Nov
6
2024

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For better or worse, it appears (as I type) that Trump has won both the Electoral College and the popular vote. Not a lot of people saw that coming.

You won't find either petulance or gloating at Pun Salad today. I didn't care for either of 'em. (I was one of 15 "undervotes" for President/Vice President here in Rollinsford NH.)

But I do detect petulance at the Washington Post; again, as I type, one of their front-page headlines reads:

Becomes second president to win nonconsecutive terms, first felon

"Gee, didn't we mention that felon thing enough during the campaign? Better get it in one more time."

And I also detect some amused gloating from M.D. Kittle at the Federalist, who headlines: 'Ann Selzer’s Wrong!': Pollster Misses Bigly On Trump In Iowa. Ms. Selzer does the polling for the Des Moines Register, and her final poll reported over the weekend had Harris leading 47%-44% in Iowa,

As I type, the WaPo shows Trump ahead in Iowa by 14 percentage points with 95.3% of the votes counted.

Wassup, Ann?

Selzer said she would be “reviewing her data” to figure out why it was “so far out of line with former President Donald Trump’s resounding victory,” the Register reported Tuesday night 

“Tonight, I’m of course thinking about how we got where we are,” Selzer said in a statement, according to the outlet. 

… and maybe she's also thinking about getting out of the polling biz.

At Reason, Elizabeth Nolan Brown seems to have a balanced take: Voters Didn't Reject Women, They Rejected Kamala Harris.

Already, some people are chalking Harris' loss up to sexism, misogyny, and racism.

Surely some voters were motivated by these things, as some people always are. But one needn't imagine a mass hate wave to explain Trump's victory.

In the weeks leading up to the election, candidate Harris struggled to define herself as polls repeatedly showed little daylight between her and Trump. Often, it seemed that Trump's flaws were Harris' main selling point. She was not Trump. But, who was she? Even Harris herself seemed scared to say.

And that's all for today. Almost certainly, more tomorrow.