Where did all the "new" voters come from?

There was not a great deviation from the total votes of Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama but this year, the voting totals shot up like a rocket.

In 2016, Hillary and Trump together garnered about 132 million votes.

In 2020, it looks like the final vote tally will be about 150-155 million votes. That is about 20 million votes more than were cast in 2016.

Where did they come from? In my opinion, it was mostly from young voters, who up til this election, had not been very involved in politics. Whatever is said about Trump, he was able to get people out to vote - on both sides.

At first glance it appears that the Democrats were able to get about 10 million more votes in this election and the Republicans were able to garner about 8 million more voters than in 2016.

An outstanding question may be, which Party will be able to keep these voters in the flock?

Were many of the Republican voters just following the cult of personality?

The future will tell.

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Does a pardon apply to future crimes?

Because, you know that if Donald Trump is pardoned today, he will likely commit another crime tomorrow. It's in his blood. He is drawn to criminality.

Of course, no crimes have officially been defined at this moment, so what would be the need for any pardon?

November 7th should be called Democracy Day and should be a national holiday.

The American people do not yet understand the full nature or the full threat against our democracy. It was an all-out assault.

If Trump had gotten four more years, it is very possible our democracy would not have survived. He had gained control of the Executive, the Judicial, and half of the Legislative Branches of government. Luckily, Democrats had gained control of the House in 2018. Democracy was clinging by one-half of one Branch of government.

The threat is far from over. Almost half of this nation was propagandized to believe the rantings and grievances of a madman-wanna-be dictator, and was caught up in the hype and misinformation of the power-hungry fascists. There was nothing they would not do to maintain power.

In my opinion, November 7th is a date we should commemorate to remind us to be more vigilant against tyrants and strongmen, looking to destroy our institutions and our freedoms.