Finally! The end of this election is at hand! I do not believe it will be called tonight, and whether or not my candidate wins we as Americans deserve the candidate that wins. Get out and vote. Even if it's just for your local and state politicians and ballot measures.
I just want to take a bunch of sleeping medicine and call in today so I can get this day over with. This damn election has made it nearly impossible to be around my family.
Mencken quotes just cuz: Spoiler The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary. Government is a broker in pillage, and every election is a sort of advance auction in stolen goods. Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance. Democracy, too, is a religion. It is the worship of jackals by jackasses. Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage. Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard. Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under. If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them missionaries for dinner. As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart’s desire at last and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron. I'll be reading his Notes on Democracy tonight. Election season and all its stupidity always makes me want to re-read that book.
2016 is one crazy year so I'm rolling with a couple of crazy predictions. Trump will take Florida, Ohio, and Michigan. But still lose the election.
Word on the street is that Trump has been offered the job of hosting the reality show "The Biggest Loser" next season.
I bet Trump won't even concede the election tonight. He will not be making any concession speech even if it's a clear Hillary victory. He'll give some excuse for why. Knowing him he'll be seething as the poll results come in. Sore loser.
Trump will need to run table in NC, FL, OH, IA, and if he falls short in NV, pick off a state where he currently trails by 2-4 points. Means he would need big surge today to pull off upset. Certainly possible, but odds against.
