It’s time we start using this word
President-elect Joe Biden is now ahead of Trump by more than seven million votes and counting. If you mathematically compare Biden’s 2020 win to other modern presidential elections, you’ll see that while it was definitely not a landslide, it was in fact a comparative blowout. In fact it’s the second largest win by a non-incumbent in more than a century. We need to start using that word: blowout. It’ll give us leverage with the general public when we start helping promote Biden’s agenda in office.
There are those on our side who are still obsessed with scenarios about how the election could have gone the other way, or too busy lamenting about how anyone voted for Trump at all. In nearly every presidential election you can always make the theoretical argument that if certain things had happened in certain states, it could have been doomsday. But this kind of hand wringing and fretting does us absolutely no good whatsoever.
In fact that kind of fretting is harmful to our cause, because it steers us away from the narrative that can actually help us: Biden won in a blowout. The factual reality is that modern U.S. Presidential elections exist within a relatively narrow mathematical range, and that Biden’s 2020 win was on the blowout side of that range.
