Observations two days from an election

 All Saints Day - two days until the election

Two days to go in this election madness and regardless of who wins, by the end of this year, we’ll start seeing people jockeying for the nomination in 2024. 

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When you’re down, fight it

March uphill

Keep marching 

Find what’s wrong and right it.

If they knock you down, get up

Fight it.

Fix what’s wrong and right it.

Just remember that you are part

Of what they call the riff raff 

And of that you should be proud

When you want cry instead just laugh

Cuz you are part of a larger crowd

We outnumber them

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The GOP will try to change the rules of counting votes. Democrats will try to count the votes. On election night, no candidate is awarded electoral votes. That only comes after the votes are tallied and certified by each state. Some states will have all their ballots tallied. Most won’t. Patience will be a virtue more than ever. I keep telling myself that.

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Doctors and nurses DO NOT make any more money on COVID patients than they did before the pandemic. I wish Trump would stop telling that lie. As one health care worker said:

It is true, however, that hospitals do get 2000 bucks. According to researchgate.net, 

“The average cost of an ICU day is estimated at US$10,794.00 for the first day and then plateaus at US$3,968/day by the third day, depending on the need for mechanical ventilation, 25 and surgical floor costs are estimated at US$1,488/ day” 

While the average ICU stay is a 3.3 days, the ICU stay for COVID ranges from 5 to 19 days. Seems that an extra 2000 bucks that hospitals get is cheap.

Halloween - three days until the election.

 

Halloween - three days until the election.

I don't know if the founding fathers thought about Halloween preceding Election Day. Each year, though, it does seem a scarier and scarier idea to think about where the country is headed

Biden is still up in almost all polls, some beyond the margin of error. Most Democrats still remember that Clinton was also up at this point in 2016. She lost. No one is gloating or overly optimistic.

I have no idea who will win and any prediction I make is fruitless. Nate Silverman’s 538 group says it's likely Biden and Democrats controlling both chambers of Congress. 

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The Judiciary Act of 1869 established the current nine seats of the Supreme Court. At the time, the judicial system in the country consisted of nine judicial circuits. Prior to this the number of Supreme Court Justices changed six times, before settling on the current number.

The Evarts Act of 1891 expanded the circuits to twelve. There are currently 13 circuit courts.

In short, over time, the court system has changed and the number of Supreme Court justices has also changed.

Congress has the ability to change how the courts are run and how many judges may be necessary. 

I have no problem with expanding the court to match the number of circuits.

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Cool October air, brisk as the leaves that crunch beneath my feet as I walk the lonely tracks of commuter trains. 

That has absolutely nothing to do with three days before an election. Just wanted to remember the image and sounds I saw this morning.

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My wife is listening to a recording of the Wankmaggot at a recent rally. Other than his usual nonsense and lies, he sounds very tired.