Reply #13: it isn't possible [View All]

[m berst]

To have this kind of new voters going substantially to an incumbent with the approval ratings he had makes no sense. The results show something that common sense and all other data and the wisdom from all past election experience contradict. You just don't get a turnout like that and lose. You don't have exit poll numbers like that and lose.

So something weird happened. There may be some secret unexplained new growth of the Republican party. It is possible. Ideas for explaining that have been floated. At first we were told of a massive religious right turn out. When that fell through, the war became the reason.

Or the numbers for the results are phony.

Either way, we have entered uncharted territory. Either the Democratic party knows nothing anymore about how voters act, nothing about how to get the vote out and nothing about how to campaign, in which case we are in big trouble and may never win an election, or the election was rigged, in which case we are in big trouble and may never win an election.