Several things can co-exist: 1. #Biden will likely win. 2. Democrats ran a horrendously bad campaign. 3. #Trump can now claim validation for his abuses. 4. The oligarchy is very pleased. 5. Working people remain screwed. 6. The system is irredeemably corrupt. Tweet by Peter Daou @peterdaou Survived Lebanese Civil War in the 80s. Remixer/keyboardist in the 90s. Political activist in the 2000s. Proud husband to @leeladaou. peterdaou.com
The “close divide” in USA only exists among white people. Every other racial demographic is clear in majority opposition to Trump but white ppl are 70% of US. Again, there’s this constant effort to frame the narrative in ways that avoid examination of white identity politics. Tweet by Bree Newsome Bass @BreeNewsomeartist – free black woman – “no weapon formed against you will prevail, and you will refute every tongue that accuses you.” Isaiah 54:17 North Carolina, USA whentheyseeusvote.com
Zapata County, Texas is the second most Hispanic county in America.
In 2012, Obama won it by 43 points.
In 2016, Hillary won it by 33 points.
In 2020, Biden lost it by 5 points.
What a disaster.
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Covid19 has changed my election watching experience. Not the mechanics of watching the returns come in, we almost always watch them alone, at home, but, now, I feel isolated – sitting at home – and we watch this sorry show with dread. When we first turn on the television at about six, our time, it is nine on the East Coast and the polls have been closed for an hour. Trump is running ahead of my – at least – expectations and I worry that 2020 will be a replay of 2016 but, by midnight, it doesn’t seem to be panning out that way. At midnight, it seemed that Biden has a better chance than Trump, seemed being the operative word here.
Michele and I had just got back from Trump Territory where the enthusiasm for President Trump permeates the air. We spent two days and three nights in and around Tecopa, near the Amargosa River. We were near the Dumont Dunes Off-road Recreational area, and, on Monday, leaving Tecopa, we drove by lines of huge RVs towing specialized offroading vehicles proudly sporting huge Trump/Pense flags along with blue-line flags. But, when we got back home late Monday night, I started reading about a Blue Wave. “Hell, maybe Biden could even carry Texas and North Carolina,” they said. But, on Tuesday, when I turned on the TV, the bringer of reality, in this case, I started feeling an overwhelming dread. I should have known better.
Now it is Wednesday and the day is glorious, cool, and very clear, without a trace of smoke. Joe Biden has been declared the winner in Michigan and Wisconsin by the AP and I still feel on edge. I think Biden will win but I don’t think the country will very easily heal.
I feel that Biden won, for a lack of a better way to put it, by brute force rather than persuasion. For all his alleged accommodation with the former Republican elites, he didn’t get many Republicans – other than the Lincoln Brigade who seemed to have a personal beef with Trump – to change their minds. He doesn’t know that part of the electorate – I’m open to suggestions that he doesn’t any part of the electorate except his corporate donors but that is not germain here – and, I have to admit, I don’t know that part of the electorate either. But, it’s not my job so it is not inconsistent to be bothered that nobody in the Biden Campaign seems to have a handle on almost fifty percent of the people likely to vote.
No matter how it happens, I’m OK with a President Joe Biden. I do think he understands – as much as a fossil fuel supported politician can understand – that the Global Climate Change Crisis is real. Today, the Biden Campaign, in a very confident statement, Tweeted Today, the Trump Administration officially left the Paris Climate Agreement. And in exactly 77 days, a Biden Administration will rejoin it. I hope so.
Couldn’t, as usual, agree more as we sit here in Colorado waiting for our Nevada ballots to be counted…but WHAT is it about the Trumpezoids? Fear of…universal healthcare? Honoring international agreements? Satanic sacrifices of The Unborn in pizza parlor basements? Or maybe just admiration for people like Trump and Sheldon Adelson who can bankrupt their partners and subcontractors and walk away owning the Knesset and the Presidency, though who owns the presidency of the United states is a curious question…anyway, since Nevada actually COUNTS their ballots it may be another little while…
I wish I better understood the sane Trump voters, they can’t all believe the pedophiles are running free in the pizza parlor basement.
I am feeling almost exactly the same. I too think Biden will eventually win but it’s kind of joyless because the results are so close that it legitimizes the ongoing horror of Trump and his many millions of supporters. I’ll never really understand in my heart how we – the US – came to this.
Except for the short period between Roosevelt and Johnson, I’m beginning to think we’ve always been like this.