republican appointed judges and justices. It is just ridiculous.

add on: and by the way, I am not a proponent of mail voting, except in cases of disabled people unable to get to the voting place. I think people need to make an effort to go out and vote. But, by our laws, each state makes that decision for itself. Maybe that (each state deciding) is what needs to be changed.
I stand corrected. But, in the best of ways. It was just that I found it very, very scary, for a day or two there. What it would have been had Trump won is, I think, truly unimaginable.

Thank you, KJ.