12-12-2020, 04:02 AM
For what it is worth, it seems that my local area is significantly different from where many of you guys live. Maybe this can help explain why the election turned out as it did. Based upon my personal experience, I really have no problem believing that the election results are valid. As a matter of fact, many of the people I know are actually surprised that the President got as many votes as he did. Overall, the President won the State of North Carolina, but it was not by a huge margin ( only 1.3% ). Many other Republican candidates did significantly better.
I live in a 55-and-older neighborhood in NC, which I affectionately call "Geezer Acres." For those of you who don't believe the number of mail-in ballots, all I can say is that well over half of those in my community voted by mail. My wife gave out pamphlets at our voting location on election day and noted just a trickle of voters. It seems that many older people around here were very afraid of catching Covid and did not want to take the chance of voting in person. Some others voted early just in case some illness or family emergency would have been a problem on election day. Maybe that helps explain the sheer number of mail-in votes. What I found surprising is that absolutely no one that I talked to voted for President Trump. That included quite a few life-long Republicans who voted for other Republicans in the other races. I did not realize that so many people really disliked or did not trust the man. Even my Mother, who is 93 (and has voted Republican for as long as I remember) told me that she thought that the President was vain, rude and a bully, so she voted for his Democrat rival.
I should also point out, that as far as I know, none of the people I asked are firearms enthusiasts, so the 2A was not a big issue for them. In areas with higher numbers of "gun people", things must have been different, but this is a snapshot of what I saw.
I live in a 55-and-older neighborhood in NC, which I affectionately call "Geezer Acres." For those of you who don't believe the number of mail-in ballots, all I can say is that well over half of those in my community voted by mail. My wife gave out pamphlets at our voting location on election day and noted just a trickle of voters. It seems that many older people around here were very afraid of catching Covid and did not want to take the chance of voting in person. Some others voted early just in case some illness or family emergency would have been a problem on election day. Maybe that helps explain the sheer number of mail-in votes. What I found surprising is that absolutely no one that I talked to voted for President Trump. That included quite a few life-long Republicans who voted for other Republicans in the other races. I did not realize that so many people really disliked or did not trust the man. Even my Mother, who is 93 (and has voted Republican for as long as I remember) told me that she thought that the President was vain, rude and a bully, so she voted for his Democrat rival.
I should also point out, that as far as I know, none of the people I asked are firearms enthusiasts, so the 2A was not a big issue for them. In areas with higher numbers of "gun people", things must have been different, but this is a snapshot of what I saw.