(11-07-2020, 11:49 AM)NeptuneBeachBum Wrote:

(11-07-2020, 11:37 AM)Lucky2Last Wrote: It's not just GA. I have been telling you that. It's an abnormality in GA, PA, WI, and MI. It didn't drive it up every where. You would think you would see national trends. You don't. This is the point I am making. You see some national trends with Biden. You see some trends with Trump. Both did better than 2016. Biden did have a larger turnout than Hillary. However, there are like 8 counties that are statistical anomalies. Biden won the states that had them and you don't find them anywhere else. Not in blue states. Not in red states with blue counties. This is the point I am making.

Your point should be obvious.  There would be less concentrated efforts by Democrats in a Red state like Alabama (where they have no shot of winning) or a blue state like NY (where they will clearly win) to drive up their voters than in swing states like GA, PA, WI, and MI.  Seems obvious that the Democrats had an amazing grassroots effort their to drive turn out against the most unpopular president in US history.  Quite simple.

Oh, and it just so happens that a water main breaks in the most populous county in the state and they have to wait until all other vote totals are in before they can finish voting... I mean COUNTING.  

You keep saying most unpopular like that actually means something.  You are talking about a candidate that got the second most popular votes in the history of the republic and the largest amount of non-white votes for the GOP since 1960.  Trump was up in every minority demographic and 4 to 5 points in the black community so your major thesis doesn't hold. 

Going back to the Obama years, the kind of ethnic backlash that you are espousing happened EVERYWHERE!  Parts of Ohio, Texas, every major urban area had inordinate black turnout.  In this case its only in GA, MI, PA and Wisconsin.  The 4 states that were within striking distance and the left thought they would need to flip in order to win the presidency.  

True enough, Right now all we have are irregular or unnatural trends.  But, in a place like Michigan you had a popular Black senatorial candidate that would normally be an additional boost to the GOP candidate OVERPERFORMING with blacks, not facing a singular turnout model.  Now in MI you have a documented case of a voting machine spitting out a vote for a Dem when the lever was pulled for the GOP.  I find it interesting that the Mayor of Philly is so quick for trump to concede.  If they have the numbers then why not prove it.  Right now you have tallies compiled by people who hate trumps guts and you have election poll watchers being kicked out of Philadelphia polling stations.  This will probably only amount to GOP folklore to motivate us in the next election, but no reasonable person would deny that there is some smoke there.

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