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No Malarkey!6/01/2018 8:00:53 am PDT

re: #151 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge

Here’s my reasoning, and it’s dependent on a real election being conducted in a normal manner, so…who knows.

tRump got 62,000,000 votes. His cult is rabid, but they’re not all of those. He certainly hasn’t gained any support. I don’t know if those “protest” vote stories were baloney or what, but I don’t see how he breaks 60,000,000 now.

Hillary Clinton, a woman—and sorry, but it matters that she was a woman—who has been on the receiving end of 35 fucking years of nonstop vilification, got 65,000,000 votes. Barack Hussein Obama, a black man with Arabic first and middle names, got 67,000,000 votes 10 years ago, and everyone who voted for him—and others besides—are going to be exceptionally motivated.

I don’t see hoe tRump can pull it out in a normal election. It’s got to be pretty close for the Electoral jiggery-pokery to flip it.

Just remember that a lot can happen over the next two years. If the economic recovery continues, which it could, that will help Trump, if Mueller’s investigation peters out, if the Democrats aren’t unified again, Trump could win with a minority of the vote as he did in 2016.