re: #349 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)

I keep going back to this but this isn’t one election. It’s 51. Yes, we all voted for Joe but some of us voted for our incumbent Senator, a challenger, or some have no Senate race at all. There’s only so much Barr can do. And Barr has only so much power. He was unable to get a kangaroo indictment and that from what I understand has Trump furious at him. These guys I think even if they wanted to aren’t competent enough to steal a landslide defeat. Florida in 2000 worked because the margin of victory between Gore and Bush was razor thin. Trump is likely to lose the deciding states by hundreds of thousands of votes. I choose to be hopeful because I know and have seen that when we vote, we can and will beat these bastards.

fwiw, the issue of who won, bush or gore, that led to bush v gore, wasnt a pre-election strategy. not the way we’re all gaming out hundreds of what-if scenarios this year.

it was the outcome of more-or-less legitimate questions that no one specifically targeted or anticipated.

yes it arose from a fair degree of shortsightedness, a bit of incompetence, and certainly some arcane voting mechanisms in Florida, especially Palm Beach (where i voted that year). and certainly some post hoc chicanery as well.

but it was no one’s plan going in