Biden was supposed to have had a 10 point lead nationally. That was a recipe for a landslide. Instead, one day later, we are looking at a nailbiter. The polls were off again. Looks like they are not designed to reach the core of Trump voters. The bigger news, though, is that the country is as divided as ever, and the Covid catastrophe does not seem to have budged the country much. It is the same old, same old. America has the political equivalent of a lifestyle disease. Biden will squeak through, but there is no landslide.
POLITICO: America Is Eerily Retracing Rome’s Steps to a Fall. Will It Turn Around Before It’s Too Late?.https://t.co/QJ3ruz2Klu
America Is Eerily Retracing Rome’s Steps to a Fall. Will It Turn Around Before It’s Too Late?
Two thousand years ago, the famous Republic had a chance to reject a dangerous populist. It failed, and the rest is history. Can Biden Still Win? Can Trump Still Win? Yes. Here Are the Remaining Paths. The president was able to close off several avenues to an early Biden win, but the former vice president still has a number of options. What’s Left in the Seven States That Will Decide the Race Though they’re still too close to call, there are some indications of which way things might go...... If Mr. Biden did carry Georgia, along with the other states mentioned so far, he’d win more than 300 electoral votes. Democrats Battle for Senate Control as They Maintain Grip on House Majority The two parties grappled for advantage in the fight for the Senate majority as Democrats aimed to add to their majority in the House. ....... That left both sides closely watching Maine, North Carolina and Georgia, where partial returns showed exceedingly tight races between Republican incumbents and their Democratic challengers........... At least one Senate race taking place in Georgia, an unexpectedly competitive battleground this year, was headed for a winner-takes-all January runoff that could decide the balance of the Senate only weeks before Inauguration Day if Tuesday’s contests did not. The state’s other race could also end up in a runoff, but it was too early to be certain....... while strategists in both parties had said a second blue wave could wash out 10 to 20 Republicans, by Wednesday morning, returns indicated that no such sweep had materialized ..... Worried about Mr. Trump’s chances, though, many Republicans closed their campaigns with warnings to voters of the risks posed by putting the White House and Congress under full Democratic control......... If Democrats were able to grab control of the House, Senate and White House at once for the first time since 2010, they could abolish the legislative filibuster — the last major vestige of minority rights in the Senate — and push through an ambitious slate of bills on voting rights, gun safety, policing and prescription drug prices. They would most likely reserve much of their political capital for expanding the Affordable Care Act and raising taxes on the wealthy to offset that and other new programs......... Facing a Senate led by Mr. McConnell, Mr. Biden could even have an uphill battle winning its approval to fill his cabinet, and he would certainly face opposition to liberal nominees to the federal courts. 2020 Should Be the Last Time We Vote Like This Turnout was inspiring, but our voting system is badly flawed....... Set against so many less important transactions in American life — ordering a complicated coffee from a national chain, or finding the best sushi place in a town you’ve never visited before — the simple act of casting a ballot is laughably antiquated. ....... In many countries, elections are administered by nonpartisan agencies that set rules for the entire nation. In the United States, elections are often run by elected officials — Republican or Democratic secretaries of state, for instance — and rules about who gets to vote and how they do so differ from state to state.
Biden’s lead is now currently bigger than Trump’s final 2016 margin in both MI and WI and is projected to grow. Estimates are his PA lead will be bigger as well. If smaller margins were good enough for Trump to collapse the Blue Wall, larger ones certainly OK to rebuild it.— David Plouffe (@davidplouffe) November 4, 2020
Progressives will recriminate against centrists and vice versa, but all Dem factions have to contend with this:
Turnout was high. The prog base showed up like progs want. There was huge cross-partisan outreach like mods want.
But Trump activated a MASSIVE racist/sexist vote.— David Atkins (@DavidOAtkins) November 4, 2020
NV, WI, MI equals 270. And a butt load of court cases from 45— Elias Wallace (@EliasWallace) November 4, 2020
Here is @Phil_Mattingly the moment that “Michigan just turned blue” pic.twitter.com/wWTeti6Shs— Vaughn Sterling (@vplus) November 4, 2020
I wanted a blowout and I wanted to reject Trumpism. We didn’t get that, I woke up feeling awful, and once the ballots are all counted we need to talk about what we need to do differently. But Biden is still on track to win.— Sejal Singh (@Sej_Singh) November 4, 2020
Lots of votes still to count but it is time to think about what’s possible with a Biden presidency, a McConnell senate, and a smaller dem majority in the House.
