When Election Day Lasts For A Month
Posted By: RockyTCB, 11/14/2022 4:46:47 AM
On Sunday, five days after “Election Day,” Americans still didn’t know which party will have a majority in the House while two states were waiting to find out who their next governors will be. Even the BBC has been wondering “when will we know who won.” Have the delays been caused by incompetence or malign forces? Surely both, but it’s the latter that has had the biggest impact. Forty-two years ago, on the evening of Nov. 4, 1980, the day of the election, President Jimmy Carter conceded to his Republican challenger Ronald Reagan at 9:50 pm Eastern Standard Time. Eight years later
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Sounds wonderful. Except that prices rose in October by almost 8% year-over-year. That’s four times faster than the Federal Reserve Bank’s 2% target rate. And it marks the 20th consecutive month since inflation has been above the Fed’s target.
It also comes on top of previous record-level price hikes.
When prices started shooting up last year, the White House said it was no big deal because of the “base effect.” They said
When Election Day Lasts For A Month
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Yeah, right. Fox News commentators (yeah, doing it again) in the wee hours of Wednesday morning were struggling to justify salvaging at least a “Red Ripple.”
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You experience what Homer Simpson described as “that sweet couple of seconds before I remember why I’m sleeping on the lawn.”
You feel around and breathe a sigh of relief that you are still indoors, slowly open one eye, see your spouse glaring at you, and it all floods back. You had too much fun last night.
[snip]
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You experience what Homer Simpson described as “that sweet couple of seconds before I remember why I’m sleeping on the lawn.”
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[snip]
And then – in an effort to get yourself completely off the hook for your bad behavior — you write an article for The Atlantic entitled “Let’s Declare a Drunken Party Amnesty.”
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The quality of candidates overall.
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