The Insane aspect of the 2020 election no one is talking about
The 2020 election was an existential threat to democracy. The damage that Trump did to our system of government (in addition to the half a million American lost lives that he is responsible for) is but a preface to the harm he would have done with an additional four years with all the people willing to say no to him out of the administration.
Then there were the endless challenges as well as the bare faced attempt to set aside the results for purely partisan reasons. And then there was the attempt to disrupt the certification of the results by violent insurgents egged on by Donald Trump himself.
So it’s understandable but not acceptable that in the midst of claims of irregular results it’s not being discussed every night on TV that the Republicans, in an abysmal year for the Republican brand, won 27 out of 27 elections that were considered too close to call. That is an insane result. While the probability of a toss up election is not as clear cut as a coin toss, to be off on every single one in twenty seven instances is an insane anomaly, the Mount Everest of outliers. This prediction by the Cook report, couldn’t be more wrong, literally.
Wikipedia has a section on election ratings from 2008 to 2020 so we can see how the Cook report, which called those 27 elections as toss ups, performed…
