Yes, God, God. God don't never change.

Welcome to the Plodcast. This is episode 337. My name is Douglas Wilson.

This is the

podcast and I'm glad you came. So I want to address the question today.

We're in the beginning throws of a presidential election.

And I want to ask why the election is close.

Why is this even close?

This is an election where we have a true AB test, right?

We had four years of Trump from 2016 to 2020,

and we've had four years of Biden from 2020 to 2024. So four years of

Trump four years of Biden and now we have a match up between Trump and Biden, same two guys.

So people can look at how things were for them in the Trump years, and they can look at how they

were in the Biden years, how they are, and then make their choice. Now there are all

sorts of indications that Trump should, if this were a free and fair election there are all sorts of indicators that show that

Trump should take this walking away right things look good for him but it has to be said that things look good for him, but it has to be said that things look good for him in 2020 as well.

When you looked at the Trump rallies in 2020, packed out stadiums, for example, and you looked at a Biden rally that looked like a

Greyhound bus station at 2 a.m. You say how is this even up? But then, thanks to some funny business, some would say in the middle of the night in Fulton County and Maricopa and so on, and of course you get shut down shouted down for even suggesting such a thing

Biden still pulled it off so some people are saying oh yeah all the indications are that

Trump is energetic and a strong candidate but that's not going to help if there's cheating at the choke points because we have a electoral college system this last I think, with a margin of the electoral college

was decided, I think, with a margin of 40,000 votes

at five choke points.

Because of 40,000 votes at those key places,

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