Writing at The American Spectator, Seth Kalkala makes some valid, I believe, observations about the 2020 election. Perhaps the most interesting thing he does is compare Biden 2020 with Clinton 2016, and Trump 2020 with Trump 2016.
Doing so reveals that while both 2020 candidates improved on their party’s 2016 numbers, Biden improved over Clinton much more so than Trump improved over himself four years earlier. At least one way of explaining this is that Clinton was a particularly unattractive candidate, whose presence on the ticket suppressed voter turnout.
I ask you to remember her use of an insecure home email server, her indifference to the killings in Benghazi and her sale of uranium to the Russians. Plus her spot-on impersonation of a shrewish, know-it-all ex wife.
By comparison grandfatherly Biden-in-the-Basement seemed blandly normal. By the very nature of the job, a vice president has difficulty appearing controversial or evil.
And of course, widespread mail voting brought those who seldom bother going to the polls into the voting pool. Taken together these factors perhaps begin to explain the election outcome.
