(11-07-2020, 03:43 PM)TheO-LineMatters Wrote:

(11-07-2020, 01:53 PM)Lucky2Last Wrote: Does this explain the down-ballot issues in the same states? When you compare Biden in these swing states to EVERY other state in the country, there is a difference between Joe Biden and the democratic candidates down-ballot. This can't be explained by Republicans that voted for Joe, because it's a disparity of numbers on the total votes. Meaning that there are hundreds of thousands of ballots in swing states only where no one voted for a candidate for the Senate or House. Only for Joe. This isn't occurring in other blue counties. Oh, btw, it's also just in the few counties with the huge irregularities. So this grassroots campaign forgot to tell these voters to vote for all democrats?

I don't find this odd at all. There was one race for the House on my ballot that I left blank as well. It was a Muslim woman with extremely left leaning ideas vs. a right wing nut job. I wasn't gonna endorse either one of them, so I left that section blank. I also know many people (unfortunately,) that don't educate themselves about candidates running for senate or the house or any other local races. They only pay attention to the presidential election, so that's all that they vote for. It's actually extremely common and it drives me nuts! People need to start taking these other races seriously, because sooner or later the candidates you ignore who get voted into the local offices, turn into candidates like Biden and Trump and we stay in a constant flux of chaos. These two old farts should've never been the last candidates standing in the first place.

You aren't getting the statistical anomaly side of this. If it were occurring everywhere I would totally agree with you. My first thought was that it was young people or the politically disinterested that showed up just vote Trump out, but I couldn't find a similar trend in other counties. I had to look at district races in states that didn't have a senator on the ballot, but you don't see that happening anywhere else but those few counties.

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