{"id":44995,"date":"2020-11-04T10:58:21","date_gmt":"2020-11-04T10:58:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=44995"},"modified":"2020-11-04T10:58:21","modified_gmt":"2020-11-04T10:58:21","slug":"is-it-over-yet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=44995","title":{"rendered":"Is it over &#8230; yet?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=MAGA%20%23ElectoralCollege%20%23Biden%20%23Trump&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><em><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/donald.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-44996\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/donald-300x187.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"187\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/donald-300x187.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/donald-1024x638.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/donald-768x479.jpg 768w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/donald.jpg 1123w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>By JOHN KANELIS \/ johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Good morning, world.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>Silly me. It didn&#8217;t happen, at least not this morning.<\/p>\n<p>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 <em>plurality<\/em> doesn&#8217;t put him over the top.<\/p>\n<p>I won&#8217;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.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, I am going to lament a result that isn&#8217;t what I had hoped for or, frankly, expected.<\/p>\n<p>I am not going to despair just yet. Joe Biden can still pick off Wisconsin&#8217;s electoral votes; Michigan might still be within reach, along with Nevada.<\/p>\n<p>Still, I want to remind everyone who might have read my words in a few previous blog posts that I wasn&#8217;t going to declare a Joe Biden election to be a certainty, given Donald Trump&#8217;s hocus pocus victory in 2016.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, it was my hope to awaken this morning to welcome a President-elect Biden.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe tomorrow, or the next day or the day after that. Maybe &#8230;<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=MAGA%20%23ElectoralCollege%20%23Biden%20%23Trump&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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&#8217;t happen, at least not this morning. Joe &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=44995\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Is it over &#8230; yet?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[7225,1424,1551,2505],"class_list":["post-44995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","tag-2020-election","tag-donald-trump","tag-electoral-college","tag-joe-biden"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44995","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44995"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44995\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44997,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44995\/revisions\/44997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}