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Victor Davis Hanson: Who Denies Election Results?

The Democrats have cast aspersions on far more elections than the Republicans have, but nobody calls them “election deniers”. From Victor Davis Hanson at zerohedge.com:

A Democratic myth has arisen that former President Donald Trump’s denial of the accuracy of the 2020 vote was “unprecedented.”

Unfortunately, the history of U.S. elections is often a story of both legitimate and illegitimate election denialism.

The 1800, 1824, 1876, and 1960 elections were all understandably questioned.

In some of these cases, a partisan House of Representatives decided the winner.

Presidential candidate Al Gore in 2000 did not accept the popular vote results in Florida. He spent five weeks futilely contesting the state’s tally – until recounts and the Supreme Court certified it.

The ensuing charge that former President George W. Bush was “selected not elected” was the Democrats’ denialist mantra for years.

In 2004, Senator Barbara Boxer, D-Calif. and 31 Democratic House members voted not to certify the Ohio election results in their unhinged efforts to overturn the election.

Those denialists included the current sanctimonious chairman of the January 6 select committee, U.S. Representative Benny Thompson, D-Miss.

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He Said That? 11/6/14

From President Barack Obama, at his press conference yesterday, from the Wall Street Journal, “Parties Vow to Seek Common Ground”:

I don’t want to try to read the tea leaves on election results.

Let SLL give you a hand, Mr. Obama. You lost, big time. People don’t like Obamacare, the scandals, the incoherent foreign policy, or the economy, which despite all the dubious statistics still feels like it’s stuck in first gear and could pop back into reverse at any time.

What I am going to try to do as president is to make sure I’m advancing what I think is best for the country.

That Mr. President, is a big part of the problem. You know best, or think you do, and you’re not interested in other points of view, even when they are registered in a huge electoral victory for the other side. That’s not leadership, that’s childish self-absorption and denial.

I’m the guy who’s elected by everybody, not just from a particular state or particular district.

But when most of the particular states and particular districts in the country are voting against you and your policies (especially states and districts that have formerly supported you), don’t you think perhaps you should demonstrate a little humility and acknowledge that, unenlightened as they may be, the majority of voters didn’t see things the way you do? This is, after all, politics, the art of getting people to do what you want them to do.

If Mr. Obama does not do some growing up in a hurry, it’s going to be a long 806 days (but who’s counting?) until the next president is inaugurated, assuming Obama does not declare himself Emperor for Life.