Well, howdy there internet people? It's Bob again. So today we are going to talk about the

predicted voter turnout. What we can learn from that

well I find entertaining.

Okay, so if you don't know they are predicting incredibly high turnout.

They're predicting 150 million people vote. they are predicting incredibly high turnout.

They're predicting 150 million people vote.

It's about 65%.

It's about 65% turnout.

For those overseas, that's really high here. It's probably not in your country, but that's incredibly

high in the US. The last time we had turnout like that was in 1908. And the situation really wasn't that different on some levels.

There were some differences such as the incumbent party and the Republicans hadn't gone after the racist vote yet.

They hadn't executed the southern strategy.

That didn't happen for another half century or so.

But one candidate had a couple of failed presidential bids before, like Trump in 2000.

But in 1908, he used a different strategy.

He didn't try to get the establishment of the party behind him. He went after local people and he

campaigned against the elite and he did it in a unique way. He embraced the technology of the time.

They didn't have Twitter. But there were new modes of travel.

And he started stumping. He changed the way politicians politic by doing this.

And along the way he became very concerned about his crowd sizes.

Opposing him, you had kind of a boring guy who was picked by the establishment of the party.

Teddy Roosevelt was incredibly popular. He probably could have won a third term if he wanted.

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