RE:Election UpdateTrump takes N.C. and Alaska, total EC votes, 232.
Biden takes NV, GA, AZ, total EC votes, 306.
Trump needs to reverse 37 to tie, 38 to win.
The tightest results are Wisconsin (10), Pennsylvania (20), Georgia (16), Nevada (6), Arizona (11).
The minimum number of State recount flips required is 3.
We are now on day 6 since the President alleged “massive voter fraud” although really, it was a statement he was making for months in anticipation of a larger Democrat turnout because urban workers who couldn’t wait in line in earlier elections without missing work in underserved polling constituencies would now vote by mail. Structural voter suppression was and is a real phenomena Trump knew was not going to be as effective this election. Thus the rush in Republican controlled States to limit drop-off locations, and prevent counting of ballots to create the exact impression that resulted - large Republican in person majorities, large Democrat by-mail majorities, a lag in full vote counts.
Zero question without Covid Trump would have won this election. Even with the George Floyd disruptons and push for an African-American and Latino vote. Biden did worse than Obama in those constituencies, but he made inroads with moderates, independents, and select Republican segments like college educated suburban white women.
Counting 150 million votes there will be errors and glitches. They will tend to offset. Three States where some mysterious theft and conspiracy took place ... OK conspiracy theorists, let’s see what you’ve got. We’re waiting.
They always say in those mutual fund blurbs “past performace does not indicate future results.” Never before have three states been flipped on recounts or challenges. Always a first time I guess, heck it’s 2020, I suppose the Big One should hit the West Coast in the next few weeks so the year ends with a bang. Or does North Korea get ahead of the game and nuke Guam? Or China lob a few firecrackers at Taiwan?
Gold was just creeping back to $2000, but the vaccine news is welcome, it is so hopeful, even though it jolted the gold markets. The Covid damage is already done, the cost and loss chickens haven’t yet all come home to roost.
Alaska I’m with you with a high level of comfort on my Treaty Creek stake, all the rest of this is just noise. TUO under three bucks? BUY!
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