Posted on 11/04/2020 6:04:05 AM PST by EyesOfTX
As the day dawns on November 4, America faces a temporarily hung jury on its presidential race, although how long it will remain hung is anyone’s guess. As of this writing early in the morning on November 4, President Trump clings to narrow leads in the states of Georgia, North Carolina and Michigan, and a much larger lead in Pennsylvania. The trouble is that, unless Arizona, where Joe Biden leads, turns around, the President would need to hang on in all four of those other states in order to gain the 270 electoral votes necessary to win a second term.
There was no Blue Wave forecast by all the media-financed pollsters in this election, nor was there the Red Wave that yours truly and others foolishly projected yesterday. What there was instead was a vast sea of still waters, barely changed from 2016, but, thanks to a tsunami of mail-in ballots of questionable provenance, shifted just enough to perhaps get the Democrat Party’s clearly-addled nominee over the finish line at the end of the day, possibly this day.
The President promised to challenge the vote counting processes in some of these states in a speech given in the wee hours of the morning, but the chances of that effort having any success does not appear to be strong. As the ballots continue to roll in from Democrat-controlled cities like Atlanta and Detroit and Philadelphia, it’s hard not to assume that some significant voter fraud is taking place in Biden’s favor. Whether the President’s team could reverse any outcomes by actually proving that such fraud was massive enough to make the difference in, say, Michigan and Georgia, which both appear destined to ultimately turn to Biden’s advantage seems unlikely given the ineptitude of such efforts from the past.
In other news from last night, Fox News again beclowned itself with election coverage that ranged from the ridiculous to the sublime. The trending-blue channel’s system of calling states was in fact so outrageously nonsensical that one of its own prime time anchors, Tucker Carlson, actually kind of called it out during a monologue about how awful the media was in general:
As per usual, Fox appeared to be more interested in giving all of its paid contributors specific amounts of contractually-required airtime than it was in actually covering the news of the election. Thus, viewers were forced to sit through endless droning and rants from the likes of Chris Wallace, Juan Williams and Donna Brazile while Fox lagged 30 minutes behind CNN and the networks in reporting actual election results.
CNN, meanwhile, ran circles around Fox, with John King and Wolf Blitzer providing near-constant up-to-the-minute coverage of the actual results to its viewers. Yes, Fake Jake Tapper was his normal insufferable self, but all in all, Election Night remains the only night in any year in which it is acceptable to tune your TV to CNN.
As I was compiling this piece, the vote in Michigan narrowed to just a 2,000 vote Trump edge:
Trump (R): 49.2% (2,345,412 votes) Biden (D): 49.2% (2,343,266 votes)
A 2,166 vote lead with tens of thousands of absentee votes to be counted. Some of those AVs still outstanding are from Trump-leaning areas, but probably not enough. Michigan could end up becoming 2020’s version of Florida 2000, with weeks of recounts and litigation lying ahead.
Note: That Trump edge rose back up to about 21,000 a few minutes later. Who knows? Maybe there’s still hope.
It looks like President Trump will be able to hang on in North Carolina and Pennsylvania, but Georgia also could be destined to remain up in the air for days if not weeks to come.
Ohio, meanwhile, went bright red again, with the President prevailing by a whopping 8% of the vote in a state that for almost half a century was the true bellwether in presidential contests. WSJ columnist Kimberly Strassel points out just how comically wrong some of the media’s favorite pollsters were about that state:
That’s right: Quinnipiac, one of Nate Silver’s gold star polling groups, missed Michigan by 13 point. She could have ridiculed several other polling groups given that, of the 10 most recent polls of Ohio, only Trafalgar showed Trump with a lead there.
Florida also went much brighter red than it has been in decades, with Trump rolling to a fairly easy 3.5% edge in the Sunshine State. Strassel also pointed to the futility of most pollsters there:
Quinnipiac only missed Florida by 9. Holy crap.
