Sure, celebrate Biden winning in California.
smh
Even Hillary didn't have help from the coronavirus. This is bleak.
I'm not celebrating it. I'm putting the race into perspective. Biden is generally popular, and a majority did vote for him, unlike Clinton who won a plurality. In the modern era, it is one of the higher ones, and much higher than modern Republicans get. Bush got a smaller victory in 2004. You have to go back to the 80s, a time most of us don't remember/were not born yet to have a bigger Republican victory.
And of course, running up massive margins in California is suboptimal. It would be much better if Democrats won all their states by 53-55%, while Republicans won their races by 90%. But there is no magic button to make that happen. Biden wasn't the candidate California picked anyway, that was Bernie.
Again, the big question is whether it is this narrow because or despite of Biden. There's no way that you can answer that today. You need the total results as well as some days to tabulate them. We'll get that takes by the end of the year. Everybody who does it today, is foolish. And then you can talk about if Sanders would have done better or worse.
I'm going to requote though again and add one more thing:
A larger popular vote with a narrower election result at the same time is just bad for the sanity of the US Political System. Thank you for collecting them though. It bears repeating in this fast-moving thread.
I'm not sure we can ever 100% answer it ever. Elections are inherently small sample sizes in terms of frequency. 2022 and 2024 will have all new conditions and dynamics. And people inherently have pre-existing biases that they use to frame the world. Someone who really didn't like Biden, will crow that Biden sucked, and that is why this happened, and in the alternate universe, nobody can see it was totally better because of X and Y.
More interestingly, is 'What the hell happened to campaign spending'. Democrats disappeared a 100 million into SC and a 100 million in KY and have nothing to show for it. They lost the seat they won in 2018 SC-01. Biden didn't campaign there. It was all Jaime Harrison, Mcgrath and lower House Dems.
Maybe because Trumpo bothered to campaign.
Tell people Biden has a vast lead, give them another excuse to not bother voting if they are of those groups prone to not bother.
Anyway, still early, I hope the literal b team wins, but yeah.
Biden campaigned. Saying otherwise is just lying.
Anyway, a lot of people seemed to immediately forget, that we were all told, that a redshift would happen. That has complicated narratives.
Also, it is funny. Trump is demanding all the votes be counted in Arizona, because he is losing. But they should stop the counts in PA and GA because he is still 'winning'.
https://twitter.com/poniewozik/status/1323860265310498816
Fox saying Trump campaign "livid" about Arizona call, arguing that the network should wait for the outstanding votes to be counted, and who had the Trump camp making THAT argument on their Election Night bingo card?