Subj : Re: Rampant Stupidificati
To   : KURT WEISKE
From : Mike Powell
Date : Sat Apr 05 2025 09:11:00

> -=> Mike Powell wrote to KURT WEISKE <=-

>  MP> I also find it very ironic that a lot of the same folks who claimed in
>  MP> 2020 that elections cannot be rigged are now convinced that Musk must
>  MP> have done so in 2024.

>  When's the last time any candidate won all swing states?

Didn't Biden come pretty close to doing so (keeping in mind that the "swing
states" differ some each election)?

Other times I remember it happening was when one candidate is a lot weaker
than the other... like Reagan vs. Mondale.  The Democrats switching horses
so late in the race most certainly weakened their ability to stay in power.
Switching to a candidate who had spent most of her four years as VP looking
overwhelmed anytime the spotlight was on her didn't help.  Spending ~100
days before the election looking competent wasn't going to erase that.

If she had spent her four years looking like she did at the second debate,
I likely would have been swayed to vote for her but, as it was, I had to
look somewhere down the list to find someone I felt was competent enough,
reasonable enough, and "not a convicted felon" enough to cast my vote for,
even though their stated policies likely don't align with mine.

Considering that a higher percentage of voters either skipped the
Presidential race, or voted third party, than voted for either Trump or
Harris, I don't doubt there were a lot of voters with a similar mindset to
mine.


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