The final popular vote will likely be Trump 49.8% Harris 48.4%

[DemocratSinceBirth]

Not a landslide and not a mandate. The only mandate is to govern.

[Omnipresent]

1. Trump has fallen miserably short of Biden's 2020 win.

That’s something else, Magas don’t want to talk about.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

2. His awfullness makes the results exponentially worse.

[Karadeniz]

3. There is too much rotten. I hope theyre investigating.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

5. The polls indicated a close race. The forecasters forecasted a close race

Joe Biden's 39% approval rating, undeserved in my opinion, sank us.

[Shermann]

13. But but EGGS!!!!111

I think in many ways people normally feel like their homes are disconnected from the White House and can be ambivalent about politics. Inflation can be weaponized so that it strikes home, and negative perceptions are fomented and focused.

[enough]

4. Thank you. We need to keep this in mind when thinking about

the nature of our fellow citizens.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

7. You're welcome but for what, friend?

[DesertRain]

8. A week ago they were crowing about his 5 million popular vote

That's now down to under 3 million.

Of course, for a group that previously hadn't won the popular vote in 7 of the last 8 elections,
and even then the only time was 20 years ago, this feels like a mandate to them.

Either way, they will act like it's massive.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

9. The geniuses that said only one hundred and forty million people voted.

[Emile]

10. If we had all three branches of government

we would be calling it a mandate.

[Wiz Imp]

12. The media wouldn't. According to the media, the Dems didn't even have a mandate in 2008 despite the biggest landslide

victory in the last 40 years.

[Wiz Imp]

11. Only 6 elections in US history have had a popular vote margin less than 1.4%

And half of those were in the consecutive elections in 1880, 1884 & 1888.

1960, 1968 & 2000 are the only elections in the past 130+ years with a smaller margin. And in 1968 the electoral vote margin was bigger despite the close popular vote.

When you combine popular & electoral vote margins, the only less impressive victories in the past 60 years were Bush in 2000 & Trump in 2016.

[Scrivener7]

14. Appalling.