HMM: President Biden Won’t Attend Kamala’s Election Night Watch Party. To be fair, it’s past his bedtime.

WELL:

FLIP ALERT: With an estimated 90% reporting, Trump leads 53% to 46.6% in Baldwin County, GA, a county won by Biden in 2020 by one point.

*** The county's population is roughly 40% African American.

— Election Wizard (@ElectionWiz) November 6, 2024

Stay tuned.

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.

MICROBIOME NEWS: Gut Inflammation Link to Alzheimer’s Disease Confirmed Yet Again. “Animal studies have demonstrated Alzheimer’s can be passed on to young mice through a transfer of gut microbes, confirming a link between the digestive system and the health of the brain.”

SMALLER BUGS TO BITE ‘EM: Scientists Discover Bacteria That Could Help Us Win the Fight Against Mosquitoes.

OH, CANADA: Why Trudeau and Harris face similar troubles with voters.

Related: ‘Gutless’ CEOs Jolted by Attacks From Trudeau’s Surging Rival: Pierre Poilievre is the clear frontrunner to win next election. Conservative intends to tackle feeble business competition

The crowd gathered on the 54th floor of TD Bank Tower, an imposing glass-and-steel edifice in Toronto’s financial district, was a who’s who of the Canadian business elite. There were CEOs and tech moguls and bankers who had paid as much as C$1,725 ($1,240) each for a chance to hear from Pierre Poilievre, the leader of the Conservative Party.

Poilievre isn’t your traditional Conservative leader or, for that matter, your typical Canadian. He’s brash and confrontational, even with his supporters in the C-suite. Weeks before this June fundraiser on Bay Street, he publicly ripped into CEOs in an opinion piece for failing to push back against the environmental policies of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, the man he appears poised to defeat at the polls next year. “Gutless executives,” he’d written.

Corporate types are tools, not opponents, of the Deep State.

WELL, GOOD: High levels of omega-3, omega-6 may protect against cancer.

HMM: Tested! Volvo Makes a $115K Minivan, and It’s Worth Every Penny.

GROWTH SECTOR: October Was the 63rd Consecutive Month With More Than 1 Million Guns Sold.

WELL, THE MURDER HORNETS DIDN’T PAN OUT: Meat-eating terror birds could grow up to 12 feet tall.

I’LL BE ON DANA LOESCH’S SHOW AT THE BOTTOM OF THE HOUR, TALKING ABOUT MY LATEST SUBSTACK ELECTION ESSAY AND MORE.

You can watch here, or listen here.

FUNNY/NOT FUNNY:

D.C. Prepares For 'Party Of Joy' https://t.co/GDnuN3SpbD pic.twitter.com/O2oZi4vzk9

— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) November 4, 2024

A GOVERNMENT PROGRAM THAT DOESN’T WORK? DO TELL. Medicaid funding for addiction treatment hasn’t curbed overdose deaths, study finds.

ANDREW DAVIS: Why I’m Voting for Donald Trump.

THE NEW SPACE RACE: China reveals a new heavy lift rocket that is a clone of SpaceX’s Starship. We’ll see if they can make it work.

HEALTH: Text-messaging program helps parents prevent obesity in young children.

THE U.S. MILITARY EXPECTED WAR WITH JAPAN TO COMMENCE IN 1942. Why does 2027 Keep Coming up About the Chinese Military? The CCP Has Thoughts.

SEGREGATON NOW, SEGREGATION TOMORROW, SEGREGATION FOREVER: ‘Not legal’: Delta Dental excludes whites from med school scholarships.

WELL, OKAY THEN: University of Oregon to offer ‘election week therapy’ featuring dogs, goats, and even ducks.

Plus: University of Michigan department to host ‘art therapy’ and ‘post-election processing’ event.

ELECTION MORNING OPEN THREAD: Enjoy. There’ll be the usual one tonight at the regular time.

ADVICE FROM JON GABRIEL: Go and Vote and Then Forget About Politics: Our long experiment with “the personal is political” has borne poisoned fruit, and civic health requires we abandon it completely.

WAR ON THE CONSTITUTION: Even not voting, migrants give Democrats 14 more electoral votes. “The influx of millions of migrants has shifted political power in the nation to Democrats, even though they are not allowed to vote, according to a new analysis of the Electoral College and constitutional representation. While they may be considered noncitizens, illegal and legal migrants are counted by the census, and those numbers are used to shift congressional districts, which affect electoral votes, according to two new studies from the Center for Immigration Studies.”

SPREADING MISINFORMATION: ‘They’re Targeting Voters Under the Guise of a News Org’: Inside a Soros-Funded ‘Fake News’ Network’s $9 Million Digital Ad Blitz: Courier Newsroom uses its own custom data to reach voters in swing states, Facebook disclosures show.

IF THE CHINESE AND THE IRANIANS START FIGHTING, MOST OF OUR GOVERNMENT WON’T KNOW WHAT TO DO: Another Suspected Iranian Mole Unmasked Inside the Biden Administration.

Given that so much of it seems to be on the payroll of one or the other.

JOHN LUCAS: The “Fundamental Transformation of Our Country” — Gutting Historical Norms of Governance. “Almost every argument that I see Democrats and their allies make against Trump and Vance is a classic case of projection. You could write a book on it and someday someone will.”