Called this afternoon for Biden-Harris. What a week. As I expected, it will be difficult to fathom what I was expecting just 4 days ago. Since then, so little sleep, fanatic refreshing of Five-Thirty-Eight’s blog and NYTimes vote counts. and 270toWin.com Endless factoring possibilities. It looked like it would come down to AZ and NV…
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Trump calls it tonight with the red states reporting. Everyone else says wait, Trump refuses to concede, tries to shut down the vote with lawsuits. FL nevertheless calls early for Biden and MN too. We already know PA will take its time, since they just started counting today. Trump will try to get SCOTUS to…
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The sleep of reason produces monsters — Francisco Goya
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I feel the need to write things down, because I feel that with each passing day it’s hard to reconstruct how rapidly the expectations have changed from the day before. Right now, I feel that the polls predict a sanguine lead for Biden over Trump. Still, I anxiously refresh electoralvote.com and FiveThirtyEight.com daily, trending to…
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this is pretty on the nose, from 58 yrs ago:Propaganda by its very nature is an enterprise for perverting the significance of events and of insinuating false intentions… The propagandist must insist on the purity of his own intentions and, at the same time, hurl accusations at his enemy. The propagandist will not accuse the…
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That he never develops serious symptoms. That in a few weeks he comes out bragging that his good genes got him through this, that the virus was nothing, and that he’s vindicated in blowing off any and all concerns about Covid safety. It’s also plausible this whole thing is made up (even with the complicity…
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