COVID19 - School Closure - Day 157 School Reopens - Day 71
Last night was anything short of horrible. Nothing was newsworthy throughout the day which allowed me to concentrate. As 5PM PT rolled around and polls on the East Coast started to close, I started to follow NBC (the one channel I get with my dinky little antennae). It started with Biden leading the count 11-3 when Vermont and Indiana were "done." Then as the night wore on.. emotions went high and low. Florida was spotlighted over and over again... and at about 6PM... with so many counties showing up RED and the infamous Miami-Dade still up in the air... you kinda knew.
Initial signs of Ohio... Pennsylvania... North Carolina trending blue... made dinner much more enjoyable. After dinner... those states flipped. Now it was Texas' turn and like 2016... like 2012... like all my recollection... that state continued to ooze crimson. Latino voters in the south east were attributed to the surprise turn of events. "No landslide" was immediately declared.
As the night wore on... and everyone was doing the math... nothing added up. Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Georgia... states that Obama and Biden kept hitting... did not flip. The state maps were ridden with red with small spots of blue. For some reason, the left leaning analyst on NBC kept on holding out - saying the urban, college educated early mail-in ballots could be the deciding factor.
The kids didn't know what was going on... they were cheering for the numbers. They saw 270... and were jumping on the couch when Biden won NY. And they sulked when the fly-overs turned red, one by one.
The math still didn't add up. Even when Fox News declared Zona flipping -- pissing off the world, specifically the White House. But the math still didn't add up.... those margins in the battleground states were too large to pull in.
I went to bed at 1AM.... hopeless. Dejected. That lonely... fearful... devastated feeling crept in again. Like it did in 2016. Like the Super Bowl. Like the NBA Championship. Like the World Series. Walking that Green Mile prior to ultimate execution.
Then at 5:30AM... my alarm went off. Immediately checked Twitter and Google News. Lo' and behold... those margins have narrowed. In fact... Wisconsin swung all the way around. And all the news outlets are saying that the mail-in ballots are heavy in Biden's favor. The math started to come together after Michigan was won.
At this point... we didn't even need Pennsylvania or Georgia. We needed 6 more votes from Nevada to hit 270.
As the clock strikes midnight on marking the end of the 2nd night... we're still 6 votes, 1 state away. A legal battle is inevitable. Lawyers already started petitioning in all those states demanding a recount.
All the while... Congress remains a stalemate between the House and Senate.
"Why do you vote for Biden?" Anderson asked....
"I vote, not for the person, but the policy. It helps...that the Donald is a prick."
As big of a prick and a-hole that he is... half the nation is still with him. My parents voted for him. If not for the mishandling of COVID, big-bro would've voted for him.
"What happened to you? Why are you red-hair step child in your family?" Joyce asks.
"Cuz the Holy Spirit dwells in me...." I sarcastically answer.
For the record... she also voted Biden/Harris.
And now.... we wait.
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