Reaction

Although nothing has been confirmed yet, it seems like Biden has won the Presidency (which is good) but Republicans have retained the Senate (which is bad).  Some thoughts:

- My final prediction was spot on, though I take no comfort from that.

- The people who do the polling in the US should be ashamed of themselves.  For the second election in a row, they were shockingly so far off the mark.

- I had allowed a little bit of pre-election optimism to creep in, which was quickly crushed.  Never again, and never trust the American people.

- I see Trump has already submitted loads of lawsuits to challenge some of the vote counts.  What else would you expect from this thin-skinned asshole - he'll never concede defeat, even when he was legitimately defeated.

- Trump actually got more votes than he did in 2016, which is astounding to me.  I just don't understand the American psyche and how you could vote for him.  The government's lack of response to the pandemic resulting in thousand upon thousands of needless deaths should alone have condemned this government to have been crushed in a landslide.  I just don't get it.

- And the fact that so many Republican senators were re-elected is equally astounding to me.  Despite being vastly outspent, despite the outrageousness of confirming that Supreme Court judge in the week before the election, despite being a truly ghastly bunch of sycophants and weasels.  Unbelievable.  It means that if Biden wins the presidency, his ability to actually make much-needed changes is going to be significantly curtailed.

- In some ways, I guess in this shittiest of shit years that we should be grateful at all that Trump is seemingly going to be defeated - despite everything he's tried to stop that e.g. voter suppression, voter intimidation, Russian influence (which is still undoubtedly a thing), entirely false accusations of corruption and vote rigging, undermining counts, I'm sure a bunch of court challenges to come.

Now we have the joys of watching the results being challenged and dragged out in the courts for weeks and months to come.  Joy.  The day that Trump is not in the headlines will be a very happy one.