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Rocknation
Rocknation's Journal
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January 11, 2021
Analysis accomplished, WaPo -- you're welcome.
rocktivity
Trump's (AND Biden's) "new" votes ALL came from those who DIDN'T vote in 2016
due to being too young or too apathetic.
Trump lost because Biden got nearly 60% of them (which is why I consider this WaPo "analysis" to be "fake news"):
In 2016, 129 million people voted Democrat or Republican.
In 2020, 155 million people voted Democrat or Republican -- an increase of 26 million.
In 2016, Trump got 63 million votes and DIDN'T get 66 million votes.
In 2020, Trump got 74 million votes -- an increase of 11 million votes over 2016.
Add the 15 million votes that Trump DIDN'T get in 2020 from those who DIDN'T vote in 2016
to the 66 million votes that Trump DIDN'T get in 2016 -- and you get 81 million votes.
In 2020, Joe Biden got 81 million votes.
In 2020, Biden got four million votes more from those who didn't vote in 2016 than Trump did.
Add those 4 million votes to the three million votes by which Trump lost the popular vote in 2016 -- and you get seven million votes.
Biden's 2020 margin of victory was seven million votes.
Analysis accomplished, WaPo -- you're welcome.
rocktivity
January 6, 2021
A month earlier, I had contended that "No one is going down for Breonna's death criminally because nothing criminal happened to her." While it's not the cops' fault they'd been sent there, her name being on the warrant was the result of a deliberate criminal act -- now there are grounds for demanding criminal justice!
rocktivity
"Four search warrants had been approved, at least one of them was no-knock,
and at least one of them contained Breonna's name and address. If they SHOULDN'T have been on the warrant, THAT'S legitimate grounds for civil (if not criminal) charges."
-- (Rocktivity, 10/30/2020)
A month earlier, I had contended that "No one is going down for Breonna's death criminally because nothing criminal happened to her." While it's not the cops' fault they'd been sent there, her name being on the warrant was the result of a deliberate criminal act -- now there are grounds for demanding criminal justice!
rocktivity
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