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Voter suppression. Voting in a working day. Need to register for voting. Legal battles. Inconsistent rules. A refusing to leave president. Is this the model of government that the USA bomb other countries for?
Meet the new boss, Same as the old boss
-The Who
What's more surprising is how close this was given the past four years.
Headline is false. Biden is projected by the media to defeat Trump. Biden is not President-elect. The President is elected in mid December by the electoral college. Tens of millions of people are about to get a crash course in civics.
Don't forget that this is coming from the Twitter ACAB folks celebrating a cop as vice president and potentially taking over the presidency. Guess they're also blind to that one aren't they?
If people agree it was tumultuous why was the race still so close? I really think adding little adjectives like that undermines the respectedness of the NYT
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Are we watching the same election? We just had an election with historic turnout and easy voting and Biden will have won by less than Obama did twice. Against a historically unpopular President in the middle of a pandemic. Doesn’t that suggest the map is about as blue as we thought? Also, the “red team” has been actively helping expand voter access all over the country. The Republican Georgia Secretary of State and t…
This election should be a wake up call to entire country and Democrats in particular. There was no blue wave, if anything Biden has barely squeaked past the post. If it were not for the pandemic I'm convinced the Trump turnout for this election would have produced results rivaling Reagan in 1984. Even with a pandemic he was able to drive more voters to the polls on election day than any point in American history.
Trump under-performed his 2016 margins in 38 states, including many deep red ones.
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It was "close" because the counting was so slow. If Pennsylvania was allowed to count early votes beforehand, it would've been obvious that Trump was not going to have a chance there.
Eh, 20k vote margins in states that used to be taken for granted is pretty bad. Not to mention the down ballot disaster this has been for Dems.
This is getting flagged every 2 minutes. What is going on?
Reddit is repeatedly failing to load and I assume this is why