[oct. 19 – 26, 2020]
Last week, the final presidential debate happened. It was delightfully uneventful. And by uneventful, I mean, neither of the candidates promoted white supremacy, which was rather nice for a change. Just good ol’ boring politics– kinda. Even with the new ‘Mute’ option, Trump still found it hard not to interrupt. But only 34x this time! That’s pretty impressive. Remember, he cut down from the 128x he interrupted the first time. The ‘mute’ button seemed to keep him on a short leash, but ‘rump will be ‘rump. He still talked over Joe and the moderator, NBC White House correspondent Kristen Welker. However many noticed that Kristen’s ‘calm and collected’ vibe would be much more effective than the previous debates moderator, Chris Wallace. It provided us a night with much less chaos and plenty of good-ol’-Joe’s ‘come on, man’ and even a surprise ‘malarkey‘ visit.

The last debate didn’t do much to change the polls. Numbers still show Biden/Harris in a national 6-point lead. Don’t let that sooth you, though. 2016 had a similar prediction and look what happened there. I’ve attached the projected delegate count below, just as a visual representation of where we’re standing now in the election. We know with all of the GOP’s effort to suppress voters, and we know with Iran, Russia and China meddling in our election— there just isn’t knowing what could happen. Election 2020 is going to be everything the Game of Thrones finale wasn’t. I just hope there’s less fire & blood.

THE GOOD NEWS!
One thing we can remotely feel safe in celebrating is the record BREAKING early voting numbers! As of today, the United States has hit 124% of the total 2016 early voting turnout! With only 8 days until Election Day, rest assured that 58.6 million Americans have already voted nation-wide. And speaking as an early-voter myself, I’ll tell you, submitting that ballot is the closest you’ll ever feel to kicking cult45 in the balls and it is amazing. I’d suggest you study all the names and measures that’ll be appearing on your card. If you’d like a progressive study guide, try this one. Get informed– GO VOTE!
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