Measure expectations and buckle right back up for 2022.— Katie Hill (@KatieHill4CA) November 4, 2020
Votes are counted in Detroit, Michigan, this morning. pic.twitter.com/JM9pnYBzRl— The Hill (@thehill) November 4, 2020
Former vice president Joe Biden now has received more votes than Barack Obama did in 2008, breaking the record for most votes ever received by a US presidential candidate, according to the AP. https://t.co/fCzD5LBNEK— The Boston Globe (@BostonGlobe) November 4, 2020
The US Elections Project estimates nearly 67 percent turnout — the highest since 1900.
This is true in most red states. (Many blue ones too.)— Mikel Jollett (@Mikel_Jollett) November 4, 2020
Remember folks, the Electoral College:
— Designed to increase power of slaveholding states via 3/5ths clause
— Winner take all rules created, in part, to deny equal voice to Black voters
— In 1970, popular reform blocked by filibuster led by segregationist Senators— Omar Wasow (@owasow) November 4, 2020
Conservatives surrendered to mail-in voting. Conservatives surrendered to early voting. Conservatives surrendered to no voter ID. Conservatives are about reap what they've sown. You can't surrender every battle and expect to win the war.— Annette G. H. 💎 (@AnnetteGH86) November 4, 2020
Turns out @cindymccain and her love of our country helped to end Trumpism and make @JoeBiden the 46th President. We will be forever grateful as a nation.— Anthony Scaramucci (@Scaramucci) November 4, 2020
Mediocre white men, their handmaids, and their helpers: gird your loins because I’m about to be saying all the things that needed to be said the last two years. LOL Good morntinggg! 😆— Councilwoman Emily LaDouceur (@EmilyForBerea) November 4, 2020
They gutted the Voting Rights Act, slowed the mail, intimidated voters, invested billions in disinformation, closed countless polling stations in Dem precincts and everyone is running around saying, "How did Republicans get so many votes?!"— Mikel Jollett (@Mikel_Jollett) November 4, 2020
“Hey, how come you continued counting till the end instead of stopping when I was still ahead?!” https://t.co/DNpqLExdzX— Mohamed Zeeshan (@ZeeMohamed_) November 4, 2020
Trumpism is not going away and we need a fundamentally new approach to politics to defeat it.— jon lou (@jonchilou) November 4, 2020
🚨BREAKING: New USPS data appears to show a failure to deliver mail ballots from voters across the country on Election Day. U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan will hold a noon hearing over USPS' non-compliance with his order yesterday to rush deliver all remaining mail ballots pic.twitter.com/Zc8J5PEmPf— John Kruzel (@johnkruzel) November 4, 2020
Even if (as) the Trump Presidency ends, many remnants of it will remain. Major healing, restoration and reconciliation work ahead.🙏🏽— Rev. Wendy Hamilton🧢🍎 (@revwendy3) November 4, 2020
This may be a simplistic analysis, but it really doesn't seem like a Democratic wave that was reflected in the polling failed to materialize. It just appears that a Republican wave also materialized, which wasn't captured in the polling, a la 2014.— Noah Rothman (@NoahCRothman) November 4, 2020
Regardless of who wins the election, it is very obvious that the American people relayed a message last night.
The average citizen outside our major cities feels unheard. They feel like the politicians have abandoned them.
Our country would be better off by addressing this.— Pomp 🌪 (@APompliano) November 4, 2020
Democratic candidate Joe Biden has taken the lead in Michigan as votes continue to be counted. Biden has racked up 238 votes in the Electoral College, while President Trump sits at 213. Meanwhile, seven Senate races are still uncalled. #Election2020https://t.co/JZiW1eh1VXpic.twitter.com/VnGCDSTKIn— CNBC (@CNBC) November 4, 2020
How come every time they count Mail-In ballot dumps they are so devastating in their percentage and power of destruction?: @realDonaldTrump Track #USAElections2020#LIVE updates here https://t.co/H7pA5K1Gda#RaceForTheWhiteHousepic.twitter.com/L7LM8CPNJs— Economic Times (@EconomicTimes) November 4, 2020
Regardless of the complete end result, seeing how many still support this evil and corrupt man just breaks my heart! They clearly put party over country even with the worst possible candidate that they put a blind eye to. https://t.co/SknGnvUqYi— Mark Nielsen 🌊😷 (@manielse) November 4, 2020#Democrats lost last night. Big. They knew it. So they have gone to Plan B which has been in the works for years. The law is irrelevant to Dems. They will do anything--absolutely anything--to gain power. And in so doing, turn us into yet another Marxist banana republic.— Larry Alex Taunton (@LarryTaunton) November 4, 2020
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