COUNT FASTER

At some point I switched from going to bed at 1am to going to bed at 10pm (generally) and I am not looking forward to having to stay up very late.

Yes I know the polls haven't closed yet, except in Guam I guess.

Pete's Warfighters

They don't like him much.

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth had a similar approval rating. Roughly 45% of respondents said they approved of him, while 50% said they disapproved.

The kid of a friend is in the military, and while I don't think this person's opinion (hates Pete) is anything but anecdote, I do get the sense that hating Pete is a perfectly normal thing to do. It isn't an opinion people feel they have to hide.

Matt Drudge No Longer Rules Our World

I was thinking about how, in the old days, election day activities for liberal bloggers would including monitoring Drudge to see what nonsense he was trying to feed to cable news. Things like BROKEN VOTING MACHINE IN WHITE GEORGIA PRECINT or SCARY BLACK MEN SEEN AT POLLS. 

Back then, everything would jump right from Drudge to cable news. He was their assignment editor.

Back then, Drudge was a conservative warrior.

He is no longer that. It seems he hates Trump as much as any normie lib does.

Journalists no longer pay any attention to Drudge.

My "This Is Not Anti-Muslim" T-Shirt Has People Asking A Lot Of Questions

Coates (read the whole thing):

When Michigan congresswoman Haley Stevens endorsed Republican Mike Rogers yesterday, she offered a curious framing. “I’m choosing country over hate,” Stevens claimed. “This is not anti-Muslim at all.”

 

Morning

What time is the superbowl on?

Mark The End Of The Trump Era

The Maine Women

Once upon a time Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins were both senators from Maine. I'm not going to give Snowe much credit, either, but she was occasionally the moderate that Collins has long pretended to be, while Collins has only ever been a moderate when she was sure her vote wouldn't matter.

Collins has always benefitted from compliant journalists portraying her as she wishes to be portrayed.  I am not going to place any bets against her tomorrow, but her losing would be satisfying!

Hopium

I don't know how good Larry's crystal ball prediction ever is, but there it is.

HOUSE: 239 at least Leans Democratic, 196 at least Leans Republican (D+24)

SENATE: 53 at least Leans Democratic, 47 at least Leans Republican (D+6)

GOVERNORS: 28 at least Leans Democratic, 22 at least Leans Republican (D+4)

The D Senate seat flips are:   Maine, Ohio, North Carolina, Kansas, Texas, Alaska. No R flips.

Journalism

The final chapter was fun, but we shouldn't forget that there was precisely zero reason for the deep thoughts of Haley Stevens to be top stories on CNN and NYT for days.

Stevens was never a prominent Democrat. She was not an incumbent senator. She was a backbench member of Congress who lost a primary and such people are usually forgotten immediately.

She was only a story because many journalists are as Islamophobic as she is and were happy to platform her to get their own digs in.

Shooting The Dead

Important to understand everybody relevant in politics and journalism knew she was like this and yet somehow never said anything.

Sure Why Not

There a few buildings left standing in Gaza and the missiles are in them.

IDF officials assess that Hamas currently possesses hundreds of rockets, aided by smuggling from Israel. The developments come amid a diplomatic stalemate in Gaza, with officials saying Trump has lost interest in resolving the situation

Better safe than sorry! 

Please Don't Let Me Hit The Ground

I won't claim I don't eye the polls, but I have detached myself from the emotional rollercoaster of them. As the election is tomorrow, here's some hopium.

Democrats Show Strength in Final Days of Race for the Senate, New Polls Find

Democrats are up in Michigan, Texas, Kansas, Maine and Ohio, have an edge in Alaska and are effectively tied with Republicans in Iowa, new New York Times/Siena polls found.

Morning

Almost Tuesday!

Welp

McMorrow's husband.

Was notable that she dropped out seemingly under pressure to benefit Stevens, but then did not endorse her.

Afternoon

Haley Stevens has joined the Connecticut for Lieberman Party.

Go Over To The Dark Side

Haley Stevens is at a Mike Rogers event, at a church.

It is very very funny.

...top of the page news at both CNN and the NYT. 

...Detroit News reporter:

...Semafor reporter:

On Their Own

I don't know if this is good or bad, by design or incompetence, but it does seem that, more than I can remember from past elections, Dem midterm candidates are out there doing their own things without some sort of unifying party message.

Just a mild observation, not a criticism of anything.

Morning

Sunday funday. 10K race for me.

Saturday Evening

The beatings will continue until everyone loves the world's first good genocide.

LIVE UPDATE

More rebel scum: Haley's campaign spokesperson.

Though the rebels should beware of her, as she did work for Palantir.