Strictly speaking, a coup is an illegitimate change of government by violent means. But what if you can do it without violence? To win without fighting is best, Sun Tzu says. An ostensibly (“mostly”) peaceful ouster from power is preferable to the use of force because it can much more easily be sold as “our democracy” at work. Source: Game-On...

It’s kaput. Joe Biden may very well be anointed the next president of the United States, which makes me want to vomit, but it won’t be by the margins these pollsters doled out for months this year. Source: We’re Finished: Frank Luntz Torches Polling Industry After Getting It Totally Wrong…Again

As the old saw goes, “There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.” As of this writing, the 2020 election outcome for the two candidates hangs in the balance. But whatever happens, the American people now know that the polls were a deception. Source: Election Night Confirmed the Polls Were Lies

UPDATE II: The office of Governor Doug Ducey tells Townhall final vote tallies may not be completed for a number of days. UPDATE: The Arizona Secretary of State is urging caution on the state being called. Source: UPDATE: Secretary of State Urges Caution; It Appears There Was a Major Vote Counting Error in Arizona

The most dangerous time to write an election analysis is when it is too late to predict what will happen, and too soon to know what happened. But we do know a few things already about what happened last night, and they illustrate the big, messy, infuriating diversity of our country. Source: 2020 Election: Welcome to American Democracy | National...

Here we are, the morning after, and we are no closer to knowing the results of the Presidential election than we were before polls closed yesterday. However, what we do know is that a handful of states – including Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, and Michigan – stopped counting mail-in ballots fairly early in the evening on Tuesday night, which is problematic because...

By: The Editorial Board – wsj.com – November 4, 2020 A surge of unexpected votes for Donald Trump has confounded the forecasters—again. Whether it’s enough to carry him to victory in the Electoral College, as it did in 2016, was uncertain at this publication Wednesday morning. But by making the 2020 race close, and perhaps taking it into overtime, Mr. Trump has...

President Trump and Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden laid out sharply diverging closing messages on the eve of Election Day in a last ditch effort to tilt the race in their favor. Source: Trump, Biden offer starkly different closing arguments on eve of election | TheHill

By: Allen West Consider the idiocy of a city in Colorado that is incarcerating people who do not wear a mask. Yet these same leftists claimed that criminals had to be released from incarceration due to the threat of COVID-19. Or consider the idiocy of going into the home of private citizens and confiscating their weapon, their right to keep and...

On the menu today: The op-ed page of the New York Times made the deliberate decision to hoodwink America about the identity of “Anonymous”; the sense of guilt that pervades legacy media — a very apt label; and wondering whether or not we will even see long lines on Election Day with early voting being so massive so far. Source:...