Kerby Anderson

Yesterday, I talked about an academic study by Dr. John Lott. He concluded that Joe Biden received hundreds of thousands of “excess” votes in Democratic-controlled areas in the 2020 election. But that may not sound that significant because we have been told by this president and the media that he had an electoral mandate.

It is true that Joe Biden won the popular vote by a significant number. But if you focus on the electoral votes, you will notice that the 2020 presidential election was very close. So were the elections for the House and Senate. In fact, Republicans merely needed 90,000 votes to control all of Washington. Here’s how it breaks down.

Joe Biden won three key states (Arizona, Georgia, and Wisconsin) by the slimmest of margins (by 0.6 percentage points or less). If you flip fewer than 43,000 votes across those three states, the electoral college would have been tied 269 to 269. In case you are wondering, the outcome would be decided by each House delegation. Since the Republicans control more states, it is likely that Donald Trump would have been re-elected.

But the races for House and Senate were also very close. Change 32,000 votes in just five House races, and the Republicans would have had a majority, and would control the US House of Representatives. Give former Senator David Perdue an additional 14,000 votes and he would have avoided a runoff. His reelection would have kept Republicans in the majority, and the Republicans would control the US Senate.

These numbers illustrate how close elections have been in the last few decades. A few votes and small percentages make all the difference in who runs the country and what legislative agenda is enacted.