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https://wgntv.com/news/coronavirus/north-dakota-legislature-candidate-who-died-of-covid-19-wins-election/ Fitting for 2020...

PA at 18,000 lead for Trump with 97% reporting... but it’s all over if AZ, NV and GA hold up.

From eand.co comments section, I thought this was one of the better opinions shared...I know, TLDR Now for what we did wrong, but first I acknowledge that some of you won’t agree with my assessment and that’s okay, my opinion may stink like everyone else’s, but I hope that at least you will be open minded enough to consider it and be self-reflective enough to consider a different path forward, out of the divisiveness, based on at least some of what I’m bringing up. It started with the fact that we couldn’t accept he won four years ago. Rather than look at many of the legitimate reasons for his victory, we ascribed nefarious and negative reasons for it; Russian Collusion, Sexism, Illegitimacy of winning just by virtue of Electoral College win, his Lies, uneducated/deplorable white males, etc.... We never acknowledged that people had the right to choose him as a leader regardless of how distasteful he was to the rest of us. Many people denigrated half of our country for 4 years calling them stupid, uncaring, racist, sexist, etc, worse yet, that attitude was amplified by almost every large Traditional and Social Media source — A LOT, on most days, incessantly, for FOUR YEARS. regardless of whether or not we agree with much of what was said, we BROWBEAT HALF of our FELLOW COUNTRYMEN... I’m certain most of you know that there are MUCH better ways of attracting more flies (bees?) than with vinegar. We had a 4 year tantrum and we should now be able to see how much good that did us. Consider now how much LESS trusted traditional media outlets are. Many people now have retreated to a place where what we read serves to only feed our confirmation bias, and there is NO universally trusted source of information. Ask yourself what may have been the public’s reaction if traditional Media had simply covered trump’s ridiculous tweets by simply putting them on screen for more exposure, and perhaps having a trusted non-partisan scientist, or legal authority, or former govt official to dispute any factual inaccuracies (with perhaps a second opinion as well), injecting as little “commentary” as possible. What if these large Media conglomerates didn’t keep fostering the division themselves, because they were beside themselves because their side lost, or perhaps because they faced having so many of their favorite political contacts/sources thrown out of positions of authority, making their job harder ? Or do you think their commentary and coverage was the way it was simply because it generated so much viewership ? In any case, no one who voted for trump wanted to experience 4 years of sour grapes, four years of constant berating, four years of being told they were just BAD people. Not to mention how much other news we never saw in deference to the onslaught of trump. Let’s be INTROSPECTIVE here, so we can learn and grow, and also so we can look with out hypocrisy towards what may come next... First, let’s not expect because our guy won that simply things will improve. The tone was set last time, and I’m assuming that a certain portion of HIS side will do the same thing that they felt was done to them for 4 years, minus a significant amount of traditional media’s opinion. Let’s be understanding and graceful in victory in a way we weren’t in defeat, even if they are just as petulant as we were. Let’s address issues that may have drawn them to him on which we can find common ground (I will endeavor to write about a few issues, soon, where I think both sides can be satisfied where previously people assumed we were at loggerheads)... Let’s stop making overly generalized, negative assumptions about our Friends, Neighbors, Family, and other Countrymen, simply based on who they voted for. Let’s stay away from words that make others assume things about what our intentions are before we have a chance to explain ourselves. We start off many conversations with buzzwords and labels that throw up barriers between us; it gets us no where. Are you talking with people to “beat” them with an argument, or are you hoping to educate them and offer a perspective that may get them to re-examine their own thoughts ? The way we’ve been trying to do things for the last 4 years has not resulted in the winning of hearts and minds with better ideas, it’s been a street fight, And I fear if we don’t do better it will get bloodier..."

Arguably, Rep. Clyburn in SC played kingmaker twice, Obama over HRClinton and then "pragmatically" rejecting Sanders for Biden.

Henry Wallace from Iowa, FDR's VP. Other than that, the closest would be Paul Wellstone or maybe LaFollette from Wisconsin a century ago. Hearst was more populist than socialist. Or the AFL-CIO leaders in the 50s 60s 70s.

Can anyone imagine Sanders turning Texas? His main argument was that younge Hispanics were turning out for him, but the sympathetic Castro comments would have crushed him in Florida.

Conor Lamb already rallied back in that area of PA...seems like a foregone conclusion Biden will eventually win there.

There's only been two significant successes in my 51 years on earth. Hope and change candidates who are articulate and have charisma and the ability to connect with voters. Bill Clinton and Barack Obama. Two in my lifetime. At one point, I would have argued Mario Cuomo possessed that same ability, but he never seemed to want to put himself and his family through the process of being under the national microscope (and many argued there were too many NY politics skeletons buried in his closet as well.) Jessie Jackson had it, from an oratorical standpoint, but he was never going to be able to extend his niche support, at least not back in the 1980's and early 90's.

