{"id":88781,"date":"2024-11-22T06:47:34","date_gmt":"2024-11-22T12:47:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=88781"},"modified":"2024-11-22T06:56:07","modified_gmt":"2024-11-22T12:56:07","slug":"not-close-enough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=88781","title":{"rendered":"Not Close Enough?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Joe Doakes, formerly of Como Park, emails:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Thank you to everyone who Voted as Hard as They Could.\u00a0 It paid off.\u00a0 The election was not stolen.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I have a parenthetical thought that doesn’t pertain to Joe. I don’t want to interrupt the flow, so I’ll hit that at the bottom of the post. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Back to Joe, who has the same question I had the day after the election:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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But I still have a lingering question or two.\u00a0 What happened to those 81 million 2020 Biden voters?\u00a0 They didn’t go to Trump – he got fewer votes this time than last.\u00a0 They didn’t stay home – Kamala got as many votes as Hillary.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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Did they ever exist?\u00a0 Or is this graphic proof of a stolen election after all?\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

My first principle is to never assume malice when stupidity and sloth are equally possible. The drop in Trump voters indicates that it’s at least partly the expiration of Covid-era voting rules that allowed people to submit ballots via their DoorDash driver, or by blinking three times during a Zoom meeting. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But that is <\/em>a lot of disappeared Democrat voters. Which may speak just as well to the “sloth” thing. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

OK.\u00a0 Discuss. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Deferred Parenthetical Thought:<\/strong> And again, pinky swear, isn’t aimed at Joe – I get the point he’s going for (or at least the one he will go for when I’m done interrupting), but could we retire the phrase “Vote Harder?” Smug anarcho libertarians have beaten that one to death. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

We get it. You’re splendidly above the muggles and our quaint delusions.\u00a0 <\/p>\n

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