vdare--2020-11-06--Election Results, The Counting Mess, And "The People Who Matter", Etc.

04m20s Counting the votes .
( More approximate than usual . )
08m21s Bring on the math geeks !
( @ @ @ @ @ 's Law ? )
12m09s The people who matter .
( It 's gentry progressives @ @ @ @ @ ) 21m56s How to fix the vote-counting mess .
( If you want to .
@ @ @ @ @ .
( Desperate but not serious . )
35m53s Celebrity murder of the week .
@ @ @ @ @ Tsar . )

00m53s Election results. (Probabilities and possibilities.)
04m20s Counting the votes. (More approximate than usual.)
08m21s Bring on the math geeks! (Do vote counts follow Benford's Law?)
12m09s The people who matter. (It's gentry progressives all the way down.)
21m56s How to fix the vote-counting mess. (If you want to.)
26m57s The Viennese spirit. (Desperate but not serious.)
32m19s Sean Connery, RIP. (The Boomers' Bond.)
33m32s Bond movie No. 27. (With a black female 007.)
35m53s Celebrity murder of the week. (Death of the Sausage Tsar.)
37m22s Signoff. (With bells.)
01 — Intro. And Radio Derb is on the air! Greetings, listeners. That was one of Haydn's Derbyshire Marches and this is your analytically genial host John Derbyshire with some thoughts on the news.
Not much doubt what this week's main news item has been, and still is as I go to tape. Yes, we've been having elections. How did they work out? What did we learn from them?
Here are some observations.
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02 — Election results. As I come to the mike here early Friday evening, the most probable results of Tuesday's elections are:
Joe Biden wins the Presidency;
The Republican Party continues to hold the Senate, by a whisker;
Democrats continue to hold the House of Representatives, but with a reduced majority.
There are scenarios where things might turn out differently, but those are the ways to bet — and the ways people are in fact betting.
Where those scenarios are concerned, taking those three results in turn:
Trump's people have launched legal challenges to the vote-counting process all over. Possibly one or more of them will be successful, leading to recounts. Possibly-possibly one or more of those recounts will turn a state total around. Possibly-possibly-possibly that will swing the count of national Electoral College votes from blue to red.
The wild card for the Senate is Georgia. Georgians are voting for two senators; and the state's voting laws mandate a runoff election if a candidate gets less than fifty percent of the vote. In one of those two races, nobody got close to fifty percent, so there'll definitely be a runoff. In the other, Republican Senator David Perdue was looking good to beat the fifty percent threshold at midweek, but now his numbers have dipped below it and he'll likely face a runoff too. These runoffs are scheduled for January 5th.
There's a Senate race in North Carolina under different rules — no runoff — with the GOP incumbent running a very thin lead over a strong Democrat challenger. Still waiting for a final result there.
Bottom line: The Senate could still flip blue, though the odds are modestly against it.
House of Representatives: Stays blue, though not quite as blue as before.
There are moving targets there, of course. When you're listening to this, twelve hours or more after I'm recording it, some of the uncertainties will have been resolved. So I shall just step back here and pass some general remarks on the election.
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03 — Counting the votes. My strongest impression from watching the progress of the election, Tuesday through Friday, is what an almighty mess the actual process of gathering and tallying votes is.
It's not just a mess, in fact; it's "messes" plural, because of the Constitutional requirements that state legislatures set the rules. That was never going to yield a tidy process, and we Tenth Amendment fans, wary of too much centralized, standardized federal power, tolerate the untidiness.
The nationwide adoption of mail-in voting this year, supposedly on account of the Covid pandemic making people reluctant to vote in person, amped up the messiness, along of course with the opportunities for hanky-panky in the vote counting.
There has always been a certain amount of shenanigans in vote counting, and I think American voters at large understand that the vote numbers you see are approximate to a degree, especially in the big old boss-ruled urban centers of corruption: Chicago, Philadelphia, Boston, Milwaukee, and so on.
