The polls, all of them, were wrong - massively. Did you see the blowout in Florida? I'm sure we'll be hearing more about how Brenda Snipes (fired before she could resign in 2018 because of incompetence and fraud) would have run things differently than Peter Antonacci, who was appointed by then Governor Scott to the position.
Did you notice that Democratic governors with the harshest lockdowns locked down election counting as soon as it became apparent Trump had won their state? Michigan (Whitmer), Wisconsin (Evers), Pennsylvania (Wolf), and Virginia (Northam)?
The press coverage, well you know they are all in for Kamala. Pennsylvania, where Trump was up by almost 700,000 with 64% of the vote in and only the western parts - all pro Trump - remaining and.... let's put a 'Lid" on it? Do you wonder what they are doing in that basement? Just like Michigan, Trump up by 300,000 with 65% of the vote in and..... you guessed it, let's stop counting. Especially since they all know now just how many junk-mail ballots they need to fill out and 'find' before they start counting again.
They do better in the third world. Operation Red Mirage, round two, happening now.
I know, its from a right winger. Only the CEO of Hawkfish is hardly that.
On a final note, check the Yuan to USD exchange rate. It was tanking in overnight trading, right up to the left calling a halt to the election. Now you have to wonder why it recovered in a matter of hours.
Now you will pardon me as I go check the trunk of my car to see if I can find a box of anything to turn in.....
Post by Fred
Deap,
Bye bye.
Posted by: Fred | 04 November 2020 at 08:20 PM
Posted by: Diana L Croissant | 04 November 2020 at 02:51 PM
Don't despair: It's not over till its over. Tucker
Carlson will send you his enlightening monologues into the temporary darkness.
Posted by: vig | 04 November 2020 at 10:29 PM
This is far from over. This is like the first yellow flag a few laps in at the Daytona 500. Trump lives for the fight. He may or may not win, but this is a grudge match that goes to the last lap.
FYI, I always thought Trump's original goal was to use his 2016 campaign as advertising for a Trump TV network that he would launch after he LOST. The tell for me was the look on Melania's face the morning after. It certainly wasn't what I would call joy...
He seems to enjoy tormenting his adversaries and he'll have amply opportunity to do it win, lose, or draw.
Posted by: EEngineer | 04 November 2020 at 11:44 PM
Its not over until the hurricane hits san antonio
Posted by: mcohen | 05 November 2020 at 02:36 AM
I agree with Bill Wade.
Having red whine with dinner Fred, I see.
Posted by: Mark Gaughan | 05 November 2020 at 05:16 AM
Even if he has lost he is still President for over two more months with the power to issue EOs.
If he follows the precedent set when he took over he will show no help to the incoming transition team.
But it ain't over yet. If it is, as EE said above, it is highly likely he will be going down fighting.
Posted by: JohninMK | 05 November 2020 at 05:30 AM
Back in the 1950s my old man took me to the final championship game in Toronto, it was the St Catherine's BlackHawks versus the Edmonton Oilers, these were farm clubs for the NHL and caliber of play was very high. At any rate, the score with ten minutes to go in the 3rd period was Edmonton 5, St. Catherines zero. The final score in the most exciting game I will ever see was 6 to 5. This election is not over yet.
Posted by: BillWade | 05 November 2020 at 06:45 AM
Leith,
"never-appointed but self-proclaimed poll watchers bumrushed the polling station."
Is that what that was. Where did you read that one? Any arrests made for that, since all the public news is about the windows being covered up to hide the vote rigging? Having worked on democratic campaigns in Michigan for almost a decade I'm quite familiar with poll watchers - which aren't 'appointed' by the govnerment. Perhaps you should read up on the law - the voting rights act - that is going to be enforced by way of the courts. The left really screwed the pooch this time. I wonder if there is personal liability for handing out sharpies instead of pens to voters? That will make a bunch of fun lawsuits.
