Not once did Reagan fabricate falsehoods against his predecessor in office. He won 44 out of 50 states, garnering 489 electoral college votes, leaving only 49 votes of the electoral college for Jimmy Carter, the Democratic incumbent against whom he contended. If any American could boast about landslides in electoral performance, it should have been Ronald Wilson Reagan. He seemed to have been absent when God was endowing good manners. Alas, Donald Trump is totally lacking in both virtues he is reprobately conceited in victory, tragically graceless in defeat. election results, what was the basis for Trump’s silly tantrums regarding a landslide victory? Such narcissism! Such self-serving revisionism! Such delusion!Ī time-honored tradition of American politics is to be magnanimous in victory and gracious in defeat. With such verifiable and irrefutable data on previous U.S. George Bush (the father) won the popular votes over Michael Dukakis in 1988 he earned 426 of the electoral college votes. The masterly Bill Clinton twice beat his opponents in the popular votes, winning in the electoral college, 370 votes and 379 votes in 19, respectively.
In the electoral college, he won 365 and 332 votes in 20, respectively. Obama twice beat his opponents in the popular votes. But Bush having beaten Al Gore in the electoral college by only 3 votes in 2000, he, at least, beat John Kerry in the popular votes cast during the 2004 Presidential election. In those 40 years, among those who got elected as President, only George Bush (the son) had performed worse than Donald Trump in the electoral college. I have followed United States elections with exceptionally keen interest since 1980.
It was in his typical display of garrulous exaggeration and shameless dishonesty. The “prophets” would have touted their capability to decode, like Daniel, celestial hieroglyphics on the walls of America.Īfter Trump won the presidency in 2016 despite losing the popular votes by about 3 million votes to Hilary Clinton, he repeatedly referred to his victory as a landslide. President in history to win the electoral college (and thus the presidency) twice despite losing the popular votes. chest-thumping guffaws.īut for Trump’s wanton mishandling of covid19, he would have easily won the electoral college again in 2020. So, the “prophets” take the risk, lying with swagger in the name of God! And so, their profanities continue to be marketed with ebulient theatrics and. The probability of correctly predicting the winner of a contest between two candidates is 50%. Aside from deceptively mouthing breakthroughs for material prosperity, soothsaying is an extremely popular product to offer a generation with itching ears. For most of the gods of men masquerading as men of God, religion is a very profitable business.
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