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    5 days ago

    Realistically they had to defend PA. Georgia and North Carolina were always a long shot and the only way the Democrats could survive losing Pennsylvania. PA landed Trump his 270th EC vote.

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        4 days ago

        It’s electoral vote math. PA filled the exact amount they needed. None of the actual swing states mattered if PA went red. And I say actual swing states because Georgia, North Carolina, and Florida were only swing states on entertainment outlets cosplaying as news. On the inverse, the Democrats didn’t have a path to victory without Pennsylvania. There just weren’t enough other Electoral College votes available.

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            4 days ago

            It was to some people. That’s kind of my point. The news played around with all these maps but polling never justified doing so. It was always Pennsylvania. For the Democrats and Republicans.

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              4 days ago

              It was to dumb people who don’t know anything about politics and should not be use in a real discussion about realistic pathways to the White House. That’s my point.

              It belongs in the same discussion as people who called Virginia a swing state aka delusional republicans living in 2004.