Mark Gaughan,
Let me paint you a picture: Watching a fighter take on the clueless as the old guard of the DNC loses out to the left wing of the Democratic Party. It's the Black - H1B visa party now. Congtrats to Barack for making Hilary and Joe's people irrelevant for the future of the Democratic Party. Congrats to Trump for showing that a politician who will fight for working class Americans will be rewarded by massive increases in voting percentages for the GOP amongst all groups. Well,all but White Males over 65.
BTW it is Plantation Rum 20th Aniversary. I'm making it a double. Goes great with Schadenfreude too.
https://www.plantationrum.com
Posted by: Fred | 05 November 2020 at 07:06 AM
Polls that called 2016, Richard Baris at PPD, Trafalgar, Patrick Basham at the Democracy Institute, said this would be a repeat. Here in London I watched the comfortable win in Florida and the strong early results in the rust belt I expected. Like our host I was very shocked to wake up the next morning and see the results had made a dramatic reversal. I hope you are able to get to the bottom of it, Trump seemed to do so well in the Great Lakes States that the level of fraud is impossible to hide.
Posted by: LondonBob | 05 November 2020 at 07:19 AM
Fred,
Enjoy your rum! It's Highland Park 12 for me.
Mark
Posted by: Mark Gaughan | 05 November 2020 at 08:41 AM
I made the mistake of watching CNN in the UK for election coverage, since Sky News and especially the BBC disgust me. I was shocked at just how biased the coverage was. They didn't even pretend to be even-handed. Not only that but their coverage is pretty useless. I just turned it on to try and get an update on the Pennsylvania count. They made a big deal of Biden closing the gap when it turned out he had barely moved the dial. I then waited to hear how many votes remained to be counted (surely this is of some importance?). Waited in vain as it turned out, since they never bothered to mention it. I guess the number remaining is how ever many it takes to get Biden over the line.
Posted by: Chicot | 05 November 2020 at 09:43 AM
Watching on election night by county in the battleground states was very revealing.
In most states the large urban areas reported quickly after the polls closed, for example Las Vegas, Nevada and Hennepin County, Minnesota but in Wisconsin, Michigan, and Georgia it was the rural counties getting the votes in first while Milwaukee, Wayne, and the Atlanta counties stopped reporting. Milwaukee stopped at 41% with a +22% for Biden then at 4:00 a.m. they found record numbers of votes for Biden, far more voters than 2016, and the Biden margin in those votes had to be +60 to get to a final +40.
Sure looked like a plan - count all the counties except the main democratic urban stronghold then find just the votes needed to barely top off the count for Biden. Same thing happened with Wayne(Detroit) in Michigan. Remote upper peninsula votes were counted before Wayne.
Perhaps they were just overwhelmed but it was odd to me that it was quick and efficient in most urban counties to tabulate except for the battlegrounds.
Posted by: T | 05 November 2020 at 10:01 AM
Georgia update:
About three hours ago, Republican GA Secretary of State stated that there are under 25k ballots left to count with Trump still leading by 18k. Now, apparently there are over 50-60k uncounted apparently found ballots...again in heavily democratic counties.
In Georgia, the counties are administrators of the election.
You can’t make this up.
Posted by: Stueeeeeeeee | 05 November 2020 at 10:18 AM
Stueeeee,
Of course you can, which is exactly what'll they'll do until they are ahead, declare victory, launch the 'transition team' and all the rest. I'm sure another major Covid declaration in contested states is only hours away, as seen by Debbie "The UAW workers said they are voting for Trump" Dingell's latest FB post. Fun times. China must be happy, I'm sure they've got the goods on more of the dems.
Posted by: Fred | 05 November 2020 at 10:24 AM
Fred - Enjoy your 20th Anniversary rum. I stock my pantry with nine dollar plastic bottles of Military Special rum from the PX. No way I drink it neat, but it ain't half bad in coffee. And it's adequate for SWMBO's mojitos.
As for the Dem Party now being black, maybe so. They6've come a long way. Now picking presidents instead of picking cotton.
Posted by: Leith | 05 November 2020 at 12:38 PM