...and I asked her quietly
"How FAR can you remember back?"
And she twisted her long hair nervously...freckled face breaking into an eager-to-please smile and answered
"Oh...it has ALWAYS been the election."
Yeah...this is me...today.
"For godsake...just CALL the damned thing!!!!"
The only thing good to possibly come from this four day wait is the Memes it has generated, okay?
And we STILL don't have the election results!
and of course
And at first it was all cute, like, I've waited almost 4 years...I'm certainly not going to bed until the returns are in...and then when 3 in the morning came on the 4th and it was obvious nothing was any closer to a reveal than it was at 5 PM on the 3rd...dropping on the loveseat in the clothes I was wearing for a few hours...then back to the newsfeed...surely by now, right...
Wrong.
Woke up (again) on the 4th...to realize that nobody still knew...soon states were falling...this one red...that one blue...and on and on it went. I had picked up a package of chips, and buns and hogdogs I could nuke on the fly...the leftover Halloween bag of M&M's, Twix, Snickers and such within arms distance.
(...little would I know- this would sustain me for 4 days...)
The 4th would come and go and it was still anybody's election. Once again it was nearly 3 AM...I had had little more than junk food...no bath...was still in Tuesdays attire and collapsed on the sofa.
Thursday, I woke to find the cat saying
"What is that smell...???? And WHY are you still in these clothes??? And when am I going to get something besides nuked hotdog for a treat????"
All good questions.
The COUNT had not budged.
Stuck firmly at 253 and 213.
Took the clothes off...drew a warm bubble bath...and soaked. Tossed on a maxi-tee-shirt dress and then made the mistake of going back to the newsfeed.
OMFG!!!!
Grabbed a dog and some chips and stared in horror as I watched Trump blaming everybody but Santa Claus for his dropping polls...it was fraud...it was the election board's fault...it was the mayor or governors fault...it was a blue state...he was going to sue the states...in states he was winning the cry was COUNT THEM ALL and in states he was losing the cry was STOP THE COUNT!!!
(on my word)
Wrap your brain around that...a sitting POTUS going to sue the states he had previously sworn to protect and defend.
A sitting POTUS trying to stop ballot counting.
Seriously???
And his supporters heard the dog-whistle and soon great clumps of them arrived...angry...chanting...carrying weapons...bullhorns...Don Jr and Alex "Fucking...they're turning the frickin' frogs gay" Jones...threatening to shoot people.
Jesus Wept.
Biden and Harris were calm, unflappable.
I was the opposite of that.
(flapped?)
Dropped that night in a troubled sleep...having consumed another day's worth of complete junk food.
By this time the Sofi Cat was lapping up the remains from the Sour Cream for the chips...but would not touch the bits of hotdogs and went back to her dry food dish, like...
"You have GOT to be KIDDING!!!"
The Mini Snickers Bars were good, though.
Dawn broke...it was FRIDAY the 6th.
Although the numbers were the same 253 Biden to 214 Trump a huge shift had taken place in the States overnight, and number of votes.
Biden held a good lead in 4 of the 6 remaining states.
Better STILL, if Pennsylvania held on its current trajectory we would only need it
(20 electoral votes)
and it would be GAME OVER!!!
We wouldn't even need any of the other five.
Even if we didn't get PA...a combination of two of the other would give us the votes.
In short Trump no longer had a path to 270 without winning all the states left...which was not going to happen...
Finished the hotdogs and buns today...most of the chips and sour cream are also gone...don't even care about the candy, anymore...and here it is...7PM...
And the headlines still scream, in 32 point type,
Biden On The Brink of Winning!!!!!
Yes....it has ALWAYS been the election.
as far back as I can remember.
Maybe Forever.
More Anon...
