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The Erick Erickson Show

S11 EP129: Hour 2 - Sine, Cosine, and Resigned to Defeat

The Erick Erickson Show

Erick Erickson

News, News Commentary

4.5874 Ratings

🗓️ 21 July 2022

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Elections are won and lost by a very small percentage of persuadable voters and since Biden is unlikely to get them he’s shoring up his base.

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome. It is Eric Erickson here. The Eric Erickson show across the nation. The phone number is 8779773-7-425. Should you wish to be a part of the program? I got to, I always hate to do this. I didn't do it at the start of the show with all the other breaking news. But I want to revisit what I started the show with yesterday because a buddy of mine

0:27.1

was listening. He says, you got to adjust your numbers and percentages. And so I want to get

0:32.0

it right for everybody. It's important for accuracy sake.

0:46.1

A lot of people are confused by what's going on in the white house that the Biden team seems to just be off their rocker and I actually don't think that's the

0:52.9

case I think as much as there's

0:55.7

dysfunction in the White House and Biden seems out to lunch weekend at Bernie's-esque, the White

1:01.0

House political team is a sharp political team. I mean, they won a Democratic primary. They

1:05.0

won a presidential election. They kind of have a sense of what they have to do, even in headwinds.

1:11.4

Just bear with me here.

1:13.3

Just listen to me.

1:14.2

Hear me out on this.

1:16.2

Now that I got the actual numbers.

1:18.4

So there are 332 million Americans.

1:24.1

75% are eligible to vote.

1:29.3

75% of the 332 million Americans are eligible to vote.

1:33.3

However, of the 332 million Americans, only 50% are registered to vote.

1:40.3

So half of the country is registered to vote.

1:43.3

Now, of the half who are registered to vote, I mean, they don't all show up.

1:48.6

So out of 332 total million Americans, only 40% of them will show up and vote.

1:56.3

A presidential year, you may get 47% in a midterm election.

2:00.6

You may get 33%. The average is about

2:02.8

40%. It goes up and downs. Midterms are now more and more like presidential elections. There is a

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