"Enten" is German for "ducks."
No matter how optimistically we may want to interpret selective data in January, it doesn't have a bearing on what we will hear the day after election day. Soviet dictator Stalin is reputed to have observed: "Those who cast the votes decide nothing. Those who count the votes decide everything." We were shown in no uncertain terms how correct that was after the 2000 election, and again in 2016. Will the Republicans cheat again? Is water wet? What matters is not "if," but what we do to prevent them WHEN they use fraudulent means to flip congressional and gubernatorial seats in close races that we really won, but somehow flipped Republican in "surprise upsets."
I'm sure that the famous closet in Wausau, Wisconsin that produced the necessary "forgotten" ballots that put Republicans over the top in the past is once again filled to the brim. The Diebold vote counting machine that gave Bush 3000 votes in a precinct with 600 registered voters in 2004 is probably still in use in Ohio. Max Cleland found out in Gerogia two years after Al Gore did in Florida in 2000 and two years before John Kerry did in Ohio in 2004. If the USA is so enthralled with its death penalty, maybe it should be applied to treasonous acts like this. Maybe THEN Mr. Ducks will get his utopian Democratic tsunami. Otherwise, I'd count on another battle royal in which not all "surprise upsets" will go our way.
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