Election; how I voted & who I think will win

Just got back from casting my ballot. Here's the short version –

I did a write in for President – voted for my friend Theresa B. and also voted for her for state senator. And did the two write ins in the local trustee election here in Croton. See Croton rinky dink politics: "Nobody is forced to live here" for the explanation on local vote.

Who I think will win – I expect after the dust settles we will be calling the president "Madame President."

Here's the long version –

I did a write in because despite voting for Trump in the past two elections and being broadly in favor of his policies while he was in office, he is such a bloviating blowhard – his own worse enemy – and since NY State won't be close in the presidential election I decided to write in Theresa. I have voted for her in the past in several elections, a couple of governor races when Cuomo was running & I couldn't stand the republican opponents.

HOWEVER had my vote been meaningful – if it was the deciding vote for president – Kamala Harris is just appalling. Her main campaign issue is there are not enough abortions in America, She's inarticulate – Without a teleprompter she's an airhead – and I can't imagine her negotiating with China, Russia, North Korea. OMG. It's a shame that the republicans nominated Trump; they had half a dozen candidates who would have united their party and crushed her.  And it's a shame that Harris amen choir said things like this NY Governor Hochul video – "basically anti-American" to vote for Trump and this NY Times editorial: "Harris the only Patriotic Choice for President." Way to unite the country…

Just like in 2022 when the republicans thought they were going to sweep the senate and the house and did not win the senate and barely got the house they are way overconfident about this election. They never learn. Good article: "The Chronically underestimated Kamala Harris".  In national elections the Democratic party machine starts with 40% of the vote; the Republicans only have that kind of blind loyalty from about 29% (Pew poll, 2019).

The silver lining – the Republicans almost a certainly to take the senate which until at least 2026 will stop any of her bizarre social and economic policies coming to fruition. Although as my friend JD points out "what about foreign policy?" And then there's this – the problem of the massive debt we've run up NR – Making America Greece Again: "No Matter who wins We're Fiscally Doomed". Regardless of who wins, we better grow the economy like crazy or we are in for very tough times.

End of homily. We will see. Maybe Trump will eke it or Kamala and the Dems will win everything in a landslide but don't bet the farm on either.

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