Well, I agree and I thought he would be easily defeated. There seemed no way he could gain support with all that he did and said. In truth, he did not gain support, he got about the same number of votes as he got the last time but, for reasons I obviously can't grasp, Harris got fewer votes than Biden got.

I feel like that did not boil down to much. I don't think 75 million people voted for white supremacy, or for fascism, or for concentration camps for immigrants, or jailing people with a different political perspective. Sure, some did. Some are very into those ideas. I think probably though most were voting for inflation to go down, grocery prices to go down, their lives to become more affordable.

I think people voted as they often do, for some kind of change to better their lives. I think because she was the incumbent VP, there were people that did not see her as "change" and the other guy just promised them on day one inflation would plummet, grocery prices would go down, gas prices would go back to less than $2.00 a gallon, all wars would end, and somehow, well, they believed him.  

I'll tell you something I have not said here or anywhere else. Julia has a friend that is married to a guy that works for the DNC and this guy the whole time kept saying "We're going to lose this thing."

It terrified my wife, and she kept asking me about it. I told her not to worry about it because people were just nervous about losing and did not know how to read switching candidates late in the game the way they did. That had not happened before. The way I saw it was people did not want Biden or Trump, they wanted a younger candidate, which some did, but things broke in different ways from there. 

I was like everybody else, caught up in the energy Harris injected into the process and watching Trump continue to implode saying crazy stuff and going nuts. I think the big problem was a lot of people were just burnt out and turned off by the entire process. 

Trump's victory was shocking but it does not look like it was big. He took the 7 states he needed by small margins.