By Dr. Brian C. Joondeph | Commentary, American Thinker
Election 2024 is in the rearview mirror. Pollsters won’t be bombarding voters anymore. Today’s entertainment is liberal heads exploding on social media or the latest Democrat threatening – but not actually following through on – everything from drinking cyanide to setting themselves on fire to leaving the country if Donald Trump won the election.
So far, few have followed through on their promises, although a handful have left the country. Good riddance to them.
Trump did win, bigly, in a landslide of sorts. He won the Electoral College handily, 312 to 226. Trump also won the popular vote, 49.9% to 48.3%. As a divided country, the popular vote will always be close. Thus, in 1980, when the country was deeply divided but ordinary people were beginning to have had enough of Democrat governance, Reagan won 44 states but did so with only 50.7% of the popular vote. Even in 1984, after four successful years, while Reagan won 49 states, he still garnered only 58.8% of the popular vote — a big number, to be sure, but not an overwhelming one.
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