Watching the news this week, the name of Clark County, Nevada kept turning up as a little hot-spot of uncounted votes. Excuse my ignorance, but I couldn't figure why some dusty fly-blown county out there in the Western desert was making controversy. I looked up Clark County. It's the home of Las Vegas. Oh, right …
This approximate quality of the numbers doesn't matter when one party is plainly dominant over another, least of all when there's a nationwide landslide. When the election's close, though, as it is this year; when control of the entire federal power apparatus — executive, legislature, and (indirectly) judiciary — is at stake, it matters a lot.
How much jiggery-pokery has there been this time around? More than usual, for sure. Those mail-in ballots are an irresistible target for vote-harvesters. Fake ballots — you can just photocopy them — partisan post-office employees, co-operation from nursing-home staff … There are a dozen ways to do it.
That's all on top of more traditional methods like voting from the grave and impersonation. Do you know about impersonation? Names of registered voters who never bother to vote are publicly available. Just show up at the polling place declaring yourself to be one of those names.
So yes, the numbers here are more crooked than usual. Is there a way to quantify how crooked they are? Maybe …
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04 — Bring on the math geeks! Math geeks have been having fun with Benford's Law. You can read up Benford's Law on Wikipedia. Here's a very short account.
Consider a big list of numbers identifying something in the real world. Wikipedia offers, quote, "electricity bills, street addresses, stock prices, house prices, population numbers, death rates, lengths of rivers, and physical and mathematical constants." End quote.
OK, you're looking at your list of house prices (say). How often is the lead-off digit in a price — the leftmost digit — how often is it a 1? Well, since it can be any one of nine digits, and there seems no reason why any digit should be favored over any other, that lead digit will be a 1 one-ninth of the time, which is to say, 11.1 percent of the time. Right?
Wrong! Benford's Law tells us that digit will be a 1 more than thirty percent of the time. At the other end, it'll be a 9 less than five percent of the time.
I know: It's weirdly counterintuitive. Math can be like that. It's a real law, though, with solid theoretical explanations supporting it.
Most to the point here, it offers a way to look at a big list of numbers and see if it is, so to speak, normal. Does it obey Benford's Law? If it doesn't, there might be a good reason; but you'd want to know the reason. You'd particularly want to know if the reason was, that someone just made up the numbers, or cranked them out of a computer random-number generator.
The computer-programming website Github.com has been running the numbers for vote counts by precinct in select cities and counties. You can view results over there: Go to Github.com and search for "2020 Benford's."
The ones I've seen so far are suggestive but not, I'd say, conclusive. The biggest departures from Benford's Law show up in the Joe Biden vote counts for … uh-oh, Milwaukee and … double-uh-oh, Chicago.
Dispositive? No. Worth investigating? Definitely, if anyone's keen to do so.
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05 — The people who matter. Is anyone keen to do so? Short answer: No-one that really matters.
All the commanding heights of political power and influence in the U.S.A. today are held by gentry progressives. The corporations, the universities, the media, the churches, the courts, the politicians — including plenty of Republicans: Hey, there, Paul Ryan! Hey there, Mitt Romney! — even the military: Where power and influence are concerned, it's gentry progressives all the way down.
Permit me to re-quote the old friend I quoted two weeks ago. Re-quote:
On the side of the Democrats are: The FBI, the CIA, the federal bureaucracy, academia, Facebook, Twitter, Google, Hollywood, NBC, CBS, ABC, CNN, NPR, the NYT, every magazine on the shelf, BLM, Antifa, 50 million illegal aliens, and now, the Chinese Communist Party.
If they can't steal an election with that group of supporters, what does it say about their general level of competence?
End quote.
Well, of course they can steal an election, and very likely stole this one.
The reason they can is, they are by definition the people who really matter. Collectively, they have the power, and all its external trappings — mainly, luxury beliefs. Quote from Rob Henderson in the New York Post last year, quote:
In the past, upper-class Americans used to display their social status with luxury goods. Today, they do it with luxury beliefs.
End quote.
If you don't share those luxury beliefs, you're not upper-class and you don't matter. You're one of those deplorable people, probably keen on guns and churchgoing.
And if it looks as though you, or your faction, is going to win an important election, then the people who matter have every right — the right of class privilege, droit du seigneur … well, perhaps not that particular right … every other right to preserve the existing order by making a few phone calls, calling in a few favors, pulling a few levers, handing over a few thick brown envelopes.
