(11-07-2020, 03:46 PM)Lucky2Last Wrote:

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