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Actually, that's another bizarre number to add to the pile. For reference before I get into it: America has 3,141 counties in total.
The President who won the fewest counties during their election anywhere in U.S. history--within reason because I'm not digging back to when we had like 15 counties and random-ass political parties like the Whigs--was Barack Obama, in 2012. He won the popular vote by about 5 million and took the Electoral College by about 62 votes, but he only won 689 counties in the U.S. (~30% of the total) The lowest number in the history of this country for a victorious party.
The map broken down by county doesn't look too off the mark from what people have come to expect if you're using to seeing the country broken down by county, but you'll notice something: Obama managed to pull in support from a scattershot of random places, it wasn't just isolated to the cities.
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Now here's the odd part: Obama doesn't hold the record, anymore. In the 2020 election, as it currently stands, Joe Biden has only won 477 counties, (15% of the total) which is 212 fewer than Obama in his 2012 election, and yet he's garnered 9 million more votes than Obama's 2012 run. Likewise, Republicans didn't suffer any serious losses, and they've thus far taken 12 more seats for themselves in the run-offs and re-counts.
Joe Biden and the Democrats got absolutely stomped in every conceivable metric that I can find; they picked up no new seats in the Senate, no new seats in the house, they set the new record for the fewest counties won by a "victorious" party by more than 200 counties fewer than the previous record-holder, and yet... Somehow I'm supposed to believe that Biden swept the floor with more votes than any other Presidential candidate in the history of this entire country.
This just doesn't make any fucking sense no matter what angle I swing from.
Joe truly is a God, a strategic genius to put Sun-Tsu, Hannibal, Alexander and Caesar to shame. Such precise wording to coo the nigger vote, deadly efficient campaigning -- not a superfluous excursion out of the basement. The Karen running mate to appeal to suburban moms.
Breathtaking, truly the man is either supernatural or some kind of Quantum-AI. He doesn't have a stutter nor does he suffer from cognitive decline, he merely left us Dog-Faced Pony Soldiers behind eons ago.