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On 11/6/2024 2:21 PM, Cursitor Doom wrote:
> On Wed, 6 Nov 2024 09:09:02 -0600, Crash Gordon <uucp@crashelex.com>
> wrote:
> 
>> On 11/5/2024 11:06 AM, Crash Gordon wrote:
>>> I pledge to accept the election results as certified by the states.  I
>>> challenge all other candidates to make the same pledge.
>>
>> It turns out this pledge was unnecessary.  I did *not* see that coming!
>> I was sure it would be at least a week before we had definitive results,
>> that they would be very close, and that there would be multiple challenges.
>>
>> I am as agog as most democrats at this point.
> 
> It was never close. That was just another MSM lie so it would be
> easier to fix the result again. But Trump was *so* far ahead that any
> fix would have been easily exposed as such. It was just too risky to
> even contemplate.
The polls were pretty much bang on; that _someone_ would likely sweep 
the swing states was known for weeks, months. The scenarios where swing 
states got split were statistically unlikely.

Running a candidate like Kamala who had not even a primary mandate and 
three months to do a not particularly inspiring campaign up against a 
billionaire celebrity like Trump was a big gamble, anyone with a brain 
knew that. Did the Democrats? Who can say..