In the right circumstances a dementia patient could get more votes than Obama. I would argue those circumstances existed after 1st term of Trump,
Which was no better or worse than the Obama administration. Before COVID, one could make a strong argument that he was doing pretty well, despite being surrounded by the Dubya sycophants he was stupid enough to bring into his administration.
Granted, we wouldn't know the real damage of COVID until after we realized the government response was worse than the virus. Operation warpspeed was an obscenity that rightfully SHOULD have poleaxed his presidency.
That was after the fact. It had zero bearing on the 2020 election.
All of these polarizing events packed together can and should translate into more votes for a candidate.
Perhaps, but losing all bellweather counties (but one, I think) and still winning the election? Every past marker was thrown into the wind and hardly a peep from the legacy media. And do bear in mind that I've never said that Trump won 2020. I'm just not buying 81 million votes. There is a huge difference between the two.
Obama's election was rigged because really there is no way this country could ever elect a black man as President, right?
LOL, I have no love for Colin Powell, but he deserves credit for showing that the U.S. has moved past this nonsense. We went from a nation that got ticked off at a black woman for refusing to sit in the back of the bus to a nation that got ticked off at a black man who refused to run for president. Back in those days, I cared little for the doings of D.C., but even I caught enough to know this. Mind you, my first vote went to one William Jefferson Clinton.
And let's be real for a minute, Obama's election scorned a bunch of conservative power brokers and they unleashed fury on our politics, government, economy, safety, and general welfare.
Only for a minute, but when it became obvious that Obama was going to continue the Bush war machine and expand the number of countries we were bombing from two to seven, all was forgiven. He took RomneyCare (a Republican healthcare plan) and turned it into ObamaCare. Insurance companies were making money hand-over-fist and so a huzzah was shouted forth from the establishment Uniparty whose campaign coffers relied heavily on these very industries.
Most of the contempt for Obama that oozed out of D.C. Republican pie-holes was nothing more than political theater. There are times when I wondered if it always was. Sigh, I guess it hardly matters now. Republicans have bigger problems than history as the civil war between the America First denomination and the Bush neo-cons continues to rage. The Democrats continue to refuse to acknowledge why they lost in 2024. The Libertarian party is as big a dumpster fire as it has ever been. The only guaranteed winners in any election are the rich who hedge their bets by supporting both sides. The only guaranteed losers are the people who keep showing up at the polls hoping for real change.
Welp, now that I've brought the whole room down, I'll end this with a favorite quote in honor of Rob Reiner. "Good night, Westley. Good work. Sleep well. I'll most likely kill you in the morning."
