Crossing fingers

[sleigh]

 THE MUTE BUTTON HAS BEEN ACTIVATED! This is a decidedly political post, and the comment sections on political posts (as with posts on religion) tend to become toxic waste dumps. Please note that any comments made on this post, regardless of what you say or whether you agree or disagree with me, will be deleted as soon as I see them, so PLEASE don't even bother. If you repost deleted comments, you’ll be blocked.

 

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I really don’t expect the presidential election to be called on Tuesday (except perhaps by over-confident candidates) -- I expect that with the high number of mail-in ballots, which in many states can’t even begin to be counted until after the polls close, the final result won’t be known until later in the week. That’s fine; let’s count all the votes!

 

But what I hope will happen is that the election won’t be particularly close, that when we do have a winner (and those of you who know me at all know who I hope that winner to be) there’s no question about who won. 

 

What I don’t want is a very close election: where there will be a suspicion that the results are due to dirty tricks; a repeat of Gore/Bush where the Supreme Court decided the election; where the winner of the popular vote loses in the electoral college; an election decided by how a number of lawsuits against the states are decided; where we see violence breaking out because the losing side decides the election was ‘stolen.’ Any of those scenarios will leave the nation more divided and broken than it already is.

 

There’s an old cliché that state secretaries (who in most states are the people in charge of the elections) always pray for a blowout victory. So do I, in this case.

 

So if you haven’t voted already (Denise and I did that weeks ago), go vote -- and be safe about it!