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November 5, 2024

THIS SEEMS LIKE KIND OF A BIG DEAL:

Posted at 11:13 pm by Stephen Green on Nov 5th, 2024

PROBABLY:

Posted at 10:54 pm by Glenn Reynolds on Nov 5th, 2024

TRUMP TAKES GEORGIA:

Posted at 10:52 pm by Glenn Reynolds on Nov 5th, 2024

I FEEL SO SORRY FOR HER RIGHT NOW:

Posted at 10:49 pm by Glenn Reynolds on Nov 5th, 2024

I WOULD HAVE GOTTEN AWAY WITH IF IF IT HADN’T BEEN FOR THOSE MEDDLING KIDS PODCASTERS:

Posted at 10:47 pm by Glenn Reynolds on Nov 5th, 2024

WAR IS PEACE, FREEDOM IS SLAVERY:

Posted at 10:33 pm by Ed Driscoll on Nov 5th, 2024

NEWS FROM THE BLUE ZONES:

Posted at 10:12 pm by Glenn Reynolds on Nov 5th, 2024

OPEN THREAD: Anything happening today?

Posted at 9:30 pm by Glenn Reynolds on Nov 5th, 2024

NYT’S NEEDLE GOES TO LEANS TRUMP:

We’ll know soon enough.

UPDATE: The needle’s moved considerably in less than an hour:

ANOTHER UPDATE: Half an hour after the last update, things keep evolving:

And if, as seems very possible, Trump wins the popular vote, then the National Popular Vote Compact comes into play, giving him practically all the remaining blue state electoral votes. Watch them try to wriggle out of it if that happens.

MORE: Oh, my. 20 minutes later:

Posted at 9:29 pm by Glenn Reynolds on Nov 5th, 2024

LIVE BLOG: Election Night 2024.

Pour yourself a glass of something nice and join us.

Posted at 9:15 pm by Stephen Green on Nov 5th, 2024

WELL:

Stay tuned.

Posted at 8:30 pm by Glenn Reynolds on Nov 5th, 2024

ANN ALTHOUSE PARSES NPR’S SHADY PRE-ELECTION REPORTING:

“Trump and allies have primed supporters to falsely believe he has no chance of losing.”

That’s the headline at NPR for a piece by political reporter Stephen Fowler.

What does “primed” even mean? It seems to admit that Trump never said he has “no chance of losing,” but he said something that has caused a belief. And then what’s the evidence that Trump supporters believe that? No chance of losing — who believes that? And then to ding these people for “falsely” believing this thing Trump never said… well, the “falsely” ought to be appended to this NPR article: NPR political reporter falsely believes Trump somehow caused his supporters to believe he has no chance of losing. . . .

I’d say it’s not so much that Trump supporters believe he has “no chance of losing.” It’s that they are cranked up into a high state of vigilance, so that if a loss is announced, they will support the challenges and litigation that will follow. I hope that works as a strong deterrence to any cheating, that everything’s conducted on the up and up. And I see no reason to disparage people who are creating pressure to handle the voting process accurately and honestly. I don’t know why Joe Biden did not use his presidency to bring us together by working to make the voting process as transparent and squeaky clean. He knew half (or at least a third) of the country had doubts. Why didn’t he work to dispel those doubts? Did he want all this discord? Was he hiding malfeasance?

Yes.

Posted at 8:17 pm by Glenn Reynolds on Nov 5th, 2024

DAVID HARSANYI: If one election can destroy the republic, it’s already dead.

I’ve hated nearly everything about the 2024 race: The incoherence of the candidates. The arms race in economic pandering. The violence. The nutjobs who’ve wormed their way into positions of influence. The lawfare. The unprecedented corruption and mendacity of the mass media. But there will be another election in two years that will matter very much to millions of people. And another one two years after that. Most of the same people, on experts, will be out there campaigning, raising money, and warning you that the end is near.

Modern elections do not put us out of our misery — they merely degrade our rights and decency in incremental two-year chunks.

And though I have no idea who will win the presidency in 2024, I’m quite comfortable predicting that Democrats won’t be carted off to concentration camps if Harris loses the election. Not one journalist, not even Joe Scarborough, is going to face a firing squad for saying critical things about the president. Indeed, there probably hasn’t been a public figure in America’s history who has faced as much scorn and scrutiny (some of it earned, much of it slander). Never has anyone been censored.

The unhinged, hysterical meltdown of the Left over former President Donald Trump’s candidacy is unparalleled in modern history. Women who walk around cosplaying The Handmaid’s Tale are living in the wealthiest and freest place women have ever known. They will continue to do so, even if Trump finds his way back into the White House for four years. The very notion that “democracy” hinges on the unfettered availability of third-trimester abortions is a kind of corrosive delusion only partisanship can whip up in otherwise rational people. Then again, we already know if Trump wins, every innocuous tax cut will be treated like the Reichstag fire.

And: One Last Whiff of the ‘If Trump Wins’ Psychosis: He Will Ban the Writing of History Books.

More from Harsanyi:

Last night, Oprah Winfrey told women assembled at a rally for Vice President Kamala Harris that if they “don’t show up tomorrow, it is entirely possible that we will not have the opportunity to ever cast a ballot again.” On the same day, Trump booster Elon Musk told Joe Rogan that if “Trump doesn’t win, this is the last election.”

Still though, you can never be too sure…

Posted at 7:45 pm by Ed Driscoll on Nov 5th, 2024

HMM:

Posted at 6:50 pm by Stephen Green on Nov 5th, 2024
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