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Keep calm.
Keep counting.
Get to work.
If Biden holds on to win, as it looks right now like he will, then where the day after Election Day four years ago felt like the day after the Pearl Harbor raid, this will feel like the day after the Guadalcanal campaign ended: we just won a long, hard, costly victory with a long, hard slog still ahead of us.
If not for the advantages our system gives to low-population states, and the disproportionate concentration of reactionaries and reactionary culture in those states, we would have won this war already.
As it is, the reactionaries are still disproportionately old. Time is on our side.
Thanks for that RD. I needed to hear it.
From “King Beauregard” over on the Washington Monthly‘s blog:
Absolutely.
PS: Count how many seconds it takes you to breathe in normally. Then, breathe in, hold for 2, breathe out to the same count you breathed in to. Repeat, repeat, repeat. Drops adrenaline. 😉
Biden has gotten more votes than any candidate in history, including 3.9 million more than HRC 4 years ago, with more still being counted. I am feeling extremely optimistic, given how many votes are left to be counted in MI and PA and NV, from which counties in each state, and how more of them are likely blue than red. I think we’ve got this.
I’m also missing HRC a lot…
It does not matter how many votes Biden got; it’s the electoral votes what’s killing our democracy.
Lady V, i believe he beat Obama’s total vote count as well. I suspect O will not be amused if that is true, although it would be hard to beat Obama’s 2008 EC tally. I wonder also how many of those votes could be credited to having Kamala on the ticket.
Yep, he beat everyone’s vote count. Bellecat, I know we need the electoral votes–and they need to go! I’m very confident now, at 8:25ET on Weds night, that Biden’s got this.
How is the senate looking?
I started watching some, then I learned the Mitch and Graham got re-elected, I wanted to vomit and turned off the media…
Leaning Rethug, but still up in the air.
I wonder how many of my fellow non-elite white Americans can be salvaged.
Another quote, from “Lizard” on Wonkette:
Ant that’s what I find very disturbing about our country.
All those people that have been voting and supporting a criminal, con-man that has no moral compass.
What kind of human beings are they?
Very few are the “billionaires”…
AMEN!
Joe just spoke about winning.
https://www.pscp.tv/JoeBiden/1OyKAgjReAeJb?t=3m36s
I really loved that. Watched it on the BBC, and the correspondent said afterward, “That was rather glorious.” It was!
There is one danger left, which is the possibility that they could somehow bribe an Elector to cast his vote for Trump, or perhaps that a Republican legislature would appoint Electors who would vote for Trump. That is why it is important to win Pennsylvania, so that there is too much of a margin to sneak that through. 270-268 is good enough in normal times, but not with this Republican Party. Remember in 2016 when four or so Electors from states which Hillary won, refused to vote for her? I am not going to be completely confident about this until Biden is sworn in as President. i know that there was a Supreme Court case about faithless electors, which i have not read, but i think that it was about a state’s ability to punish one, not that they were not legally bound not to do it.
I wonder–if Hillary had won, or if their votes would have made the difference between victory and defeat for her, would they have dared to defect?
Any elector who did that might well be obliged to move to another state, on pain of ostracism, or worse.
But yeah, we must watch for EVERYTHING with these SOBs.
It is not by far a new controversial electoral issue.
A must read book.
We need Pennsylvania…
I heard the PA Senator speak today to BBC. He said that nearly all of the outstanding votes are mail-in from heavily blue cities, that Biden is carrying mail-in vote by astonishing margins, and also carrying cities by high margins. It’s just a matter of time for the counting, as RD said yesterday I think (days are running together).
Meanwhile, NV is holding Washoe County votes until tomorrow… don’t want to end the election and have to pay for a recount, maybe? I figured out Washoe County doesn’t have enough outstanding votes (only 14% left) for Trump to win, as he needs at least 10K more than Biden, and only 27,886 total remain. And he’s losing in that county. Just as he is in Clark (Las Vegas). NV is going to go to Biden, and those 6 EVS get him to 270!
If we get Arizona, now worrisome, or Georgia, where I think we will fall a little short, or, and imperatively, Pennsylvania.