By JOHN KANELIS / johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com

Good morning, world.

I had hoped to awake to the news of a completed presidential election and the dawning of a new age in Washington, D.C., or perhaps the return to a formerly civil, collegial era in national politics.

Silly me. It didn’t happen, at least not this morning.

Joe Biden and Donald Trump remained locked in a political death match to see who between them gets to 270 electoral votes. Yes, Biden leads the actual vote and has a plurality of Electoral College votes. However, an electoral vote plurality doesn’t put him over the top.

I won’t try to assess how the returns have developed into what we Bidhave at this moment, which is a state of utter confusion and chaos.

Instead, I am going to lament a result that isn’t what I had hoped for or, frankly, expected.

I am not going to despair just yet. Joe Biden can still pick off Wisconsin’s electoral votes; Michigan might still be within reach, along with Nevada.

Still, I want to remind everyone who might have read my words in a few previous blog posts that I wasn’t going to declare a Joe Biden election to be a certainty, given Donald Trump’s hocus pocus victory in 2016.

Yes, it was my hope to awaken this morning to welcome a President-elect Biden.

Maybe tomorrow, or the next day or the day after that. Maybe …