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Donald Trump — The Best Democrat We Ever Had.

Mike Weisser
4 min readOct 10, 2022

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In four weeks, Americans will have their first opportunity to demonstrate how they feel about January 6th. Forget the polls, forget the pundits, forget the interviews — votes count.

And if the vote totals from previous elections tell me what I think they are telling me, we are going to see how much Trump means to the Democratic Party for the third, successive time.

Let’s remember that Trump was an unknown quantity when he ran in 2016. And he won by the thinnest of margins against an opponent who not only had negatives that were worse than Trump’s downside when the campaign began, but she basically stopped campaigning a month before the campaign came to an end.

And let’s also not forget that Trump won because he flipped three states — MI, PA, WI — by less than 2% of the total votes cast in those three states and he lost the popular balloting by 3 million votes.

Now let’s briefly pause our discussion about current electoral happenings and look back slightly in time.

In 2000, when Bush and the Supreme Court beat Al Gore, 105 million Americans went to the polls. In the 2002 mid-term vote, total ballots were 70 million, or 60% of the voters who participated in the previous general election which chose not just who would control Congress, but who would control the White House as well.

In the next Presidential election, which was 2004 when Bush swift-boated John Kerry, the total vote count was 115 million. The…

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Mike Weisser
Mike Weisser

Written by Mike Weisser

Former college professor, IT Vice-President, bone fide gun nut, https://www.teeteepress.net/

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