This was reported by J. B. Shurk in the Federalist on November 23, 2020:
In all the excitement among objective journalists for Joe Biden’s declared victory, reporters are missing how extraordinary the Democrat’s performance was in the 2020 election. It’s not just that the former vice president is on track to become the oldest president in American history, it’s what he managed to accomplish at the polls this year.
Candidate Joe Biden was so effective at animating voters in 2020 that he received a record number of votes, more than 15 million more than Barack Obama received in his re-election of 2012. Amazingly, he managed to secure victory while also losing in almost every bellwether county across the country. No presidential candidate has been capable of such electoral jujitsu until now.
While Biden underperformed Hillary Clinton’s 2016 totals in every urban county in the United States, he outperformed her in the metropolitan areas of Georgia, Michigan, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania. Even more surprising, the former VP put up a record haul of votes, despite Democrats’ general failures in local House and state legislative seats across the nation.
He accomplished all this after receiving a record low share of the primary vote compared to his Republican opponent heading into the general election. Clearly, these are tremendous and unexpected achievements that would normally receive sophisticated analysis from the journalist class but have somehow gone mostly unmentioned during the celebrations at news studios in New York City and Washington, D.C.
The massive national political realignment now taking place may be one source of these surprising upsets. Yet still, to have pulled so many rabbits out of his hat like this, nobody can deny that Biden is a first-rate campaigner and politician, the likes of which America has never before seen. Let’s break down just how unique his political voodoo has been in 2020.
The rest of this article details the five ways that President-Elect Joe Biden won the election against all expectations, validating the need for a wise, seasoned, and thoughtful leader for the next four years, such as he. During his campaign, the former vice-president did not need to travel all over the country and hold massive rallies, up to five times a day. On the contrary, he instinctively knew that the way to win was to self-isolate in his basement and only occasionally venture out, properly masked, to give a speech to a dozen reporters and a few brand-new pickup trucks spaced six feet apart in an otherwise empty parking lot. Apparently, the majority of the electorate agreed. Just as they valiantly fought the virus by voting from home via mail, their candidate had the courage to campaign in isolation like everyone else by following the advice of the experts and the rules of the authorities. In the end, democracy came through, as it always does!
From Lefticon:
Democracy – a political system in which the people have the right to vote in periodic elections with outcomes determined by a majority.
In a direct democracy, the people vote on specific issues. In a representative democracy, people vote to elect representatives who, at least theoretically, vote for their collective interests.
A direct democracy can degenerate into a “tyranny of the majority” when those of the majority vote for special benefits and rights for themselves, to the disadvantage of minorities. On the other hand, a majority can be socially engineered to vote against their own interests and for the special interests of a minority.
Under some circumstances, democracy can occur with an initial election, followed by consolidation of power by the majority and the elimination of all opposition, and exist afterwards in name only, or only at lower levels of government such as the local soviets of the USSR.
To protect the people from the devolution of democracy to tyranny, the founders of the United States designed constitutional protections: unalienable rights not subject to the voting process, the tri-partite separation of the powers of government, and judicial resolution of opposing claims.
While the people in a dictatorship have little or no choice in their leaders, those in a liberal democracy vote to choose them. For democracy to work at its full potential, it obviously requires an informed electorate; a moral and competent legislature, judiciary, and executive; and safeguards (enforced penalties) against corruption. Voters can be misled by false campaign promises and manipulated by disinformation, false flags, and media propaganda. The electoral process itself can be corrupted in a variety of ways at the level of the voter (voter fraud) and in the tabulation of the votes (election fraud).
Voter fraud – intentional violation of the voting process by an individual or group.
Examples are votes cast by those who are ineligible to vote, such as non-citizens, non-residents, felons, and the deceased; duplicate voting; paying for votes; harvesting of absentee and mail-in ballots; “assisting” nursing home dementia patients to vote; voter intimidation; forging ballots and signatures.
Voter fraud is a common, unfounded allegation of the political right when one of their candidates loses an election. They claim that, despite the serious penalties, this kind of fraud has become a widely accepted practice because the benefits exceed the risks, especially when moral standards (relative, not absolute) are not a deterrent and the authorities and media are supportive. This sort of baseless accusation is typical of the right and is easily debunked by accredited fact-checkers of the left.
Election fraud – interference with the electoral process during an election after the votes are cast. Also called electoral fraud.
Election fraud is often alleged without evidence by the political right after a lost election. They accuse their opponent of illegal manipulation of the recording, counting, tabulation, and interpretation of election results. Innocent anomalies and computer glitches are attributed to sinister practices like ballot harvesting, ballot creation (forgery), and the use of computer algorithms to alter the count. They target mail-in ballots as especially vulnerable. None of their allegations can withstand the scrutiny of our independent corporate media.