re: #100 Big Beautiful Door

Assuming the election process isn’t completely stymied by GOP fraud, voter intimidation, or foreign interference, I’m cautiously optimistic going forward.

This is kind of long, so feel free to ignore it, but I think there was a real sea change in presidential elections in 1992. Let’s look at elections since WWII:

Truman, wartime president, beat the Axis, barely pulls out a squeaker against an absolute nonentity.

Then there’s Eisenhower. To be fair, he would have won running in either party and they both courted him.

John Kennedy—young, charismatic—barely wins over the near-universally despised “Tricky Dicky” Nixon.

Johnson landslide—due to sympathy at JFK’s assassination and the unprecedentedly radical GOP candidate.

“Tricky Dicky” handily beats sitting VP.

Nixon landslide.

Carter beats Ford—IMO, solely because of the Nixon pardon.

Reagan beats Carter.

Reagan landslide.

Bush beats Dukakis.

So from 1948 to 1988, it seems to take very special circumstances for a Democrat to win.

!992—Bill Clinton wins. Some say that was due to Hross Pea-Row, but that’s baloney. The status quo was running, anybody who wanted the status quo could have voted for it. Without Pea-Row the margin would have been even better.

Clinton handily reelected.

Bush loses by half a million votes, requires Electoral jiggery-pokery and a bought-and-paid-for Supreme court to be installed.

Bush—a “wartime president”—is reelected by an amazingly small margin, and only election fraud in Ohio prevented Kerry from winning an Electoral victory from 3 million votes behind, like tRump.

Obama trounces McCain.

Obama handily reelected.

tRump loses election by 3 million votes, installed in the White House by Electoral jiggery-pokery and Russian interference.

So am I wrong, or doesn’t it look like from 1992 to date, it requires special circumstances for a Republican to be elected, in contrast to 1948-88?

I remain cautiously optimistic about 2020, while realizing all sorts of election fraud, voter intimidation, and foreign interference can still happen.