So here we are, still waiting. It should be noted that Biden is ahead of Trump by 3.5 million popular votes. By comparison, in 2016 Hillary beat Donald by 2.9 million votes. And since we’re talking about popular vote statistics, Trump 2020 is beating Hillary by about 3 million, but Biden 2020 is beating Hillary by over 6 million and counting. That sounds wonderful, but it’s been noted that Florida alone had 6 million voters who did not vote in 2016. Imagine how Florida might have turned out if all those voters had gone to the polls. That one item alone underscores to me that the Democratic Party is its own worst enemy, not the Republicans.

Some random facts gleaned so far:

• A surprising number of Black men voted for Trump, the highest ever. Black women supported Biden at the same levels as Clinton in 2016 and Obama in 2008 and 2012: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/black-men-drifted-democrats-toward-trump-record-numbers-polls-show-n1246447
• And interesting analysis of Latino voting in south Florida, Texas, and Arizona shows a diverse, some might say fragmented, group of voters. Needless to say the Democrats did poorly with Latinos in Florida and Texas, better elsewhere including Arizona. I can’t provide a link, but an editorial stated that what pulled in many Latinos in south Florida was how Trump treated Cuba, Bolivia, and Venezuela. That is Trump used strong-man tactics that did nothing to fix the issues, but made him appear strong, and thus appealed to many of the Latino voters who have emigrated from those countries and, I believe I read, would accept revenge via Trump’s treatment of those countries if they couldn’t get a proper solution.
• For whatever reason, the economy was the top concern of voters, followed by the pandemic. Never realizing that the economy is shit because of how the pandemic has been so grossly mis-managed by the Trump administration.
• That about half the voters in this country are still incredibly selfish, racist, misogynistic, and just down right stupid in voting for Trump. We have some real issues in this country, and the Democrats are going to have to really work to address them. And that doesn’t mean trips to the Hamptons (I’m looking at you, Hillary) when things get stressful.

Meanwhile, back at the ranch, the pandemic still rages on. Here’s today’s statistics.

I kept away from the news for the better part of today (except for this morning, of course). It wasn’t going to do any good doom scrolling through all the news waiting for final results. I got this around 8pm Orlando time, and when I checked right before writing this post, the numbers hadn’t changed. Biden needs just six more electoral college votes to win the Presidency. It’s been a nail-biter the entire way. I’ve been voting since I was old enough in 1972, and I’ve never seen one drag out like this. But then I’ve never seen a party as dishonest as the Republican party is today trying to cheat another four years.

In case you’re curious, I grew up in a Republican household in Atlanta, listening to William F. Buckley every Sunday on my local PBS station with my dad. I voted for Nixon in 1972, Ford in 1976, and Reagan in 1980. It was during the first Regan administration that I came to see how corrupt an administration could get, far more than Nixon. Trump is no different than Reagan was in that respect. I tried to vote for a Democrat in 1984 by voting for Walter Mondale, but Reagan won every state except Minnesota. Everyone talks about Biden picking a female vice president running mate, but Mondale picked Geraldine Ferraro for his running mate in 1984. It’s taken us 36 years to pick another woman VP running mate.

Trump is railing against the voting, as usual, and his lawyer minions are filing lawsuits to derail the counting. This is after he declared victory. Right, Frumpy-boy, right.

Everyone is calling Biden the winner, and I’m just going along with what they call. Time to put myself to bed and see what tomorrow brings.