First, the 2024 campaigns totally focused on the seven swing states, the so-called purple states. It seemed that Trump, Vance, Harris and Walz and their surrogates were coming through Wisconsin almost by the hour. And it was being reported that a similar track record was being kept in the other six swing states. Well, that leaves 43 states almost entirely neglected in this presidential race unless they also had a crucial Senate seat or ballot question on the line. How does this project to the average voter that their vote doesn’t count if they live in one of these 43 states? How does this suppress the vote? How would this change if it was the popular vote — your vote and mine — that decided the presidential vote instead of the 538 individuals gathering in their state capitols casting votes that will be transmitted to the vice president and Congress on January 6^th? What difference would it make if each candidate had to compete in all 50 states plus Washington, D.C.? What would happen if everyone’s vote were enfranchised instead of written of because it really doesn’t land in the seven states up for competition?

Where did the 8.4 million Democratic votes go? Right up to Election Day, there was a tremedous amount of chatter on social media that the 2024 election was rigged against Trump. And then, all of a sudden, when it appeared that Trump would win the Electoral College, the election-rigging chatter died down to almost a whisper. If this were millions of everyday Americans expressing their belief that the 2020 election was stolen and that the 2024 election was rigged, how could the chatter end so relatively abruptly? For better or worse, Americans are individualists and I can’t imagine that their chatter would stop at the same time. Ain’t no one going to tell them when and what to do. But it all died down almost at once like an orchestrated effort.