RE:RE:Impact of the ElectionDoug, don’t know what the basis of lawsuits would be: don’t count mailed ballots received by Election Day in accordance with state law, or don’t count postmarked Election Day ballots received later, also in accordance with state law?
Nobody should be surprised late-counted mailed ballots tip towards the Democrats when the President politicized mailed ballots negatively. Curious calculation made by the Trump campaign to try and reduce the overall vote but perhaps he shot his re-election in the foot because maybe he lost a good number of GOP votes that for one reason or another didn’t or couldn’t wait in line or vote on Election Day in person, and would have upped his mail-in numbers except he had dissuaded many Trump voters from casting a mailed ballot.
The advance polls sucked me in, my call of a firm Biden win obviously wrong, it will be nip and tuck but Joe can still win 290 electoral college votes as of this morning ... similarly if Trump wins Nevada, Pennsylvania, Georgia and N.C. he could prevail over losses in Michigan and Wisconsin (?). Pennsylvania will be close, but like Michigan trends to Biden from here on. Or will Trump’s lead be a bridge too far? Amazingly that single vote from Nebraska’s Second District in Joe-Maha might take him to exactly 270 without PA, GA or NC.
Still of the view notwithstanding the irresponsible inflammatory claims of unsubstantiated fraud and vote-rigging by the President (he looked scared to me) things will remain pretty calm. Not sure how the Proud Boys or other aggitators attack the dull business of polling counts.
Hope things stay calm. Amazingly close race and from the outside looking into America, people around the world are shaking their heads in amazement that essentially 49% or close to that of Americans are willing to give the circus in the White House another four years.
I’ll stick my neck out and still predict Joe pulls this off, just barely now though.
cg