This is a special solo episode on the election, of course. I'm calling this the most important election of my lifetime again.

With some other hyperbole's thrown in, let's call it a subtitle,

if Trump wins I'm leaving the country or if Harris wins it'll be the end of our country.

All right, let's everybody calm down.

One of the perks of being my age is that I've accumulated a lot of elections

since the first time I voted in 1972.

The year Republican President Richard Nixon defeated Democrat Senator George McGovern.

In a landslide victory, Nixon got 60.7% of the popular vote and 538 members of the Electoral College.

Remember you only need 270 to win.

Parenthetically, in 1984, Reagan took remember you only need 270 to win.

Parenthetically in 1984 Reagan took 58.8% of the popular vote,

slightly less than Nixon,

and 525 members of the Electoral College

against Walter Mondale.

Again, a landslide but not quite as much as Nixon got.

So let's put these things in perspective.

In 1972, I was a freshman in college, enrolled in a political science 101 course, in which our primary readings were the daily newspaper articles.

Our professor emphasized over and over that this was the most important

election of our lifetime. Well, in as much as I was 18 years old, that didn't mean much to me.

And in fact, the age of 18 had just been voted in as a

constitutional amendment number 26 the year before

but to be frank I was mostly interested in girls and sports and at the time getting my mind

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