You think I'm being too cynical? Well, maybe: but I'm in some very good company. Here for example is Roger Kimball, writing at American Greatness yesterday, Thursday.
If you don't know the name, Roger Kimball is editor and publisher of The New Criterion, a monthly journal of high culture with a conservative editorial line. I have written a lot of stuff for The New Criterion, and have even written about the magazine.
Full disclosure: I'm personally acquainted with Roger. I admire him immensely, as one of the most erudite and prodigiously well-read people I know, and also one of the most good-natured. I don't think of him as being political in a partisan way. He's written a shelf-full of books, but none so far as I know dealing with retail politics. His most common topic is our culture, the ocean we dwell in, not particular sharks, molluscs, or schools of dolphins.
In this American Greatness piece, though, Roger doesn't hold back. Why didn't Joe Biden do some actual, you know, campaigning? asks Roger. His answer, quote:
Biden didn't really campaign because he — or at least his handlers — knew the fix was in.
End quote.
Biden didn't bother to campaign, Roger implies, because he knew that the people who matter would take care of things.
That includes of course the media. Further quote:
That most of the media was all-in for Biden was also clear during the election itself. Fox News notoriously acted as a cheerleader for Biden. They refused to call Florida for Trump for hours after it was clear that he had won it. They then ceded Arizona to Biden, though it was by no means clear that he had prevailed there and some voters were still in line at the polls. Fox eventually walked back its call (sort of), but only after the damage to Trump's momentum had been clocked.
End quote.
I stress again that this is not some hired party hack writing there. It's a thoughtful, independent-minded, witty, and convivial gent of great learning. Roger Kimball is nobody's hired man, and nobody's fool.
That early Fox News call of Arizona for Biden has particularly angered Trump supporters. The scuttlebutt is, it mightily angered Trump himself. Reporter Joel Mathis, writing at The Week yesterday, actually quoting a different source at Vanity Fair, tells us that both Trump and his son-in-law Jared called Rupert Murdoch to demand Fox retract the Arizona call, but Murdoch refused.
Edited quote from Joel Mathis, quote:
Murdoch — through Fox News — makes and breaks Republican politicians. They serve his interests, not the other way around …
What Murdoch gives, though, he can take away. And there have been signs that he is ready to be done with Trump, reportedly telling friends over the last few weeks the president would lose the election in a landslide. That hasn't turned out to be true, of course, but it probably hints at why Fox has been a less-than-stalwart ally to the president in recent days. Trump needs Fox News more than Fox News needs Trump.
End quote.
Rupert Murdoch is definitely one of the people who matter.
Wait a minute, though, I hear you cry. All this stuff about the people who matter: doesn't the President of the United States matter rather a lot? Cabinet appointments, judicial appointments, executive orders, the nuclear football? Isn't that power?
Sure it is, but it's concentrated in that one guy, and depends for lasting results on his abilities, his understanding of what he's dealing with.
To return to my oceanic analogy: A modern cruise ship has lots of power — twenty or thirty thousand horsepower. The ocean has its own swells and currents, though, its own deeps and shallows; and the master of that cruise liner needs skill and foresight to navigate them. Absent those abilities, the tens of thousands of horsepower are useless, and the master is a person who doesn't matter.
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06 — How to fix the vote-counting mess. OK, so vote counting is an almighty mess. Can it be fixed?
Yes it can. In some states it has been. Texas, a huge state spanning two time zones, had election results within hours. So did Florida, the third most populous state after California and Texas. Georgia, with half Florida's population, is still uncertain late on Friday.
Yes, I'm still a Tenth Amendment fan. Different election laws in different states? I'm fine with it. I do find myself wondering, though, if there isn't a case for some minimal federal requirements on voting procedures. A really good strict audit of the vote counts would surely help. So of course would stricter voter-ID laws.
There you see the problem, though. Voter ID laws are such an obvious thing, it's amazing they're not universal. How many times have you heard: "I have to show ID to get into a government office or even a hotel. Why don't I have to show ID when I go to vote?"
So why don't you? The official reason brought out by politicians when the issue comes up is that voter-ID laws are racist. See, it's easy enough for bourgeois white types like John Derbyshire to get ID. For poor ol' shoeless black Joe, however, down in his tarpaper shack on the banks of the Yazoo, it's impossible — impossible, I tell you! It would take us back to Jim Crow!
