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Why I Ask MAGAts To Post The Popular Vote Totals, And Why They Won't...
26 Jan 2025 6:53 am
In 2024, Donald Trump won the popular vote by 1.5 points. Trump and Democrats alike treated this result as an overwhelming repudiation of the left and a broad mandate for the MAGA movement. But by any historical measure, it was a squeaker.
IIn 2020, Joe Biden won the popular vote by 4.5 points; in 2016, Hillary Clinton won it by 2.1 points; in 2012, Barack Obama won it by 3.9 points; in 2008, Obama won it by 7.2 points; and in 2004, George W. Bush won it by 2.4 points. You have to go back to the 2000 election to find a margin smaller than Trump’s.
Down ballot, Republicans’ 2024 performance was, if anything, less impressive. In the House, the Republicans’ five-seat lead is the smallest since the Great Depression; in the Senate, Republicans lost half of 2024’s competitive Senate races, including in four states Trump won; among the 11 governor’s races, not a single one led to a change in partisan control. If you handed an alien these election results, they would not read like a tectonic shift.
Trump Barely Won the Popular Vote. Why Doesn’t It Feel That Way?
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/19/opin ... roid-share
"Because it was G*d's will...He loves rapist Grifters." - MAGAFluffer, from his knees.
"But blah, blah, blah....dirt!"
So **** g'ddammned stupid
IIn 2020, Joe Biden won the popular vote by 4.5 points; in 2016, Hillary Clinton won it by 2.1 points; in 2012, Barack Obama won it by 3.9 points; in 2008, Obama won it by 7.2 points; and in 2004, George W. Bush won it by 2.4 points. You have to go back to the 2000 election to find a margin smaller than Trump’s.
Down ballot, Republicans’ 2024 performance was, if anything, less impressive. In the House, the Republicans’ five-seat lead is the smallest since the Great Depression; in the Senate, Republicans lost half of 2024’s competitive Senate races, including in four states Trump won; among the 11 governor’s races, not a single one led to a change in partisan control. If you handed an alien these election results, they would not read like a tectonic shift.
Trump Barely Won the Popular Vote. Why Doesn’t It Feel That Way?
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/19/opin ... roid-share
"Because it was G*d's will...He loves rapist Grifters." - MAGAFluffer, from his knees.
"But blah, blah, blah....dirt!"
So **** g'ddammned stupid