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11/4/2020 6:22:07 PM
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RE: Lots of people in my circle of friends
There's at least one good argument in favor of it possibly having been a landslide and that's when you consider 10 million fewer people voted in 2016 than in 2012. I think it's reasonable to assume most of those would have been democrats given the amount of interest in Trump on the Republican side. Now the lack of voting may have been due in part to people not finding Hillary all that compelling (especially compared to Obama), but I suspect that even more so, there was this presumption by people and media outlets that there's no way Trump could win. Relieved by that notion, people sat home instead of voting. Remember, there was a lot of competitive federal and state legislature/governance campaigns by Democrats in states that tend to be fairly red strongholds. Almost all of it being a pushback against Trump. So yeah, a landslide wasn't necessarily out of the question. I think the tables were slightly turned against democrats after all the rioting, which most moderates found unsettling. Dumb Trump luck.