The Dems and their establishment did get the idea of Biden landslide badly wrong, and it cost America, in the end, their refusal to take reality seriously. You shouldn’t join them in this game of denial and wishful thinking. Those of you who are about to condemn me for pointing it out should be holding them to account — the Democratic machine, Nate Silver, etcetera, instead. Because even if Biden pulls off a victory now, he has surely been denied a mandate. He may win, but the chance of a resounding triumph is now dust in history’s wind. .... Ultimately, believing in a Biden landslide cost Demcorats, and Americans, this — the chance to prevent Trump’s coup. The one he was always going to try, if the vote was even remotely close. Betting on a landslide, believing in the polls, undermined the very possibility of one. That’s not some kind of paradox, it’s just basic logic. If you believe that you’re going to triumph, why bother trying to the absolute limits of your capabilities? So the nightmare scenario is now here. Biden doesn’t just have to win an election now. He has to stop Trump from winning a coup. All that is the price of believing the fantasy of a landslide. It’s lethal and catastrophic. Biden may yet win, but sadly it won’t be a triumph. And there is still the coup to consider. Please. Please. Take it seriously. Don’t minimise it. Because even now, you will be making another mistake. That the coup can’t succeed, just because democracy has to win. Learn from this mistake, my friend, don’t be naive. The point of a coup is to end democracy. And there is now every chance that Trump and his fanatics will succeed at just that. https://eand.co/why-there-was-no-biden-landslide-b7156091a2d8

On Georgia: But make no mistake: Partisans (and donors) in both parties can do the math we just did. Which means they, too, know the massively high stakes for the Senate (and the country) at work in Georgia over these next few months. Which means that millions upon millions of dollars will pour into both of these races and they will both get covered like mini-presidential races by the state and national media, since there will be no other elections out there. Handicapping the two potential runoffs is virtually impossible at the moment because of the level of uncertainty in the presidential race -- and in Georgia in particular. If Biden winds up winning the state, and that's certainly at least a possibility as of this moment, then Democrats may well be energized heading into the runoffs. Or maybe Republicans, who have long taken the state's conservative bent for granted, will see the two likely Senate runoffs as a chance to reassert their state's ideological lean. Plus, with the amount of money and national media attention (and scrutiny) that will land on all four of these candidates, it's hard to know who will blossom and who will wither. What we do know for certain is that the 2020 election -- and the battle for the Senate majority -- is far from over. And Georgia is the next battleground. https://www.cnn.com/2020/11/05/politics/georgia-senate-jon-ossoff-david-perdue-kelly-loeffler-raphael-warnock/index.html

Unfortunately putting 20 million off ObamaCare with no national GOP health care plan since the 1980's might be the only way to pressure McConnell or Graham. That said, they just had hundreds of millions of dollars and the kitchen sink thrown at them to no avail. Let's count down the number of minutes after Biden is officially president-elect before they start arguing about the national debt and there's absolutely no money available without raising taxes on the upper upper middle class/rich and corporations....which of course the Senate will never approve.

now you only need the 1994 America Online dial-up modem connecting sound to go along with it.

Except back then, working across the aisle didn't automatically risk your political career. It made you a maverick, at worst... see McCain, John.

Arizona/Maricopa County drop coming up at top of the hour...

They should just let McConnell appoint them all and then blame him in 2022 when everything has gone to all hell in a handbasket. This would be the first President with an oppositional Senate in most everyone's lifetime.

"Trump won. I have no doubt,” said Youngo, one of about 100 pro-Trump protesters, who gathered Thursday afternoon outside State Farm Arena chanting “Stop the cheat!” Inside, poll workers feverishly counted ballots, most coming from heavily Democratic parts of the state favoring Biden. Youngo, who lives in DeKalb County, said she doesn’t trust the process. “Georgia is a red state,” she said. “The truth is President Trump was way ahead. Now they’re suddenly finding all these Biden votes.”

Like actually giving one speech in WI and not fighting for MI and PA until the last 2-3 weeks. Millions spent trying to turn purple states. NEW DEVELOPMENT: Pro-Trump protesters convinced the fix is in https://www.ajc.com/politics/election/pro-trump-protesters-convinced-the-fix-is-in/FL44ZCNCCFGIPEL5UEEWSLO6DI/

Shocking out of McConnell... As a stream of key swing state votes begins to turn the election in presidential nominee Joe Biden's favor, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., wasted no time in signaling that he would block potential progressive nominees for Cabinet positions if the GOP keeps its grip on the upper chamber. A source close to the majority leader told Axios that a Republican-controlled Senate would work with Biden to confirm centrist nominees but reject so-called "radical progressives" or other individuals who rankle conservatives. The source said Republicans would do all they could to limit a Biden agenda, adding: "It's going to be armed camps." source: Yahoonews.com Axios

Via the Associated Press: U.S. voters went to the polls starkly divided on how they see President Donald Trump's response to the coronavirus pandemic, with a surprising twist: In places where the virus is most rampant now, Trump enjoyed enormous support. An Associated Press analysis reveals that in 376 counties with the highest number of new cases per capita, the overwhelming majority — 93% of those counties — went for Trump, a rate above other less severely hit areas. Most were rural areas in Montana, the Dakotas, Nebraska, Kansas, Iowa and Wisconsin.

So much for Reagan’s shining light on a hill/beacon of hope for world democracies... Now we have a quite different version of American Exceptionalism that countries like Russia and China and Iran and North Korea...well, pretty much every single dictatorship in the world, to run on their news reels for the next 20-30 years. Hopefully Brazil and India don’t use Trump as an example, or the future of democracy is going to be pretty bleak.

And Fox has pretty much the same number of viewers as CNN and MSNBC. Who reads newspapers any more?

Or the Bengals wide receiver...

Georgia down to around 3,600...

Gee, I thought Arizona and GA had Republican governors...? Let’s just hope Chatham County in GA puts Biden over the top tonight. Unleash Covid on the US, pretty much force the majority of those in the Democratic Party to vote by mail while telling your own supporters to vote in person and then present no evidence or proof of any fraud...didn’t we already spend millions on the Kobach Commission report?

What was Trump’s position of Bush/Gore when he supposedly a NY Democrat?