It’s very early on Election Night. In the west the polls are still open. In the east, polls are closing or already closed. Votes are dribbling in and so as a result of that phenomenon, Texas has been showing up as blue on the political reporting screens. Texas turning blue is the perennial wet dream of the Democratic party. It’s a bit on a par with Don Quixote riding a unicorn. There are those who say it’s impossible but there are also those who say, no, it can and will happen, but it simply hasn’t happened yet.
Tonight Dallas got counted first and that put the state on the board as blue. But the reality of the situation is that the demographic is changing in Texas and it may well vote blue one day as it becomes more of a diversified population. Predictions have already been made that as early as 2032, Texas may stop being a deep red stronghold. In all events, Texas is not the only anomaly for the moment. Ohio is blue as I write. I doubt it will stay there but we do live in an age where anything is possible. Enjoy that mirage while it lasts, too, and then take a look at what races have been decided.
First of all, you’ve heard that Jim Justice has won Joe Manchin’s former senate seat in West Virginia, so that’s one more step towards Republican control of the upper chamber. And unfortunately Rick Scott got reelected. I don’t know why Floridians are such masochists, but that does seem to be the way of things.
On the sane side of the ledger, Mark Robinson lost his race for the governorship of North Carolina. I cannot breath a sigh of relief heavy enough. Robinson was utterly toxic except for the most hard core MAGAs — and unfortunately, there are a lot of those people not only in North Carolina but in America. Robinson’s downfall does carry a message that you can only be so insane and if you cross a certain line you will not succeed.
Robinson more than crossed the line and even Donald Trump wouldn’t be seen with him. Robinson then took to campaigning with cardboard cutouts of Trump and sometimes of Trump and Melania. I have to say, of all the ridiculous things I have ever seen in politics and particularly the past eight years of MAGA, that took the cake. And he didn’t do it just once, the Trump cutouts were his constant companians. Maybe he sleeps with them now. We’ll have to ask his sister-in-law.
While the powers of darkness may have failed in North Carolina, they seem to be doing well in Florida where the six-week abortion amendment failed. Florida remains as draconian and dystopian as ever. No surprise.
We will keep bringing you tidbits as the night progresses. Since it’s just short of nine p.m. on the east coast, we have a lonnnnng way to go.
Fingers crossed.
More things change, the more they stay the same. I can be stubborn… but not dense. This state is granite stupid. Must be the heat🤦🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️
I have to admit watching the results come in and Kornaicki’s drilling down on counties in GA and NC and with concerns sort of in PA I’m feeling a little sick inside. I didn’t expect Harris to win FL or Texas either. I also feared with that 60% threshold the abortion rights amendment in FL might not get passed. But Scott winning? I didn’t see the margin but how early it got announced makes it seem it wasn’t all that close. I fear we might see the same in TX with Cruz. WTF is wrong with people? Also, in both GA and my state of NC counties with a high population of black people have been underperforming for Harris compared to four years ago. WTF? I can’t believe it’s black women either sitting it out or voting for Trump. It has to be black men and they can go straight to f**king hell as far as I’m concerned. Same with Latino men who I heard are late breaking for Trump in some places. I see an ugly misogyny in play here. It takes me back to college and teammates who were black and how they’d talk about women. Ugly doesn’t begin to cover it. It smacks of “Trump be President and we gonna show them bitches who’s boss” type mentality.
And of course there’s my fellow white males who are both misogynistic AND racist. Yeah, I’m feeling sick inside. It’s not over but I fear that like in 2016 I might find myself unable to take it and just going to bed. Not really getting any rest but with some faint hope that somehow when I turn on the TV again it will all have turned out ok.
Human stupidity is a virus we’ve not found a cure for. Blacks voting for white supremacists. Women voting against their rights. Parents voting for climate disaster their children will face. Latinos voting for their family members to be deported. Let’s remember the saying over the entrance to Hell: Abandon hope all ye who enter here. Buckle up.
I’m in MN and with you all the way, it’s very disheartening to think how low the threshold for competency is in American politics. It’s not
all bad but we certainly still have plenty of
deplorables in office.