I thought it would be close and its incredibly close. The polls do not reflect the grip Donald Trump has on people from an economic standpoint. He strikes fear in the hearts of the have nots and greed in the hearts of those who have too much. As James Carvell once said…”It’s always about the economy, stupid.”
I wrote on my modest blog to never trust a poll related to Donald Trump and I got that right.
I had Nevada on my key state list and I’m giving myself a pat on the back for that as well. As Nevada goes the country goes.
I picked Joe Biden to win and in poker parlance if I had to pick between Joe Biden’s cards and Donald Trump’s cards this morning I’d say Biden has a pair of kings over a pair of nines while Trump still needs a card to fill an inside straight.
I ‘think’ Joe Biden will be our next president come Friday or so, but I would never ever count out the grifter rogue Donald Trump and what he could pull off at the last hour. Fifty three cards to a deck, right?
A part of me almost wants to see Trump win just to see if he will replace Bill Barr with Mike Gundy as our next Attorney General. Albeit…Gundy never went to law school and can’t beat OU…but what does that matter.
I also picked former Auburn head coach Tommy Tuberville to beat the extremely qualified Doug Jones for a Senate seat in Alabama. You go 7-3 at Auburn over Alabama and you get yourself a United States senate seat. The Peter Principle has never been more alive in the South than this morning after the election. Someone please tell the South they lost the Civil War but got SEC West football and Tommy Tuberville in return.
I also never bought into the notion Biden could win states in the South with a liberal black woman as his running mate. Maybe Georgia will prove me wrong later today, but I’m skeptical. The flip side is Kamala Harris may have stoked black voter turnout in Milwaukee, Detroit, Philadelphia. I don’t think so, but that there’s that possibility. When Biden won South Carolina in the Democratic primaries it was evident blacks trust Joe Biden more than either Kamala Harris or Cory Booker. Tell me I’m wrong.
So we sit… watch and wait with the hope we don’t see Trump in a downtown parade in Miami looking every bit the piece of Fidel Castro with orange hair and a Slovenian escort at his side in celebration of his re-election.
How far has America devolved culturally?
You tell me.
Maureen Dowd, that was for you, babe. See you on the beach in Miami soon.