That's nonsense, of course. It only works because of our national neurosis about race. Conjuring up that image of shoeless black Joe shuts down all debate — even now, today, when you need to be approaching retirement age to remember Jim Crow laws, and shoeless black Joe has a degree in post-colonial studies and a job as Human Resources Director for Microsoft.
But why do politicians — mostly Democrats — keep making that appeal? Discarding the possibility that they believe what they're saying, the only other possibility is, they don't like voter ID laws because they get in the way of vote-rigging. Anything else that got in the way — federal requirements for strict auditing of the vote counts, for instance — would likewise be voted down in Congress.
Looking forward, we could reduce the human element in the vote-counting business very considerably, perhaps altogether, via technology. Modern automated data management, backed by Artificial Intelligence, could fix all the problems.
Leaving aside that our gentry-progressive elites don't want the problems fixed, remember that high up in their ranks, gazing down god-like at all that transpires, are the billionaire bosses of our software and social-media companies. You want a technological solution? They'll be glad to oblige — oh, very glad.
So yes, the messiness and the opportunities for chicanery it offers, they could be fixed with some modest federal legislation and/or some up-to-date technology. Nothing will get fixed, though, because the people who matter like things the way they are. They have an opinion about how elections should turn out, and they want to be able to turn that opinion into reality.
The messier things are, the happier our ruling class is.
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07 — The Viennese spirit. That's enough on the elections. I'm pretty much electioned out. So are the TV commentators I've been watching, to judge from their increasingly wild-eyed look, minor temper tantrums, and spreading patches of dead air. Poor devils! — It's not a job I could do.
So, enough election coverage. Let's have some foreign news.
Here's a quote from myself, from back in my days as a National Review columnist. Longish quote:
[Inner quote.] "In Berlin the situation is serious but not desperate; in Vienna, the situation is desperate but not serious." [End inner quote.] This quip was heard around Central Europe in the closing days of both world wars, but certainly predates 1918 … The point of the quip is to show the different outlooks of Prussians and Austrians: the first soldiering on to the end in dogged hope, the second in fatalistic acknowledgment that while the curtain may indeed be about to fall, there is no point forgoing life's normal pleasures in the interim.
End quote.
That came back to mind when I was reading about the terrorist attack last Monday in Vienna. A crazy Islamist, 20-year-old Kujtim Fejzulai, strolled around downtown Vienna shooting people at random with an M70 assault rifle until his walkabout was terminated with extreme prejudice by police. He killed four people and wounded more than twenty.
The gunman's itinerary on that shooting spree passed close by the Vienna State Opera, where a performance of Cavalleria Rusticana was under way. Officials, patrons, and performers at the opera house could hear the gunfire outside. Management made an announcement to the audience that everyone should stay inside for safety.
That done, they continued with the performance — their last performance before a state-mandated coronavirus lockdown.
When the opera was over, management was still not sure of the situation outside; so to keep people in their seats they put on an impromptu performance of one of Franz Joseph Haydn's string quartets — not, alas, one of the Derbyshire Marches.
A spokeswoman for the opera house told CNN that, quote:
The audience was very calm, nobody panicked … The quartet was not arranged. They played it very spontaneously, there were not many people in the hall. They played a quartet by Joseph Haydn, one of the greatest composers of our country.
End quote.
I am very glad to know that the old Viennese spirit is still alive and well, and that the perception of a situation as "desperate but not serious" is still current in that beautiful city.
A footnote here. That gunman, Kujtim Fejzulai, was European, not Middle Eastern. He came from the Albanian minority of North Macedonia. That's a country, North Macedonia, just north of Greece, one of the pieces that Yugoslavia broke up into after the Cold War. It was just called Macedonia until recently; then, after years of bickering with Greece, which considers the name "Macedonia" to belong to one of their regions, the two countries agreed on "North Macedonia."
The place is one-third Muslim. Not all Europe's issues with Islam are imported.
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08 — Miscellany. And now, our closing miscellany of brief items.
Imprimis: We lost Sean Connery last weekend, aged ninety.
