December 10, 2020 7:24 AM
Morning Reads – Thursday, December 10, 2020
December 10th, for decades, has been a day of firsts. In 1906, President Theodore Roosevelt became the first American to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize (for his role in mediating the Russo-Japanese War). In 1931, Jane Addams was the first woman to receive the Nobel Prize. In 1953, Hugh Hefner published the first Playboy magazine, and in 1958, the first domestic passenger jet flight took place in the U.S. when 111 passengers flew from New York to Miami on a National Airlines Boeing 707.
I wonder what will happen today that we’ll leave in the history books….
Peaches
- Liberal group spending $1M in Georgia Senate runoffs
- Those handwritten letters are garnering international attention.
- Cobb adds two voting sites ahead of runoff elections amid backlash
- Mary Norwood jumping in to help Trump?
- How votes shifted in the six political states of Georgia
- Trump warns Georgia AG not to rally other Republicans against Texas lawsuit
- The Data Analysts Who Believe They’ve Uncovered Widespread Illegal Voting in Georgia
- Why Georgia Runoffs Could Be Bad News For Stocks
- Where Are Georgia’s Senate Candidates Getting All That Cash From?
- Julian Castro focuses on the end goal many of us are hoping for.
Jimmy Carter
- The Florida whistleblower case continues to reveal more bizarre details.
- NY AG predicts Trump will step down to be pardoned by Pence.
- “Is a Constitutional Showdown coming?”
- Gallup: Affordable Care Act Approval Tied for High
- Black bikers see racism in Myrtle Beach traffic plan
- US to pay more than 9,000 nursing homes for controlling coronavirus infections
Sweet Tea
- Google’s top trending search queries for 2020 highlight one of the strangest years of all time
- And now 2020 is coming for the penguins.
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Yesterday West Virginia certified its election results. Trump won the state’s 5 electoral votes. So now all 50 states and DC have certified their results. The electors meet on Monday.
Biden is projected to win 306 electoral votes and Trump is projected to win 232. You need at least 278 to win the election.
It has been a wild ride.
A good column by Jay Bookman:
“The state of Texas has filed a disrespectful, insulting and legally ludicrous lawsuit against the state of Georgia, telling the U.S. Supreme Court that we’re too corrupt and incompetent to be trusted to run our own elections…..
…Let me repeat: In this world, the one that exists, there is no evidence of widespread vote fraud, and Biden is the legally, honestly elected winner of the presidential election. In some other world, some world that does not exist yet somehow is home to tens of millions of our fellow Americans, Trump is the victor. And what we’re testing right now is whether those who choose to live in that other world, in a fantasy world created for them by grifters and charlatans, will be able to bend this world, the real world, to conform to their will.
We are spiraling into insanity, and any hope of reversing course begins right here, with defeating Loeffler and Perdue on Jan. 5. What our senators advocate, what the Texas lawsuit and lawsuits filed by the state and national Republican parties advocate, is the cancellation of the 2020 presidential election to allow Republican legislatures to appoint Trump. They are doing all this because Loeffler, Perdue and others have come to believe that the incentives to behave like crazy people far outweigh any punishment, and for that at least they have substantial evidence.
That has to change; we have to change it.”
https://georgiarecorder.com/2020/12/10/bookman-georgia-senators-in-runoff-sow-distrust-of-state-election-system/
“GEORGIA ELECTION UPDATE: Georgia House Speaker David Ralston says he will ask for legislation for a constitutional amendment for the Secretary of State to be selected by the General Assembly, instead of being elected. Voters would have to approve it.”
Bold move, Cotton. I doubt folks will approve it after going through this election.
https://twitter.com/bluestein/status/1337148266610352134?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1337148266610352134%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=
The most surprising thing about WaPo’s numbers is that donks improved in each of the six political states over their 2016 results, even in red/red North Georgia.
Turnout was 979K more than 2016 (D and R only) and 62 percent of that total went to donks . That has to be partly Trump and partly demography in action. Either way, not good news for gopers.
Sobering note, as if we need reminding.
Deadliest days in the US:
Galveston Hurricane – 8,000
Battle of Antietam – 3,675
Battle of Gettysburg – 3,155
September 11 – 2,977
Last Thursday – 2,861
Last Wednesday – 2,762
Last Tuesday – 2,461
Last Friday – 2,403
Pearl Harbor – 2,403
https://juanitajean.com/most-deadly-days-in-the-united-states/
“Last Friday” possibly included one of my aunts. I say possibly because though she was diagnosed with Covid and was suffering from Covid, she was sent home from the hospital to die after suffering “heart failure”.
And in the face of this pandemic year, piling on with even more stupidity, the Georgia Republican Party is filing a suit to curtail the use of drop boxes for absentee ballots in the upcoming runoff. I thought it made perfect sense this year to use the one, (the only one in Barrow County) in the general election. It was in a well-lit area in front of the election board’s building with a camera system employed and I didn’t have to get breathed on by another human. What is so insidious about using drop boxes in the midst of a pandemic?
Not sure exactly what they’re asking for in the suit, but I think the end result may be the State Elections Board requiring counties to provide camera or in-person oversight for all drop-boxes. That may be a practical deterrent, but I hope not.
Sorry to hear about your family loss.