Election Update: Biden Poised to Win the Presidency
November 6, 2020
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Joe Biden has had a good night and early morning. He has taken the lead in Georgia and Pennsylvania. He is maintaining his leads in Nevada and Arizona. If he just wins Arizona and Nevada, he is the next President of the United States. If he just wins Pennsylvania, he is the next President of … Read more
Obamacare Survival Hinges on Doctrine of Severability
November 6, 2020
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The Supreme Court is arguing Obamacare for the third time on Tuesday, November 10, in Texas v. California. In 2012, Chief Justice John Roberts initially joined liberals to uphold Obamacare as a tax, rather than an entitlement in National Federation of Independent Business v. Sebelius Roberts spared Obamacare for the second time in 2015, in … Read more
Keep Calm and Carry On… Counting the Votes
November 5, 2020
A tide of inevitability is rolling in. Joe Biden is expressing certitude that he will prevail, with good and ample reasons. Here in Arizona, his margin is holding and is statistically almost certain to hold up through the 350K of so remaining early ballots. But it is unlikely to actually matter in the end. Even … Read more
A Win for Children, Teachers, and Public Schools is Close with the Voter Approval of Proposition 208-Invest in Ed
November 5, 2020
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The journey and quest to help bring Arizona Public Education into the Twenty-First Century is nearing the end of its current chapter. After waiting for a little over two years, the champions for greater funding in Public Education seem to have emerged victorious with the voter approval of Proposition 208-Invest in Ed on November 3, … Read more
Exponential Spread Of COVID-19 Exceeds 100,000 Infections A Day
November 5, 2020
Just before election day Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, the country’s leading infectious-disease expert, delivered a dire warning. ‘A whole lot of hurt’: Fauci warns of covid-19 surge, offers blunt assessment of Trump’s response: President Trump’s repeated assertions the United States is “rounding the turn” on the novel coronavirus have increasingly alarmed the government’s top health experts, who … Read more
Trump’s Post-Election Strategy Is Literally An Episode From HBO’s ‘Veep’
November 5, 2020
I have not seen the HBO series “Veep” (don’t judge), but fans of the show have noticed that the Trump Campaign’s Count Every Vote/Stop the Counting Strategy Was Literally an Episode of Veep (h/t Mediaite): Veep fans are beginning to draw parallels between the hit HBO show and the 2020 presidential election, especially since the … Read more
Thugs Attacking Vote Counting Centers Have No Place in American Society
November 5, 2020
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Thugs, some of them from the “Patriot Movement,” Q’Anon, and Three Percenters, created a stir last night at the Maricopa County Recorder Center, yelling “Fox Sucks,” for calling Arizona for Biden, calling for the people to count ballots that were written in Sharpie (Newsflash: They were and are,) and espousing right-wing conspiracy theories when a … Read more
UPDATE: Biden Holding Lead in Arizona
November 5, 2020
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As of 8:00 a.m. this morning, Joe Biden was maintaining his lead over Donald Trump for Arizona’s 11 Electoral Votes with about a 70,000 margin. The remaining vote counts per county are as follows: Apache: 2,476 Cochise: 12,000 Coconino: 12,998 Gila: 2,350 Graham: 275 Greenlee: 652 La Paz: 880 Maricopa: 282,000 Mohave: 6,503 Navajo: 4300 … Read more
