Snap Out Of It

Losing the White House, Senate, House sounds bad because it is, BUT this was NOT a landslide blowout.

It was one of the smallest popular vote margins of victory in history (& under 50%). Harris got nearly half the vote in a 100-day campaign despite the administration’s record unpopularity. Shifting just 237K votes across 3 states would have changed the outcome. GOP lost 4 of 5 battleground Senate races, no big House gain.

So this was NOT shameful! And certainly not permanent.

I was in the traveling press corps for Michael Dukakis 1988. Similarities abound (he was 17 points up in July, until Willie Horton landed). There was lots of post-defeat despair among Dems then too — but just four years later Bill Clinton showed up.

There’s always another election! And this dictator wannabe is already outrunning his mandate.

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