61 Million: When all is said and done, Democrats are likely to have 61 million votes. There are also rumors that it’s within the realm of possibility that the popular vote lead could hit 9% once all is said and done. But there’s another way to put 61 million into context.
I think we all know why this wasn’t covered. But I’ll share my thoughts here:
The media thinks it is part of the resistance, it thinks it understands the underpinnings of why the resistance is so popular, while it can’t grok why anyone would have voted for Trump in the first place (a type of misunderstanding, by the way, that lets them continue to evade responsibility for their reckless coverage of him in the 2016 election). They want to prove that they aren’t biased by covering conservative stories.
And there’s no sign that this behavior is changing any time soon. All of us remember the heartbreak on Election night, when at 6PM, PST, long before the polls in California, much less Hawaii and Alaska, closed, the media had already proclaimed “There will be no blue wave.” The media, in particular the pundit based media, is going to keep doing the same thing that they’ve been doing the past two years.
Don’t be surprised if at least one more “Trump voters in a diner” piece is written, especially as we run up to the 2020 election.
We are still the resistance. We may have won a key battle by taking back the House, but don’t expect that to be acknowledged anywhere. We know how to drive voters to the polls, and we know the tactics that the GOP will use to try and prevent that. And if anything? 2020 is even more key than 2018 was to hopefully undo or stem some of the long term damage that has been done to the country.
We got as many votes as a presidential year in a mid-term. Can’t wait to see how we do in a presidential year.