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    Posted: November 06 2020 at 5:29am

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I tuned out of social media, news and the forums on Wednesday and most of Thursday and feel much better for it.  I have family and friends who didn't and swallowed a chitload of drama that I wanted to avoid.  I re-entered the wider world to find one had a clear path to victory where the other did not.  Which is exactly what I expected.  I will admit, I'm surprised that voting is as close as it is.    

There is no proof of wide-spread voter fraud.  Absentee ballots are the last to be counted and are running 60% to 80% in Biden's favor. Once that's done and the states declare, it's  a matter of formalities which we won't have until December when the Electorates cast their votes.  

Best case scenario is Pelosi and Biden approach Trump to make a deal to ease into a peaceful transition.  

In the mean time wait for the mother of all on-air meltdowns.  Not something I'll watch.
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Just as long as all the electors are faithful...
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I can't imagine they will fail to be faithful.  That would open up a kettle of fish neither Democrats or Republicans would care to deal with.
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I just watched the historical consession speaches of McCainR, Bush SnrR. and Hilary ClintonD.  Each one urged unity.  

McCain, a true American hero IMHO, gave an impassioned speech - against a nasty crowd who were baying for more fight.  He turned them around, because he realised that unity of the American people trumps (Ha, ha!) partisan politics; the crowd saw the rightness of it from his words.  Republicans are just as patriotic as Democrats. They do not call it the United States of America without good reason.

I hope I am wrong, but I can't see Trump doing that  (even though, with the coronavirus and its economic ripples, America is in a crisis).  I just see him throwing his toys out of the pram.  He ruled by division.*    I can't see him losing his rule without expanding on it.










* Only under Trump have Republicans deviated from accepted behavioural norms, like going armed to protest outside counting stations and intimidating the counters within.  Normally they are polite and reasoning.
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great one for the psychologists....... 

Never  watched a naccisstic  person fall from so high .........

Going to be quite spectacular.......
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Originally posted by WitchMisspelled WitchMisspelled wrote:

I can't imagine they will fail to be faithful.  That would open up a kettle of fish neither Democrats or Republicans would care to deal with.


I said that because I heard on CBS news that one of the strategies that was being bounced around the Trump camp was buying a couple of faithless electors.
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This was what they were talking about on CBS that day:

https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-discussed-replacing-electoral-college-with-loyalists-nyt-2020-11
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