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Now what does America do?

 There was long talk of a "Blue wave" but in reality despite his character and his failures Trump remains strong in the race to remain in the White House.  Trump's biggest success has been the rise of the national debt from US$ 19 trillion to US$ 27 Trillion.   Under Trump we have seen the single largest increase in the national debt -- at a time when the economy was "doing well".  that is what made Americans vote for Trump in 2020 -- I'm I better off today than I was 4 years ago!  A surprisingly large percentage of the population 45% have said they are better off with only about 35% saying they are worse off.  That kind of cash injection into the economy will create wealth! The reality is that this a tremendous advantage.  people vote with their wallet and their conscience -- you may not agree with your neighbor he may be an immigrant completely against immigration, it can be a neighbor who sees only one factor affecting their voting decision:  Abortion! 

These single issues are often the sole reason people decide to vote -for a specific party - a large percentage of the population will vote for "their party" without knowing anything about its policies, they simply don't care.

Clearly many polls were wrong! Iowa is certainly a massive outlier with polling showing Biden with an 8% edge and Trump winning by 4% -- that is a massive difference, how did the polls get it so very wrong?

The question is now what?  It looks like Biden will win by a small majority of electoral college voters -- right now it could take a while for the results to finally come out.  Certain states counted the votes as they arrive others counted them afterward, this for many reasons but mostly because absentee ballots used to be such a small number of voters -- often it didn't matter -- if one candidate won by 30,000 votes and there were only 20,000 absentee ballots...  

First, I suspect that Trump will be quiet because both candidates need to win some of the absentee ballots, too many races are still wide open, but in places where absentee ballots can make the difference...for the democrats expect lawsuits to stop the counting.


By hook or by crook Trump aims to win


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