Things I’m Looking For Today
History will be made no matter who wins the presidency.
Harris, if elected, will be the first woman and the first person of South Asian descent to be elected president.
Trump, if elected, will be the first person elected president with a felony conviction (let alone, 34 of them).
The Ann Selzer poll reported in the Desmoines Register released last week that has Harris beating Trump by 3 percentage points in that state has really turned things on its ear. Not considered a swing state by any stretch of the imagination, the Iowa poll has sparked the notion that other traditionally conservative states might follow suit in a similar model. That this news hasn’t created a joyful “Whoop” among D’s is very probably a result of the PTSD that still afflicts Hillary’s 2016 voters. Myself included.
Former LA Dodger first baseman Steve Garvey will “strike out looking” as Adam “Shifty” Schiff effortlessly serves up fast balls and sliders in California’s Senate race. Texas Senator Cruz hopes to cruise to another victory, this time against former NFL linebacker and present US Congressman Colin Allred, who has chipped away at Cruz’s iHeartMedia-fed lead. If Allred has any chance at all to defeat “Cancun” Cruz, he will need a boost by Texas voters who align with the so-called “Iowa Effect.”
California could contribute the most congressional district flips per state (not fair because they have the most districts, but there it is). In CA-41, Will Rollins is neck and neck with 32-year veteran Ken Calvert (R) and is campaigning more aggressively than in the mid-term, where he lost by the least number of votes in decades. In CA CD-22, David Valadao (R) is duking it out with former State Assemblyman Rudy Salas in a toss-up that would elect a Hispanic to a Hispanic-dominated district that always sees victories by minority White Republican candidates because of low Hispanic turnout. Ditto for CA CD-13, another heavy ag area in the Central Valley, where John Duarte (R) is in a rematch with former Assemblyman Adam Gray, who lost to him by 564 votes in 2022.
Overall, I am expecting a Pro-Choice backlash that will upstage the flimsy one we saw in the midterm election in ’22. The horror stories circulating about women being denied care when their pregnancies “go south” (pun not intended) are being repeated, reviled and revisited. Years ago, I read Al Franken’s book “Lies, And The Lying Liars, Who Tell Them” from cover to cover. In a brief discussion of abortion rights, Franken predicted that if (and when) abortion rights are taken from American women, there will be righteous anger and backlash from both sides of the aisle as banning abortion is a political issue for less than a quarter of the electorate.
So now we’ll see…
Did you See how much That Pic of Trump looks like one of those blow up sex dolls you see in porn shops? {Asking for a friend}
1I’ve been fairly confident for a while that Harris will win, and now I’m cautiously optimistic that it will be a blowout. I’m keeping my fingers crossed.
The thing that I have absolute confidence about is that the NSGOP will pull every dirty trick in the book and will invent some new ones. I just hope the rest of us are ready.
2Those of us who operate within the normal limits of human (and humane) behavior are rarely ready for what short-sighted, power-hungry, truly evil people do.
I remember Franken’s book…looks like it’s time to re-read it.
3I still have that book on my shelf. I think I’ll dust it off today. Wishing I had a Tshirt to wear that says “Nauseously Optimistic”. We were going to binge watch The Diplomat tonight instead of talking heads but couldn’t stop watching it over the weekend. One thing I do know, I will hide the whiskey. The 2016 election night about killed me.
4Now we see what the vote count and electoral college counts will be. And then we see what depths MAGAts will sink to if the vote doesn’t go their way. Or maybe “when” instead of “if”.
5Seth Meyers recapped the difference between the candidates pretty well if you open the video. Can skip forward if you want to get to his recap. It’s a long list as you can imagine.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/seth-meyers-closing-message-donald-trump-2024_n_672a0bcfe4b05debb72c0294
Here’s hoping we don’t have TFFG again for 4 more years. I recall how bad I felt in 2016 when he “won” and turned out to be even worse than I dreamed he could be. Evil doesn’t come close.
6I looked and it was ugly. It’s 3:30pm here in India so I hope you all had the luxury of sleeping through it, las I needed to look was Trump at 267.
I’m not as traumatized as I was in 2016, more disappointed that half the damn country is OK with this. Very disappointed. Now to see what happens.
7Well, I guess my optimism was less cautious than cockeyed.
Damn.
8Lesson learned: You can’t ever overestimate the stupidity of the American electorate.
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