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Almost three weeks after election day, President-elect Biden's popular vote lead over President Trump is ~6,000,000 votes.  To put that in perspective, that gap is nearly equivalent to ALL of the votes cast in the following seven states captured by Trump: Oklahoma (1.5M) South Dakota (0.3M) North Dakota (0.3M) Alaska (0.3M) Utah (1.4M) Nebraska (0.9M) Kansas (1.3M)   The above states also total 33 electoral votes.   Now this is an academic exercise, but the margin of victory in votes, states, and electoral votes is significant.   It is a landslide, plain and simple.   Trump’s defenders like to point to his 74Million vote tally as unprecedented for an incumbent.   Yes, it is true, but coming in second in a two-person race is still coming in last.   At the end of the day, the race was not nearly as close as 2016 when Trump claimed a landslide.

You are not imagining this, I have actually returned.  Why, you ask?  We'll save that for a future post.  Like just about about every other American of voting age, nothing else seems to matter except the current election.  I no longer yell at the TV watching the NFL, but last week's presidential debate resulted in closing the windows on a warm October night else the neighbors get alarmed.  There's much at stake this year, and while I am not a man prone to hyperbole, I do believe America is steering into the abyss.  Depending on the outcome, we very well face generational impacts to the American Ideal.   I have spent many hours trying to understand what makes someone support Trump.  Is it financial?  Is it populism?  Is it the rhetoric?  Is it nativism?  Is it anti-globalism?  Is it the bravado?  Is it the Apprentice?  I believe it is a mix of all of the above driven by two emotions:  Fear and Greed.   1) Biden will raise our taxes.  Hate to rain on your parade, but under th