As you know, I’ve been having some problems with my vision. So I could put more distance between my eyes and the monitor, I made some changes here at Guerrilla Central. I ordered a stand for my desk and it came yesterday, so I started organizing and moving everything around while watching yesterday’s election coverage. Looks pretty good, but only because you can’t see all the stuff that fell off the desk when I moved the printer!
And the stands started to slide around on the desk, so I ordered some Velcro to keep them in place. Hopefully I can avoid at least some migraines!
An Arlingtonian shows President Trump a finger as his motorcade makes it’s way back to the White House after a stop at their campaign headquarters in Rosslyn. pic.twitter.com/q3TfGnSusn
I went to bed early, I couldn’t take the stress. I woke up at 4:30, and was flabbergasted to see that while it still looks like Joe Biden will win when the mail-in ballots are counted, Trumpism itself is alive and well — and my worse-case scenario (Mitch McConnell remains as majority leader) may came true — depending on ballot runoffs in Maine and Georgia!
Guys, the Senate race in Maine isn't decided. Susan Collins is at 49.5% and dropping, and the state has instant runoff voting. The two liberals are at 48% combined, and two other candidates have a combined 5%. Only 66% of votes have been counted.
The bad news is, a quarter of a million people dead from covid, and half of Americans wanted to reward Donald Trump with a second term. Even if Joe Biden wins, that’s what we’re dealing with.
"Voters were divided on whether the nation has contained the spread of the virus. About half of voters said the virus is somewhat or mostly under control. And about half described the coronavirus as out of control." AP VoteCast via @joshboak@hrfingerhuthttps://t.co/gjaKLfOmxX
However: Remember Election Night 2018? We were all in despair, and then as the numbers trickled in, it turned out to be a very sneaky wave — and a big victory for Democrats.
Biden campaign manager @jomalleydillon just issued a statement calling Trump's comments on the election “outrageous, unprecedented, and incorrect.” She said it was "a naked effort to take away the democratic rights of American citizens." https://t.co/0mV4BtYsJ4
Biden: "We knew this was going to go long…It’s not my place or Donald Trump’s place to declare who has won this election, that’s the decision of the American people.”
I can't decide if the car horns are inspiring or heartbreaking-I think they are both. pic.twitter.com/SmpZF2y1te
Chris Christie on Pres. Trump's election remarks: "I talk tonight… as a former U.S. Attorney. There's just no basis to make that argument tonight. There just isn't."
If you want cheering up, watch @foxnews. This whole segment was a model of clear, calm & responsible reporting. It must be driving Donald Trump absolutely NUTS pic.twitter.com/FbWw0u2ny4
half of my brain is "relax, Biden can win this" and the other half is the sound of ten thousand forks being jammed into five hundred running garbage disposals while every car alarm in the neighborhood goes off
The reason Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin are still counting mail-in ballots is because the GOP-controlled state legislatures in all of those states blocked attempts to pass legislation that would allow processing ballots well before Election Day, as happens in other states.
That, and the Republican challengers who showed up at the counting sites and are challenging Every. Single. Ballot. Whee!
Don’t despair. The numbers will swing back and forth all week, all is not lost. It just won’t be pretty.
Here’s where the race for the White House stands now, based on the states called so far.
Breaking News: President Trump won Florida, denying Joe Biden an opportunity to flip one of the biggest battleground states on the map. https://t.co/hC4yyIjamh
Susan Collins now below 50% in Maine. With ranked choice voting, that's no small thing pic.twitter.com/2G208jxfO0
— Michael A. Cohen (NOT TRUMP’S FORMER FIXER) (@speechboy71) November 4, 2020
Guys, the Senate race in Maine isn't decided. Susan Collins is at 49.5% and dropping, and the state has instant runoff voting. The two liberals are at 48% combined, and two other candidates have a combined 5%. Only 66% of votes have been counted.
Why is Michigan so late? Because 60 Republican challenger appeared at the counting site and are challenging every ballot. This has slowed down the process. #ElectionNight
Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin are reporting ELECTION DAY votes earliest and ABSENTEE VOTES latest. We went over this a lot in the past few months. They won't have final results until the end of the week at the earliest. There's no point in looking at them now.
The USPS has turned down a federal judge’s order to sweep mail processing facilities serving 15 states, saying it would stick to its own inspection schedule.
The order came after the agency disclosed that more than 300,000 ballots could not be traced. https://t.co/piATxquT5l
Here are the roughly 300,000 mail-in votes that received a scan indicating they were entered into the mail processing system — but showed no corresponding destination scan that would confirm their delivery. (USPS Data, 11/2) pic.twitter.com/6qkUOqmDNP
