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Election 2020: Competing Realities
Just fifty-some odd hours before the last of the polls close and the voting stops…well, not even that is clear in these trying times…we have two very different realities at play for people’s attention. Both are current on my news scanning tabs this afternoon.
The first, from that new competitor for the braindead MSNBC audience:
The second via Instapundit:
HMM: Poll: Donald Trump set to win US presidency by electoral college landslide. “Donald Trump is on course to win four more years in the White House with a one point lead in the popular win, the final Democracy Institute poll for the Sunday Express has found. . . . Significantly, the President has, according to the latest findings, maintained a four point lead of 49 percent to 45 percent in the key swing states including Florida, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. It means he is on course to easily win the electoral college by 326 to 212 votes against his Democrat rival in a result which would shock the world even more than his astonishing defeat of Hilary Clinton in 2016. The Democracy Institute/Sunday Express poll has throughout the campaign been one of the few to predict a Trump victory since March. This is because unlike other polls it only looks at people identifying as likely voters instead of just registered to vote and it has tried to identify the shy Trump vote.”
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To be fair, the first is consistent with all the headlines beamed to us for months now. The prediction in the second is consistent with every other indication the rational and discerning consumer of American politics would have sensed over the same time period. However, if true, the highlighted text is likely a surprise to everyone…again, if true, such data has been blacked out from everything I have seen to-date. (“Maintained” seems a very odd choice of words.)
The next two days are going to be rather interesting to say the least…and somebody’s reality is going to be shattered.
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Please get someone to help with the child proof lids and get back on the meds.
By the power vested in me, I declare this the daily winner of my little corner of the internet.
Aside from being mind-numbingly clownish in the context of all the very real violence and destruction that has gone on in recent months, this one really did make me giggle.
From Madam Althouse earlier today:
More:
And this from Big Mike in the comments:
The guys on the overnight radio spoke last night of Trump campaigning like he was 20 points behind…like a winner would. (Did anyone ever note Tom Brady not practicing like he was a 10 point underdog for the Super Bowl? Winners sprint to the end. Or is it desperation like Drudge tells everyone?)
From RedState:
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“2 to 1” seems a bit low…but we’ll see tomorrow.
Is Sundown Joe sundowning?
I’ll take it. Thanks
As of 5:45 PM CST this evening, this is a pretty fair representation of the way I have observed the race…or “my reality”:
[emphasis added] (Much more detail at the link. Go read it all.)
We’ll see if “my reality” survives the night.
The morning after (my 6:30 AM “report”): The voting for Trump stopped when the polls closed last night so now Team Biden knows how many stockpiled mail in “votes” they need to pull out of which store rooms. (Joe had the same look in his eye last night the Obama always had when he knew the fix was in.) They already flipped WI overnight and are now working on PA, NC, MI, and GA. I’m not sure they have enough in storage to get PA but never underestimate Philadelphia’s capacity for additional “voters” when needed. Expect one of the others to flip today…followed by a quick declaration of victory and call to move (i.e. start the healing).
Final thoughts from Sarah Hoyt at Instapundit late last night:
Seen on Instapundit this morning:
Some troll on my twitter feed yesterday typed out her indignation and anger that a dozen Republicans were stationed 100 yards from the polling place, carrying flags. She thought that was the most nervy thing that had ever happened in America. She was really losing it over that encounter.
My reply was that since she supported the Party that had encouraged the BLM to beat store owners to death with baseball bats wrapped in barbed wire, she should not be all that concerned about American flags.
Powerline tonight:
Plus this unverified chart:
No matter how the presidential election comes out, one thing is clear: One of the two major parties making up our system is so wholly corrupt that this little experiment in self government cannot NOT drop into the abyss very soon.
There is no sense or logic about any of this. They are not even trying to hide it…with the media organs all-in on their side, there will be no real push back.
666:
This will be important for historical purposes (i.e. memory holing is already underway):