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    Joe should go back to school

    Nov 26, 2020 5 minutes

    JOE BIDEN WON BY A HEFTY MARGIN, amassing the highest number of votes ever cast for a presidential candidate in a feat that surpasses Donald Trump’s achievement of attracting the record number of ballots cast for an incumbent — a blue wave crashing into a red wave.

    Yet this won’t bring much cheer to the Democrats, whose party high-ups have already been holding post-mortems into why they performed so dismally. Allowing Trump to rack up such a huge number of votes is one thing, but to actually go backwards in the Democrat-controlled House of Representatives, losing five seats, took some doing, and the Democrats might yet fail to take the Senate.

    Overall, it was calamitous considering the tailwind the Democrats enjoyed: a raging pandemic, a tanking, partly shut-down economy and a Republican president feared

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