Kamala v Trump

I’m posting this on the eve of the U.S. election, November 4th. Even though we won’t likely know the outcome of the election until a week or so afterward, given how close the polling has been for weeks now, it feels right to put this up now, like the Chicago Tribune making their infamous headline flub in 1948.

By Byron H. Rollins - "A presidential election history lesson: Americans often waited days or weeks for the outcome", The Washington Post, November 4, 2020Originally distributed by the Associated Press and published in numerous newspapers on November 5, 1948., Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=121758373
In this Nov. 4, 1948, file photo, President Harry S. Truman at St. Louis’ Union Station holds up an election day edition of the Chicago Daily Tribune, which – based on early results – mistakenly announced “Dewey Defeats Truman.” (AP Photo/Byron Rollins)

I’m hoping for similar pollster mistakes this time, that there might just be a “silent” electorate that speaks their loud political selves on election day. I’m hoping that America vigorously denies a fascist 1Note the words of John Kelly and others in Trump’s own former cabinet the reigns of power.

We’ll see, America.

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