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I’m not even sure what you’re trying to argue. Let me break it down for

you:

Wisconsin - margin of around 20K votes
PA — margin of around 30-40K votes unless it grows with provisional ballots
AZ — margin of 20K votes and shrinking
GA — margin of a few thousand votes.

Michigan is the only key state Biden won comfortably. As we saw in 2016, despite the Dem doing similarly well nationally a few small shifts in those fickle states can change the outcome drastically. Despite the fact that you’re really only talking about one region that doesn’t look much like the rest of America.

Meanwhile he’s winning Cali by up to 5 million votes and competitive in every big red state.

Not a hard concept to see the problem. It’s a dumb and antiquated system that I’ve never heard an intelligence defense of.

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Posted: 11/07/2020 at 7:22PM

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