Around this time on the eve of Election Eve four years ago I posted about the competing realities surrounding the perceived state of the race. That post is recreated in its entirety below.

Looking back at that moment, it is chilling to see that the “optimists” were still looking to filter the polling data for “likely voters” as opposed to “registered voters” and clearly not understanding the Progressive playbook with respect to the hopelessly polluted and corrupted state voting rolls and their demonstrated strategies for harvesting ballots whether there were real voters behind them or not.  Certainly, that is still an integral part of their game plan, but one is left only to wonder what twist will be added that, as we sit here just fifty-some odd hours before tradition would tell us that voting should come to an end, we have not a clue is coming.  

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Election 2020: Competing Realities (November 2, 2020)

Just fifty-some odd hours before the last of the polls close and the voting stops…well, not even that is clear in these trying times…we have two very different realities at play for people’s attention. Both are current on my news scanning tabs this afternoon.

The first, from that new competitor for the braindead MSNBC audience:

The second via Instapundit:

HMM: Poll: Donald Trump set to win US presidency by electoral college landslide. “Donald Trump is on course to win four more years in the White House with a one point lead in the popular win, the final Democracy Institute poll for the Sunday Express has found. . . . Significantly, the President has, according to the latest findings, maintained a four point lead of 49 percent to 45 percent in the key swing states including Florida, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. It means he is on course to easily win the electoral college by 326 to 212 votes against his Democrat rival in a result which would shock the world even more than his astonishing defeat of Hilary Clinton in 2016. The Democracy Institute/Sunday Express poll has throughout the campaign been one of the few to predict a Trump victory since March. This is because unlike other polls it only looks at people identifying as likely voters instead of just registered to vote and it has tried to identify the shy Trump vote.”

[emphasis added]

To be fair, the first is consistent with all the headlines beamed to us for months now. The prediction in the second is consistent with every other indication the rational and discerning consumer of American politics would have sensed over the same time period. However, if true, the highlighted text is likely a surprise to everyone…again, if true, such data has been blacked out from everything I have seen to-date. (“Maintained” seems a very odd choice of words.)

The next two days are going to be rather interesting to say the least…and somebody’s reality is going to be shattered.

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Regardless of the events of the coming days, as the Sun comes up Wednesday morning, I fear what I suspect is ahead:

I expect there will be a flurry of activity from across the Executive Branch between November 5 and January 20 no matter who wins in order to do as much as possible under Joe Biden’s name. (Why not soil the legacy of that characterless twit even more…few are as deserving.) Whether it be due to gluttonous joy for free, unfettered progressive loot at no cost to the incoming communist administration or the fearful last grasp at stockpiles of contraband (and placing land mines and hurdles for the incoming Trump team), the leftist hordes will be in the streets.

Just like the thrust toward broader censorship just two days after the events of January 6, expect little time to be wasted…especially if there are (real or bought-and-paid-for) riots to provide the required distractions. We should be numb to the shallow pseudo-event driven news cycles by now…but too many of We the People simply are not. 

Regardless of the outcome (or should I say “the state of the election”) come Wednesday…or Thursday…or Friday, the fact that it can even be presented as “this close” with a straight face leaves me with that old, sick feeling in my stomach:

“[A] significant and growing portion of the American population is losing the virtues required to be functioning members of a free society.” – Charles Murray in Coming Apart (Page 289), 2012

With the accelerator pressed firmly to the floorboard, lurching deeper into the abyss…