Last week's posts at Moon of Alabama:
- November 2 – Hunter Biden's Story Could Help Hillary Clinton To Become Vice President
- November 8 – Why Murdoch Called The Race – by Debs is dead
Related:
How Rupert Murdoch turned against Donald Trump – inews
Statement of Preliminary Findings and Conclusions – OSCE Election Observation Mission
> Public PBS and NPR provided extensive coverage to presidential candidates in their newscasts with President Trump receiving 48 per cent of all politics-related news coverage on both channels, largely critical. Former Vice President Biden and his campaign received 18 per cent of such coverage on PBS and 20 per cent on NPR, most of which was neutral. On the three national TV networks (ABC, CBS, and NBC) President Trump received 63, 56 and 60 per cent of prime time politics-related news coverage, respectively, most of which was critical, while former Vice President Biden received 20, 25 and 22 per cent, respectively, mainly in a neutral tone. The cable networks were mostly relying on reporting opinions at the expense of balanced coverage. MSNBC, and, albeit to a lesser degree, CNN, portrayed the incumbent President very negatively, and Fox News showed open bias with demeaning vocabulary against former Vice President Biden in some of its evening shows. <
- November 3 – A Weird Election Where The Aftermath May Be More Important Than The Result
- November 4 – Trump Claims Election Fraud, Says He Has Won
- November 5 – Can't Count Votes? Just Draw Straws.
Related:
‘This isn’t over!’: Trump supporters refuse to accept defeat – AP
Gridlock – Biden May or May Not Win, but Trump Remains ‘President’ of Red America – Alastair Crooke / Strategic Culture
> Though the maths and maps suggests Biden will likely reach 270 Electoral votes, the old saying ‘It ain’t over ’till it’s over’, holds true. The electoral vote scenarios in the key ‘swing states’ would only apply if there is no litigation, fraud or theft. However all three are in play – If you are stuffing the ballot box, you first wait to see what the regular vote is, so that you know how many votes you ‘need’ (mathematical anomalies aside) to push your candidate over the top. Trump, somewhat rashly, gave out the GOP vote calculations at 02.30 on Wednesday, and hey-presto, loads of absentee ballots suddenly arrived at certain polling stations at around 04.00. That seems to have happened in Wisconsin, where over 100,000 Biden votes appeared seemingly out of nowhere on a flash drive delivered by hand from a Democratic district. That put Biden ahead in Wisconsin – but litigation is in process. Likewise, it appears that a huge “absentee ballot” dump appeared in Michigan that heavily favored Biden.
This is just the beginning of a new and more uncertain phase that could go on for weeks. <
- November 6 – Progressive Initiatives Win While Dems Continue To Lose
Related:
‘Trump Has Given Us a Gift’: GOP Insiders See Victory in Potential Loss – NY Intelligencer
Republicans solidify grip on state legislatures, which is likely to lead to redistricting and gerrymandering efforts in 2021 – CNBC
Texas Democrats Thought 2020 Would Be a Banner Year. Instead, It Was a Catastrophe. – Texas Observer
Ding-dong, the jerk is gone. But read this before you sing the Hallelujah Chorus – Thomas Frank / Guardian
Will the Democrats Ever Make Sense of This Week? – New Republic
> In sum, if the results we have hold, Joe Biden will win the election and preside over a divided Congress. A chastened and anxious Democratic caucus will continue to hold the House. A triumphant Senate Republican caucus will obviously destroy his major legislative agenda. Biden will assuredly turn to policy by executive action, just as Barack Obama did late in his legislatively stymied administration. When he does, Republicans will do all they can to send those actions to a 6–3 conservative Supreme Court Biden will be unable to pack or meaningfully reform. In defeating Trump, Democrats will have avoided their worst-case scenario. Instead, they will have won the worst possible Biden victory, a political situation that will be a nightmare all its own. <
- November 7 – Regime Change In Washington Paves Way To More Nefarious Policies
Related:
US Murder Machine Now Under Competent Management – Caitlin Johnstone
No Matter the Liberal Metric Chosen, the Bush/Cheney Administration Was Far Worse Than Trump. – Glenn Greenwald
> There is nothing done by the Trump administration that can be rationally characterized as a radical aberration, some dramatic break, from U.S. tradition. Quite the contrary: none of Trump’s actions and policies are in some new universe of savagery, lawlessness, or radicalism when compared to those who preceded him in power. <
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Joseph Dana @ibnezra – 10:06 UTC · Nov 8, 2020
Biden’s acceptance speech in front of a Chase logo pretty much says everything you need to know about the next four years. #USElectionResults2020
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