Election Day Minus Nine

Steyn Online ^ | 25 Oct 2020 | Mark Steyn

[Rummyfan]

There are two elections taking place in America - one on the quaintly named "Election Day", the other in the weeks (and possibly months) before and after. Having access to what he calls some "deep-in-the-weeds" data, Powerline's Steve Hayward writes:

Early votes cast already supposedly favor Biden (assuming respondents are being truthful with surveyors that they have in fact cast their ballots), but of people saying they intend to vote in person on election day, Trump is ahead almost 3 to 1 in some states. My conclusion: Trump is going to win a landslide among votes cast on election day. But with more than 50 million votes or more being cast by mail, even a small lead may disappear in the week after, depending on how the vote count goes.

Maybe. I would have thought a three-to-one GOP lead on Election Day would be hard to overcome, even for the wiliest Dem operatives. But, if Steve's prediction of a starkly bifurcated election result is correct, it guarantees that, whoever prevails, the result will not be accepted by the other side. Which is great news for those who think the biggest problem in America is its placid social tranquility.

[Rummyfan]

I noted a day or two back that Biden's hostility to traditional energy sources because "they pollute" must surely hurt him in swing states like Pennsylvania. New York councilman Joe Borelli puts it in a nutshell:

Why is it ok for a Biden to make 80k a month from a foreign gas company, but not ok for a Pennsylvania man to make 80k per year from an American gas company?

That's brilliant: It's not just that the Bidens are on the take but that they're on the take from exactly the businesses the left profess to abhor.

[4Runner]

Vote By Mail and Early Voting are nothing but weaponized fraud. Every politician on the right who has stood by with no objection and allowed this treasonous charade to proceed unopposed in every city and county in America should be kicked out of office for betrayal of the public trust.

[Tennessee Nana]

8 days and a wake up...

[deport]

Vote By Mail and Early Voting are nothing but weaponized fraud.

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That may well be true but we need some form of voting to allow for
all the employed who aren't at their home on election day. In today's
working environment lots of people are away from their residency
on election day.

Now I agree that it should be monitored and guidelines for early
voting should be uniform and policed equally. Today uniformity
isn't anywhere near consistency. JMO