Republican politicians and pundits ignored signs election could be close, writes QuinHillyer.
It wasn’t just in the last two weeks, but all year long that the conservative political class expressed extreme confidence that the pro-Republican vote this year would be something between a very strong wave and a tsunami. Nuts to that. They were wrong all along.
It starts with a failure to process actual evidence. In both 2018 and 2020, Democrats showed they have cracked the code for producing countable ballots, especially with liberalized mail-in systems. In Pennsylvania this year, for example, registered Democrats comprised 70% of the whopping 1.4 million people who requested early or mail-in ballots, giving them on paper a half-a-million vote edge going into Election Day.
Meanwhile, Republicans told themselves that few people really cared about the Jan. 6 assault on democracy. They ignored poll results showing 58% of self-described independent voters saying they would be less likely to choose a candidate who asserts that the 2020 election was stolen from former President Donald Trump. If a party is trying to win independent voters who disapprove of “election deniers” while the vast majority of that party’s candidates are election deniers, that’s a problem.
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