Name change.
We may have to come with a new name or some different names when we refer to this November 3rd. What happens is going to be shocking to and for a LOT of people of every party and persuasion. People around the globe will be shocked as well. Perhaps astounded is a better word. Shock? Awe? I’m kinda sorry that Day of the Dead is already taken. Maybe not. It’s going to be quite the day. It’s going to be a long day but a movie already used the title up for that one. It all comes down to being….
Time to finish up.
New ball game
The pandemic has turned things inside out and upside down in regards to what will happen on shock day. Record breaking early voting. Record breaking mail in ballots. Record breaking absentee ballots. Record breaking lawsuits by Republicans. Hundreds of thousands of ballots stacked up at USPS mail processing centers. (Done on purpose by Trump.) Did they get delivered in time? All of this taking place in a system not designed for this kind of voting. Some states will be counting votes for weeks.
While it seems to be generally accepted by real world residents that President Trump will lose the popular vote AGAIN, what will happen in the Electoral College is another matter entirely.
A beginning, an ending and a continuing
Really the kind of day that Tuesday will be can apply to either candidate or their respective followers. It’s one thing to expect a certain outcome and quite another to live it. The day is rife with potential along with the fog of not knowing for sure what’s happening and the chaos that we have come to expect the day to have.
In general, election forecasters indicate that early results are NOT necessarily an indicator of what is taking place as to who is winning and who is losing. While statistics as to probability aren’t provided it’s the sheer weight of mail in ballots that provide a limitation as to how fast they can be tallied.
Republicans already have something in the neighborhood of 300 lawsuits to suppress votes from Democrats and toss mailed in ballots. Any kind of mailed in ballot. Except for Florida. Trump wants mailed in ballots there. Trump’s Supremes will back him as much as they can justify.
Apparently it even looks like to Republican leadership, and I use that term loosely, that they’re going to lose the popular vote AGAIN so they’re going to try using the courts to steal the election with the Electoral College.
If it looks like Trump is losing Fox Pravda viewers aren’t going to know it. Remember their election night reporting with President Obama? That’s when Kelly went down to their election war room and asked them directly why they couldn’t or wouldn’t call it. Fox Pravda hasn’t gotten better since then.
Even if the results aren’t known it’s going to be quite a day.
An aside.
BTW, Kavanaugh got called out on an incorrect citation in his opinion. He gave a citation that was the opposite of what he decided. Sloppy work has been a hallmark of the Trump Administration. Statements issued with misspellings and/or bad grammar. Trump regularly uses the worng words (Did that on purpose.) like hydrosonic instead of hypersonic. It’s not that big a deal except he claims that he’s a genius, uses nothing but the best words and appoints the best people.
President Trump is so impressed with his candidacy that he invested ZERO dollars of his own money in his campaign. ZERO dollars. He used all rube money according to the FEC filings made to date. A billionaire that wouldn’t invest in himself.
He obviously knows a bad investment.
Forecast
Trump will continue tweeting that he has already won and that mailed in ballots are bad. If he loses, look for him to immediately claim that the election was stolen. Also look for him to be doing a lot of rage tweeting and inciting like he usually does, but at much higher levels. I believe that it’s quite possible that he will attain a personal best in the number of tweets.
It will not be surprising if it takes a couple of days to have a pretty good idea of who the winner of the election will be. The critical state seems to be Pennsylvania. If Trump wins Pennsylvania then his chances of getting reelected go way up. There are numerous other possibilities for a path to moving vans being involved.
Monkey in the machine.
Trump, his cronies, the Iranians, the Chinese Government the Republican Party, and his Russian handlers along with his cult followers have done their level best to screw up this election. This coming Tuesday, November 3rd we’ll all find out how successful they have been. Trump has maintained all along that the election should be decided on November third without counting all of the people’s votes. He believes that early returns will show him leading. He may very well be right.
That’s not the way it works.
Votes decide the election.
All the people’s votes are supposed to be counted or at least as many as is possible before the Supreme Court decides who the President will be. That’s only happened once and the guy that they declared the winner ended up losing the vote when all was said and done. BUT he still got to be President.
Funny old world at times.