Not in any way to belittle his other acting achievements, or the efforts of Roger Moore, Pierce Brosnan, Daniel Craig, et al., to us late Silents and early Boomers Connery was James Bond, and no-one else was or ever will be.
Everyone has his favorite Bondism. I may as well record mine. This is an exchange between Connery and Jill St John in Diamonds are For Ever. She's changed her hair color since he last saw her, and he remarks on the fact.
[Clip:
He: I tend to notice little things like that, whether a girl's a blonde or a brunette.
She: And which do you prefer?
He: Oh, providing the collars and cuffs match …]
Bond, pure Bond.
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Item: I lost interest in Bond movies a couple of decades ago, but they're still making 'em. So far there have been 26, according to Wikipedia, with Number 27 due this coming April, title No Time to Die.
The lead role in this latest movie is played by Lashana Lynch, a British-born black actress of Jamaican parentage. No, she's not James Bond in the movie; she's only Agent 007, that designation having passed on to her somehow from Bond. Her movie name is Nomi.
Hey, I don't see why not. If, in the storyline, Bond has retired or been killed off, there's no reason his agent number shouldn't go to a black girl, although I think it would have been classier of MI5 just to retire the number along with the man, the way they do with the shirt numbers of star baseball players.
My reaction to this casting news was in fact a cynical smile at the thought that some dimwit Hollywood producer thought it would be bold, edgy, and daring to cast a black lady in the role. The point our culture is at now, it would be bold, edgy, and daring to go on casting white guys.
Shall I be watching No Time to Die? Nah — no offense to Ms Lynch, to whom I wish all the luck in the world. It's just that, as I've said, I lost the Bond thing altogether back in the Clinton administration.
Although, if they were to cast Zhang Ziyi as Agent 007, I might change my mind …
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Item: Celebrity murder of the week took place at a country house outside Moscow. The victim was Vladimir Marugov, tagged in all the headlines as "Russia's Sausage King," except in one or two of the more culturally punctilious outlets, where he is the "Sausage Tsar." He was thus tagged because he made his fortune from ownership of sausage factories, sausage being one of the five staple food groups in Russia.
Mr Marugov was in a sauna with his girlfriend when he was killed. He seems to have had some dealings with organized crime, and had gotten on the wrong side of the mobsters somehow — a seriously bad idea in Russia.
They came looking for him, tied up him and his girlfriend, demanded cash, shot him with a crossbow, and tortured him for an hour. The girlfriend escaped through a window and called police, but Mr Marugov had lost too much blood and died.
Rest in peace, Sausage Tsar.
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09 — Signoff. That's it, ladies and gents. Thank you for listening, and I'm sorry not to have better news to bring you.
After all the election-season Sturm und Drang I figure we need something soothing to play us out. On a name association with the phrase "soothing music," the first composer that comes up — after Haydn, I mean: I've already given you some Haydn — is Albert Ketèlby.
There's a grave accent over that second "e" in "Ketèlby," which always led me to assume he was from one of the East European countries, perhaps the same one that Vienna terrorist was from. In fact he was perfectly English — from the West Midlands, like my mother's people; the grave accent was just an affectation.
Here's one of Ketèlby's soothingest: Bells Across the Meadows.
There will be more from Radio Derb next week.
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[Music clip: Ketèlby, "Bells Across the Meadows."]


vdare--2020-11-06--Did Failing to Appeal to Non-College Educated Whites in Key Swing States Cost Trump the Election?

In a multiracial society , democracy is nothing more than a racial headcount .
And it appears President Trump and the Republican Party failed to tap into this indisputable fact by not reaching out to non-college educated white voters in Pennsylvania , Michigan , and especially Wisconsin .
In the end , ranting about the low unemployment rate for blacks and promising a $ 500 billion Platinum Plan exclusive for blacks wasn ’ t something exactly speaking to these voiceless , beleaguered racial group .
Instead of showing up to vote on November 3… they stayed home .
Their collective @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the aftermath of the 2016 election , analysts on both the left and right noticed that President Trump had the potential to grow his base of white working-class voters .
Five Thirty-Eight ’ s David Wasserman noted that over 44 million non-college-educated white voters who were not even registered to vote before the 2016 election concentrated heavily in the Midwest , including 2.6 million in Pennsylvania , 2.2 million in Ohio , 900,000 in Wisconsin , and 500,000 in Iowa .
