This is your pundit DFW reporting from Germany, and THIS is definitely NOT CNN! [View all]

[DFW]

I have been contacted again by West German Radio News to possibly do a repeat of my guest spot as German-speaking Democrat during a live all-night election running commentary during the election (if this goes down like it did 12 years ago, I guess I'm not going to Paris that day after all). It would be from their studios in Köln (Cologne), down the Rhein a bit from Düsseldorf, where I am.

Though the outcome of the voting is not much in question, nor was it so last time, either, and we still got burned. If this comes to pass, it will be a far more sober DFW doing the commentary along with the local newsies and their correspondents beaming in from around the USA. The outcome in 2008 was never in doubt, just the margin of victory. For that matter, the margin of victory in 2016 was impressive, too. The distribution is what threw the election into the disaster classification, and I am still quite convinced that the count was manipulated. I have no problem saying so, but it won't come up. What the Germans are interested in is the future. If Trump gets manipulated back into office, there won't be much of a future to crow about.

As I write, I am certain that there are voting machines being manipulated, state officials being bribed, thugs being armed, and corrupt judges being instructed--and yes, ALL by Republicans. These are hardly things I can say on the radio at the start of the program, but if the results are as phony as they were last time, I will say them anyway. I will be saying them from a continent where 80% of the people agree with me, so I don't have a lot to lose. Karl Rove will not be leading me down the corridor to show me some data he thinks will pull a rodent out of his hat. If they want Pennsylvania again, they'll have to pay for it like they did last time, and their credit worthiness ain't what it used to be. I guess I can't say THAT on the radio, either! It's OK, this is not my first rodeo. My dad was a prominent Washington journalist for 50 years. I know where the lines are drawn.