To be fair, you don't need those things to shatter the popular vote record. All you need is to have higher than usual vote turnout. Biden did well in major metropolitan areas. And LOTS of American citizens live in giant cities. What do Ohio, Florida, and Iowa all have in common? They don't have enough population concentrated in major metropolitan areas that would help Biden win the states. If those states had had the same difference between rural and urban as Pennsylvania, Biden would've won them.
[–] nomorefat 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
Since you add Obama in there for some spurious reason. You might want to add Trump's first presidential campaign. And then because you are smart and hopefully not fat. You would add Obama's first election, and second election to compare vs Trumps first election, and second campaign.