All the Trump campaign needed to do was locate them and register @ @ @ @ @ @ @ would be smooth sailing till election day .
Rather than employing a strategy that looked to find the missing white working-class voter , the Trump campaign devised a plan to drive support from minority voters .
They released both the Platinum Plan for black Americans and the American Dream plan for Hispanic Americans , promising hundreds of billion dollars to revive their communities and a series of other identity-driven policies .
This was successful to a point .
The Hispanic turnout in Florida and Texas were large enough to deliver Trump a much @ @ @ @ @ @ @ helped keep Arizona and Nevada competitive even as he shed voters in the suburbs and among Independents as well as college-educated whites .
Among black voters , exit polls showed Trump received 19 percent of the black voters between 25 and 44 years-old .
However , he didn ’ t budge the number of older black Americas who make up a majority of voters in their racial group .
That plan was always doomed to fail due to the small share of minority voters in the Midwest that were up for grabs .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ or black Americans willing to flip to the GOP in those states .
So they relied on their pool of existing voters and resting their fate on a ground game .
To the Trump campaign and the Wisconsin Republican Party ’ s credit , they ran a fantastic operation in the state .
The President ’ s campaign increased his support and turnout in 22 of the 23 counties he flipped from President Obama in 2016 .
Even more astonishing , only two of those counties had turnout under 90 percent .
Some @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Pepin had close to 95 percent turnout .
In the county of Kenosha , which saw race riots and acts of violence from Black Lives Matter supporters and members of Antifa , Trump increased his margin from .3 percent in 2016 to 3.2 percent in 2020 , becoming the first Republican to win the county in back-to-back elections since 1928 .
The ground game and high level of support from working-class white counties couldn ’ t make up because the missing white vote stayed missing .
In the 23 Obama-Trump counties , the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 8,000 voters from January 2017 to November 2020 even though the population increased in these areas .
So Trump ’ s campaign had to work harder with a smaller group of people .
Most of the non-college-educated white Wisconsinites that didn ’ t vote in 2016 remained untapped in 2020 .
For over three years , the campaign spent hundreds of millions of dollars chasing phantom voters in deep blue states like New Mexico rather than looking at their natural base sitting underneath their nose .
Had those funds been redirected to registering @ @ @ @ @ @ @ percent of those non-college-educated white voters they missed in 2016 , they wouldn ’ t have to worry about suburbanites defecting to Biden .
Fears of voters fraud or illegal vote count wouldn ’ t have been a concern if they just reached out to their natural constituency .

In a multiracial society, democracy is nothing more than a racial headcount. And it appears President Trump and the Republican Party failed to tap into this indisputable fact by not reaching out to non-college educated white voters in Pennsylvania, Michigan, and especially Wisconsin.
In the end, ranting about the low unemployment rate for blacks and promising a $500 billion Platinum Plan exclusive for blacks wasn’t something exactly speaking to these voiceless, beleaguered racial group. Instead of showing up to vote on November 3… they stayed home. Their collective vote wasn’t courted.
In the aftermath of the 2016 election, analysts on both the left and right noticed that President Trump had the potential to grow his base of white working-class voters. Five Thirty-Eight’s David Wasserman noted that over 44 million non-college-educated white voters who were not even registered to vote before the 2016 election concentrated heavily in the Midwest, including 2.6 million in Pennsylvania, 2.2 million in Ohio, 900,000 in Wisconsin, and 500,000 in Iowa. All the Trump campaign needed to do was locate them and register a fraction of them, and it would be smooth sailing till election day.
Rather than employing a strategy that looked to find the missing white working-class voter, the Trump campaign devised a plan to drive support from minority voters. They released both the Platinum Plan for black Americans and the American Dream plan for Hispanic Americans, promising hundreds of billion dollars to revive their communities and a series of other identity-driven policies.
This was successful to a point. The Hispanic turnout in Florida and Texas were large enough to deliver Trump a much larger victory than most people expected and helped keep Arizona and Nevada competitive even as he shed voters in the suburbs and among Independents as well as college-educated whites. Among black voters, exit polls showed Trump received 19 percent of the black voters between 25 and 44 years-old. However, he didn’t budge the number of older black Americas who make up a majority of voters in their racial group.
