Not sure whether Biden can maintain his narrow lead in Arizona and Nevada, and uncertain whether he has enough votes to close the gap in Pennsylvania if needed.
I worked a 13 hour volunteer post at an outside poll observer yesterday at a precinct in Montgomery County (Upper Merion). The district is 50/50, but leans Democrat. The precinct (a Baptist church) had 60-90 minute lines all day long, up until evening. Local official who has worked that voting precinct for 30 years told me that they never have any lines.
[A sidenote: An old guy, likely late 80s, maybe early 90s, wearing a Marine Corps hat, collapsed in line, and fell on his head. I figured he died. But, he came to. 911 was called. I got him a bottle of water. Paramedics checked his vitals, cleaned up his bloody forehead, and cleared him to vote, which he insisted doing. We escorted him to the front of the line of 100+ voters. Everyone clapped. No one knew who he would vote for, but everyone respected his right to vote – the one thing Americans instinctively defend for one another, which is truly a wonderful thing].
I was convinced that heavy turnout meant a nationwide resounding renunciation of Trump. I was wrong. Dead wrong. Trump has turned out more voters than any republican candidate in history. If Biden hangs on, he will sadly not have a mandate to govern.
We have no identity as a nation. America is a split personality. Half the electorate views Trump as the Mad King, an unfit, inept, clear and present danger to America’s values and institutions, yet the other half is enthusiastically willing to double down on four more years. If the electorate affirms Trump as who we are as a nation, my strong view remains that America will be forever diminished, forever compromised.
Yet, as I walked my post yesterday, I saw scores of voters (civil and respectful of one another's franchise) who love America just the same as me, yet they see Trump in a completely different light. Perplexing to me, but the overwhelming turnout for Trump speaks for itself. And to that, I have to tip my hat.
Wishing everyone here all the best.