But wait, there’s more. How many polls did we see in recent weeks showing GOP senate incumbents Lindsey Graham, John Cornyn, Roger Marshall and even Mitch McConnell in deep trouble? Hint: the correct answer is TONS of polls.
Guy Benson pointed out the absurdity of those polls early this morning:
That’s right: Lindsey Graham prevailed by double digits despite his opponent getting about $130 million in Hollywood and New York money for his race. John Cornyn fought off about $40 million of out of state money coming into his goofy opponent to win by 10 in Texas.
Back to the presidential contest: Stay tuned. We may end up seeing litigation and recounts all the way to January. We are truly in perilous times.
That is all.
I don’t think the courts.
Not sure if we have the patience for the courts.
Looks like MI is gone. Late night vote searching strikes again.
if neither MI nor WI go back to red, there will be no reason to go to courts.
biden will have 270 EVs
138K+ votes to Biden not to anyone else. That tells you all you need to know about the state of the election. Sleepy up by 8K in WI. Feels completely safe for him at this point but a 700K vote lead for Trump seems weak. This is a scam
It’s always been about the chads.
Delegitimization.
I can’t believe 50% of the people I meet are complete self identifying idiots.
Total hand in the air morons.
Absolutely.
Trump won’t take this lying down.
The Dems expect, and want, massive protests in response.
The 1.8 Billion dollars Hunter got from the Chinese is being spread around cautiously to buy the election. Hunter has done a good job to get Joe elected. If Joe loses, Hunter’s life is not worth a dime, he will be Clintonized.
You could of made this prediction 2019. It's just the way America works now.
Although some say the chances of Trump's court effort having any success does not appear to be strong,
keep in mind we do not yet know what other moves Trump may be making as we type.
REFERENCE: On the issue of late vote tallies, Trump pointed to his court battle predictions about mass mail in voting.
He called for vote counting to stop and said he will appeal to the USSC immediately."We want the law to be used in a proper manner."
"Frankly, we won this election...We won this election. This is a major fraud on this nation."
President @realDonaldTrump: "So we'll be going to the U.S. Supreme Court. As far as I'm concerned, we already have won it."
pic.twitter.com/9RUw8RSYz4 — Townhall.com (@townhallcom) November 4, 2020
STROLL DOWN MEMORY LANE: The USSC ruled in the Bush/Gore fiasco that it was a violation of the “one man, one vote”
to only partially count and SINCE they couldn't count the whole state of Florida, Gore's partial recount was invalid.
The USSC ordered the count to be stopped.
Seemed more like the USSC's acknowledgement of Democrats' proclivities
to count, recount, then count again, till they had the necessary votes to win.
BTW, when the USSC stepped in ......it was due to brilliant legal moves by Bush's lawyer, former Secy of State James Baker.
In his book about losing the election, Gore related that whenever his lawyers got to court,
Bush's lawyers had already been there.....always a step ahead of them.
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(Blackmon) The polls closed, but ballots continued to roll in from Dem-controlled cities...Atlanta, Detroit, Philly.
It’s hard not to assume that some significant voter fraud is taking place in Biden’s favor. Whether Trump's team
could reverse outcomes by actually proving that fraud was massive enough to make the difference
seems unlikely given the ineptitude of such efforts from the past.
That's assuming the legal argument is based on the intellectually facile argument of "fraud" alone.
Putting your faith in the SCOTUS is like expecting DOJ and Keystone Kops to uncover corruption.
It will not go to courts when it is apparent Biden won Michigan and Wisconsin. Pennsylvania does not matter. For Pennsylvania’s part they did their best to save the oil industry in US. We can only hope that 2022 is a red wave and the Senate blocks what they can.
Did the LORD put Trump there, has th LORD protected him, the LORD will keep him there. Have faith.
anyone rear a rumor that NSA has recordings/evidence concerning election fraud ?
FISA WARRANTS for dem leaders?
...we have it all...?
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