MUSIC: Study: The right song sends your brain into pleasure overload.

SUSAN COLLINS CLAIMS VICTORY IN MAINE SENATE RACE, SARA GIDEON CONCEDES.

UPDATE: Cocaine Mitch smiles:

ROGER SIMON: Election 2020 May Never End.

The Democrats and the Republicans had switched roles.

The Republicans had become the party of the working class. The Democrats were now the party of elites and quasi socialists who rely on identity politics for victory.

Trump, however, had stayed in the race in part by garnering new support from Hispanics and blacks, groups that had perpetually turned their backs on the GOP.

That further meant whatever happens in 2020, the Democrats may have problems ahead because those Hispanics in particular and blacks, to a lesser degree, were indeed starting to leave the fold after decades.

For this the Republican Party has Trump to thank.

But what will they do if Trump finally loses, as now seems quite possible? Will the GOP cast The Donald aside and go back to its brahman past under the leadership of the Never Trumpers? Or would a new generation rise to follow in The Donald’s footsteps?

Or would Trump himself come back to run in 2024? Who would put it past him?

Nevertheless, with all the uncertainty there is some good news most everybody, the majority anyway, should be happy about—so far, nobody’s rioting.

The month is young, alas.

IT’S COME TO THIS:

WELL, THIS IS THE 21ST CENTURY, YOU KNOW: The Pentagon is building a school to teach the force how to defeat drones.

“ABORTION BARBIE” FAILS AGAIN IN TEXAS: Wendy Davis’ Pink Sneakers Didn’t Have Enough Traction.

In other election news from the Lone Star State:

And: Trump Won Heavily Latino Texas Border County He Lost to Clinton by Huge Margin.

MATT MARGOLIS: Is Arizona Back in Play for Trump?

HMM: Depression symptoms linked to increased stroke risk in study.

THAT’S WHY IT’S SO TRICKY:

UPDATE: Related:

A big, beautiful wall. Plus:

And:

UNEXPECTEDLY, MENSHEVIK DEFEATS BOLSHEVIK IN PORTLANDIA: Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler re-elected, beating Antifa-aligned rival Sarah Iannarone.

She of the skirts with images of Stalin, Mao and Che:

Perhaps it was providence: Priests Conduct Exorcisms in Portland and San Francisco to Ward Off Dark Forces of Antifa.

Related: From America’s Newspaper of Record: Sodom, Gomorrah Wondering Why America Hasn’t Been Obliterated Yet.

HMM: Voter Fraud in Wisconsin – Massive Dump of Over 100,000 Ballots for Biden All the Sudden Appear Overnight.

HMM:

SPENGLER: The Good News Is That Biden Is Screwed, Even if He Wins.

UPDATE (From Ed):

SMALL SIGNS OF SANITY IN THE FORMER GOLDEN STATE: California Voters Reject Economically-Illiterate ‘Rent Control’ Ballot Measure.

And: Prop 16 Seems to be Failing. “Prop 16 is the left’s attempt to repeal California’s ban on racial and other forms of discrimination by the State. Prop 16 is losing.”

UPDATE: Good News for Conservatives from . . . California? GOP candidates may have gotten killed in the Golden State last night, but conservative ideas carried the day in a handful of crucial ballot initiatives.

MORE: Californians Reject Legalized Discrimination at the Ballot Box—Despite Silicon Valley Cash Blitz.

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HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Dartmouth College student op-ed: Cancel ‘racist’ Dr. Seuss.

TWO-POINT-ZERO: Lindsey Graham Rakes Pollsters, Liberal Donors, Over the Coals in Fiery Victory Speech.

NEWS YOU CAN USE: A University of Virginia instructor said that Americans need to “actively topple the government” if the “worst-case scenario” happens.

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ROGER KIMBALL: Extraordinary delusions and the madness of crowds, New York Times edition.

And now that we are embarked on the 2020 presidential election, the Times took to Twitter to tell the world who announces the winner of the election. Why, it is the Times and its sister leftwing organs!

Yes, that’s right, there it was in white and black on Twitter. ‘The role of declaring the winner of a presidential election in the US falls to the news media,’ it said. ‘The broadcast networks and cable news outlets [which ones, do you suppose? Fox? OAN? Breitbart?] have vowed to be prudent. Here’s how it will work.’ There follows a link.

Some upstanding citizens took a screenshot of this hilarious specimen of hubristic overreach, because if you look for it now what you see is ‘This tweet has been deleted.’

As well it should have been. The unfounded arrogance of the tweet is one for the history books.

It’s all of a piece, of course, with Hillary Clinton’s advice to Joe Biden not, under any circumstances, to concede tonight. It’s also of a piece with the attorney general of Pennsylvania’s assurance that Donald Trump cannot win Pennsylvania. (How does he know?)

How, indeed?

TIME TO MAN UP, AMERICANS: What Sarah said at 3:20 am, especially her last five lines.

TIME TO WRITE HONEST HISTORY THAT EXPOSES THE DISHONEST NEWS: India’s Malabar 2020 Naval Exercise Indicates Trump Administration’s Direct Challenge To China Improved Indo-Pacific Security.

Perhaps in five years, an honest historian will publish an honest history assessing the positive diplomatic effects of President Donald Trump’s administration’s decision to challenge the Chinese Communist Party dictatorship’s pervasive spying, economic trickery and utter disregard of international law.

More:

I think the concrete U.S. response has had a powerful moral effect in Indo-Pacific nations that felt vulnerable and victimized by Beijing’s one-on-one (bilateral) economic and military bullying. Big China versus a Small Neighbor was the CCP’s preferred fight.

The Indian Navy’s Malabar 2020 exercise, which began this week in the Indian Ocean, is a telling example of a major shift in India’s public attitude toward China.

Check it out.