There’s counting, and then there’s Arizona counting. You start off with a dash of half the election machines in the deepest Republican areas malfunctioning entirely. And then go on to the ones working, failing to read one quarter of the time. You end up with half-a-million votes from Republican areas still uncounted the weekend after the election. And the Democrat running for governor of the State is running the election. Oh Arizona, how art thou?
The voice of Batman has died. Adam West was the daytime Batman of my youth, and Kevin Conroy was the nighttime Batman. He WAS the night, and he will be missed.
Coming into Thursday night and Friday morning, we still don’t know who won in a large number of races, mostly in Arizona, Nevada, and the West Coast. The situation is in flux at the moment. People on the ground say that the polls in Arizona utterly failed. Twenty Five percent failure rate in some of the most predominant Republican voting districts. And we are still waiting for the counts from nearly a million voters from those districts. Florida finished its count within an hour or two of polls closing. Arizona and Nevada think they MIGHT be done early next week. And there is the little historical trend that Long Counts in Democrat controlled voting systems almost always result in Democrat wins. This looks bad. This is not good for our Republic.
We saw a red wave this week. Looking at the numbers, most red candidates received a boost of between 5 and 10 percent votes. We saw MASSIVE wins in Red States, going up and down the tickets. And there were some amazing flips in other States, like how most of New York State when red. But massive Blue State majorities absorbed the larger percentage of red votes for narrow wins in most cases. And the Purple States chose a side, flipping either hard red or hard blue up and down the tickets. Florida and Ohio are hard red now. Pennsylvania and others went hard blue. People have moved in the last couple years, re-entrenching in cultural areas they support, and now are glaring at each other over Red State and Blue State borders. This is not good for our Republic.
Twenty years ago, it was normal to go to bed in Middle America knowing who had won the election. Florida was a massive aberration of that standard that told us the system was in trouble. Twenty years of shifting our voting and counting systems from the old paper ballots that had to be counted by hand and reported by land-line telephones to modern electronic systems that can instantly transmit the results across the web, and this year most people went to bed having no idea who won in a half dozen or maybe a dozen different States. We are worse off in most States today than we were when I was young. That is not good for our Republic.
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