The 2024 Election —What did we learn?

Guy Chamberlin said:
Nothing will stop the second guessing and hindsight, and although it was definitely a spanking by the GOP it's still the story of 2% swings in key states that had different 2% swings four years ago.
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You are largely correct in your post, but I tools say that 2024 can also be described as "the biggest Republican win possible".

Had Biden stayed in the race, it would've been truly catastrophic. However, replacing him with a candidate capable of messaging improved them from 'catastrophic' to 'biggest loss reasonable'. Honestly, partisanship is just to high for either party to win by much more than Republicans did in 2024. The only way wins can be bigger would be if your candidate cannot talk or the country is experiencing deep financial turmoil.

 
Dr. Strangelove said:
So because Trump himself and true MAGA believers are kind of stupid dips#!ts, they told their idiotic voters that voting by mail was a bad idea - as a prerequisite for their plan to tell their legion of drooling supporters that the election was stolen. Instead he barely lost by ~24k votes across a few states and likely wins if he encouraged his voters to vote by mail. 
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I can’t argue with this.  Seems spot on. 

 
I feel like Greenland is one of those places that 

1.  You will never meet anyone from Greenland

2.  You will never meet anyone that has gone to Greenland.

 
Lorewarn said:
Feels like we might be going through a crazy scenario where all the Nobel prize winning economists who said Trump’s economic policies were inflationary and would be bad for interest rates are going to be proven as knowing what they're talking about
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The same ones who said the same s#!t in 2016?   Ohhh. Ok  :laughpound

 
BigRedBuster said:
Actually, I know several people who have gone there recently on vacations and say it's an amazing place to visit.  One young couple actually took their honeymoon there.
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That is cool!

I was bored one day and looked into teaching there, seemed like it was not super easy to get a job there.

 
Archy1221 said:
The same ones who said the same s#!t in 2016?   Ohhh. Ok  :laughpound
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No idea if it's the same people or not, but I do know that before someone's in office we can only weigh in on what they say they're going to do vs being able to evaluate how it actually went in hindsight. I do know that there were a number of educated folks at least claiming in 201t that Trump's policies would increase the deficit by about 5 trillion over two terms, and they weren't too far off (actually underestimated it a bit). He ended up at a hefty 3.9 trillion in one term, 6.6 trillion if you count COVID measures.

 
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