That plan was always doomed to fail due to the small share of minority voters in the Midwest that were up for grabs. There weren’t enough Hispanic voters or black Americans willing to flip to the GOP in those states. So they relied on their pool of existing voters and resting their fate on a ground game.
To the Trump campaign and the Wisconsin Republican Party’s credit, they ran a fantastic operation in the state. The President’s campaign increased his support and turnout in 22 of the 23 counties he flipped from President Obama in 2016. Even more astonishing, only two of those counties had turnout under 90 percent. Some counties like Price, Marquette, and Pepin had close to 95 percent turnout.
In the county of Kenosha, which saw race riots and acts of violence from Black Lives Matter supporters and members of Antifa, Trump increased his margin from .3 percent in 2016 to 3.2 percent in 2020, becoming the first Republican to win the county in back-to-back elections since 1928.
The ground game and high level of support from working-class white counties couldn’t make up because the missing white vote stayed missing. In the 23 Obama-Trump counties, the number of registered voters declined by nearly 8,000 voters from January 2017 to November 2020 even though the population increased in these areas.
So Trump’s campaign had to work harder with a smaller group of people. Most of the non-college-educated white Wisconsinites that didn’t vote in 2016 remained untapped in 2020. For over three years, the campaign spent hundreds of millions of dollars chasing phantom voters in deep blue states like New Mexico rather than looking at their natural base sitting underneath their nose.
Had those funds been redirected to registering and turning out between five and ten percent of those non-college-educated white voters they missed in 2016, they wouldn’t have to worry about suburbanites defecting to Biden. Fears of voters fraud or illegal vote count wouldn’t have been a concern if they just reached out to their natural constituency.


vdare--2020-11-06--Color Revolution Against Trump Is The Story Of The Century, But MSM Aren't Covering It, They're Comm

Color Revolution Against Trump Is The Story Of The Century, But MSM Aren't Covering It, They're Committing It

We are witnessing the very Color Revolution that was set in motion months before the inauguration of President Donald Trump .
We are witnessing a brazen , blatant coup attempt , the open theft of the Presidency of the United States of America .
Just as President Trump appeared poised to seize another victory from the demonic maw of the Deep State , the counting simply ceased , with no explanations .
After hours of silence , hundreds of thousands of votes in six states were “ discovered , ” one hundred percent of which were cast for “ Joe @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Reports of widespread fraud have poured in from every single one of these states , and more .
Perhaps having a Third World population does in fact mean that we must endure Third World “ elections.
” If this were occurring in a foreign country , the American media would already be speaking of a rigged election , and the neocons would have already started to gin up support for arming the “ moderate rebels.
” The corrupt media , including the superciliously credulous Fox News , varyingly dismiss or suppress the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ very well be the most widespread electoral fraud in American history .
Many of the cocktail “ conservatives ” on the Fox staff refer to President Trump ’ s observations as “ unfounded claims.
” Newt Gingrich , however , provided a moment of clarity : the burden of proof is not on Us to prove fraud , but rather on Them to prove honesty .
When federal election law is violated as it has been , when voting observers are physically blocked and otherwise prevented from watching votes being tallied , when @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ballots to all registered voters with no systems of authentication in place , the burden of proof shifts from Us to Them .
And if they can not prove that the integrity of our mythical “ democracy ” was not breached , then , as Gingrich has suggested , all of the votes from the offending precincts must be tossed out .
As Biden promises a primetime address tonight , the hour is late .
It is only a matter of time before the international media begin to report that the transfer of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Trump is “ refusing to leave office.
” Does it make sense now why every “ journalist ” for the past four years has spent hours of airtime speculating on that very scenario ?
The Biden campaign has already begun referring to the President as a “ trespasser ” in the White House .
Retired Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson , one of the ghouls who brought us the Iraq War and a member of the extremely ominous “ Transition Integrity Project , ” recently fantasized about the military massacring Trump supporters in the streets @ @ @ @ @ @ @ happen ; for now , events are in the driver ’ s seat .
One thing is clear , though : the hour fast approaches when the patriots of America must stand .
