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48 minutes ago, autigeremt said:

Where were you when things were being tilted in the Democrats favor? You know it's real.....LMAO! 

Only thing tilting in Democrats favor is that a majority of the US voting population agrees with them more than Republicans. That's why Republicans want to pass laws to make voting harder and more restricted, especially in urban population centers. 

The Republican presidential nominee has won the US popular vote ONE time in the last eight presidential elections and it's not going to be getting any better for R's in the future. 

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/04/21/why-republicans-fixate-suppressing-vote/

"The first comes from TargetSmart, a Democratic data firm that has compiled information on more than 98 percent of those who cast ballots last year from individual voter files. The firm finds: “Non-college educated whites dropped from 53.8% of the electorate in 2016 to 49.2% in 2020.” Moreover, “Nationally, total turnout increased by 12% relative to 2016, turnout among [Asian American and Pacific Islander] voters surged by 43% and Latino turnout increased by almost a third of all votes cast.” (While the disgraced former president may have done better among Hispanics in some states than he did in 2016, overall, he still lost 65 percent of these voters.)

TargetSmart’s chief executive, Tom Bonier, told me this means that non-college-educated Whites increased turnout over 2016, but just not as fast as other groups. In other words, the GOP is “running out” of non-college-educated Whites." . ...

"The second statistic behind the Republicans’ collective panic attack has to do with their solid core of supporters: White evangelical Christians. As I pointed out last month, Gallup finds that the percentage of those attending any religious institution has dropped below 50 percent, the first time in 80 years of its surveys. Churches are losing younger Americans at a remarkable rate:" ....

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If Republicans cannot find enough non-college-educated Whites and, worse for them, cannot count on White evangelicals (more than 80 percent of whom voted for the MAGA party) to keep pace with the growth of nonreligious voters, their nativist party — driven by fears of an existential threat to White Christianity — will no longer be viable at the national level.

Sure, deep-red states will still vote for Republicans — until they reach a demographic tipping point, as Georgia did in 2020. And highly gerrymandered districts will still give us noxious figures such as Reps. Mo Brooks (Ala.) and Marjorie Taylor Greene (Ga.) — until electoral reforms such as independent redistricting or ranked-choice voting make their candidacies impossible.

Republicans, in essence, are trying to eke out as many election cycles as they can with its shrinking base. Deathly afraid of alienating the most rabid MAGA supporters, they continue to stoke racial resentment, fear of immigrants and bizarro conspiracy theories — all of which push away non-Whites, women, college-educated voters and younger voters. In sum, Republicans’ base is vanishing and they haven’t the slightest idea what to do about it — other than a possibly self-destructive effort to disenfranchise voters."