My wife and I voted at a polling place just a quarter mile from our home at about 7:30 a.m. today. We arrived about 6:50 a.m., and the line outside was about 50 feet long. Just 5 minutes later, it was 250 feet long. I must give credit to the poll workers, who were professional and well-organized. The whole experience was not bad at all.
I'll bet I can speak for millions of Americans when I say I'm glad Election Day is finally here. After many months of speculation, trash talking, ubiquitous polls, endless TV talking heads, op/eds and Twitter wars, it's show time.
Actually, the early and absentee voting has been going on for many weeks, but today is when things start coming to a head, with in-person voting from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. at thousands of poll locations across the nation. Ironically, some states have been receiving mail-in ballots for weeks, but won't begin tabulating them until today or tomorrow. In some cases, in-person votes will end up being tabulated prior to the mail-in ballots.
The number of people voting early and/or by mail this year greatly exceeds anything we've seen in the past. So viewers waiting with baited breath to check out tonight's cable news political reports ought to remember that adage about taking things with a grain of salt. In some states, it might look like Trump has a big lead, but after mail-in ballots are counted, the margin could shrink or even flip toward Biden.
Already, there are hundreds of lawsuits pending regarding ballots and ballot rules in many states. The disputes include everything from deadlines to signatures to postmarks, plus absentee rule changes, ballot harvesting... This has the potential to turn into a major shit-show that plays out over six or eight ugly weeks, if not longer. One of the biggest dangers is that the whole thing might remain unresolved by mid-December, when the federal Electors are supposed to cast their ballots. This could throw the election into the U.S. House of Representatives.
One thing I dearly hope is that, as I expect will be the case, following a second straight embarrassing performance during a presidential election, dozens of pollsters will be thoroughly humiliated and discredited. And that many of them will elect to get out of the polling business and find something else to do for a living.
The mainstream media has already marginalized itself, and their woke obsessions will hammer the bottom line for many news organizations (Get woke, go broke). We can only hope that the same happens to many of these partisan pollsters, whose intent to discourage and demoralize conservatives is as brazen as what so-called "journalists" have engaged in for many years.
Meantime, brace yourselves, as the left-wing anarchists are licking their chops at the opportunity to burn down our cities and do physical harm to Trump supporters. Who knows, maybe they'll fan out from the downtown areas and into the neighborhoods, being the brownshirts they are.
I've already availed myself of the Second Amendment more than once. Now, to get a generator and have it wired into the house, as I continue to believe our power grid is highly vulnerable to hacking and sabotage. It's far better to be over-prepared than unprepared.
May you live in interesting times, indeed.
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