November 3, 2020: Election Night - The Blogger Needs a Drink

 

11/3/20 (Election Night): No more polling required! Americans trudge to the polls, or the mailbox, as it were.

 

Turnout is reportedly huge.

 

Much to this blogger’s surprise, watching early returns, it appears that Trump might win again. First, he takes Florida with relative ease, the victory not unexpected, but the margin a bit of a shock. Ohio also goes for Trump by an eight-point margin, which makes this Ohioan sad.

 

Even worse, Trump rolls up a big lead in Pennsylvania.

 

(Sound of blogger gagging.)

 

I stay up till 1:30 a.m. looking for signs of hope. Then I turn in, but sleep fitfully for only three hours. At 4:30 a.m. I wake and start checking my phone for news. Frankly, I am appalled to think that so many Americans have seen Trump in action these last four years and still give him their support.

Trump could win again! Holy shit!!!

 

 

FUN FACT – FORNICATION: This fact is not fun for Rev. Irvin Baxter Jr., age 75, who dies today of COVID-19.

 

We wish his family and friends the best, but we bring it up because the good Pastor Baxter said – back a couple of months – that he had a theory. He had read or heard that only 5% of new American brides are virgins, and it got him to “thinking about the sin of fornication.” Baxter thought the coronavirus was a warning from God, a “wake-up call” for all of us to stop having sex before marriage. Now, we hope he will have a chance to ask God if that was true.