We will soon be presented with an opportunity to show that we are not the emasculated , diversity-whipped cattle that “ our ” ruling class so clearly believes we are .
Will the seventy million red-blooded Americans who voted for Donald Trump lay down and allow our nation to be stolen from us ?
As the great Pat Buchanan put @ @ @ @ @ @ @ gentle into that good night ?
” With every breath I take , I pray that the answer is no , that this will be the moment we look back upon as the genesis of a true American renaissance .
Which way , American man ?

We are witnessing the very Color Revolution that was set in motion months before the inauguration of President Donald Trump. We are witnessing a brazen, blatant coup attempt, the open theft of the Presidency of the United States of America. Just as President Trump appeared poised to seize another victory from the demonic maw of the Deep State, the counting simply ceased, with no explanations. After hours of silence, hundreds of thousands of votes in six states were “discovered,” one hundred percent of which were cast for “Joe Biden.” This is a statistical impossibility.
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Reports of widespread fraud have poured in from every single one of these states, and more. Perhaps having a Third World population does in fact mean that we must endure Third World “elections.” If this were occurring in a foreign country, the American media would already be speaking of a rigged election, and the neocons would have already started to gin up support for arming the “moderate rebels.”
The corrupt media, including the superciliously credulous Fox News, varyingly dismiss or suppress the story of the century: what may very well be the most widespread electoral fraud in American history. Many of the cocktail “conservatives” on the Fox staff refer to President Trump’s observations as “unfounded claims.” Newt Gingrich, however, provided a moment of clarity: the burden of proof is not on Us to prove fraud, but rather on Them to prove honesty. When federal election law is violated as it has been, when voting observers are physically blocked and otherwise prevented from watching votes being tallied, when cities run by black Democrat machines mailed ballots to all registered voters with no systems of authentication in place, the burden of proof shifts from Us to Them. And if they cannot prove that the integrity of our mythical “democracy” was not breached, then, as Gingrich has suggested, all of the votes from the offending precincts must be tossed out.
As Biden promises a primetime address tonight, the hour is late. It is only a matter of time before the international media begin to report that the transfer of power has failed, and that President Trump is “refusing to leave office.” Does it make sense now why every “journalist” for the past four years has spent hours of airtime speculating on that very scenario? The Biden campaign has already begun referring to the President as a “trespasser” in the White House. Retired Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson, one of the ghouls who brought us the Iraq War and a member of the extremely ominous “Transition Integrity Project,” recently fantasized about the military massacring Trump supporters in the streets. Only time will tell what will happen; for now, events are in the driver’s seat.
One thing is clear, though: the hour fast approaches when the patriots of America must stand. We will soon be presented with an opportunity to show that we are not the emasculated, diversity-whipped cattle that “our” ruling class so clearly believes we are. Will the seventy million red-blooded Americans who voted for Donald Trump lay down and allow our nation to be stolen from us? As the great Pat Buchanan put it, “Will Middle America go gentle into that good night?” With every breath I take, I pray that the answer is no, that this will be the moment we look back upon as the genesis of a true American renaissance. Which way, American man?


vdare--2020-11-06--Racial, Gender, And Sexual Orientation Distributions Of Trump And Biden Voters

Nothing particularly shocking , though taken on the whole they are a bit of a Narrative buster .
A majority @ @ @ @ @ and a not insignificant one-in-five Trump voters are non-white .
Trump ’ s support is @ @ @ @ @ women .
LGBT representation in Biden ’ s coalition is only twice what it is @ @ @ @ @ Consequently , these distributions are unlikely to be talked about much in the corporate media @

Nothing particularly shocking, though taken on the whole they are a bit of a Narrative buster. A majority of Biden voters are white and a not insignificant one-in-five Trump voters are non-white. Trump’s support is split evenly among men and women. LGBT representation in Biden’s coalition is only twice what it is in Trump’s.
Consequently, these distributions are unlikely to be talked about much in the corporate media:


vdare--2020-11-06--Math Geeks, Benford's Law, And Crooked Voting Numbers In Milwaukee And Chicago.

Yes , the voting numbers in this election are more crooked than usual .
Is there a way to quantify how crooked they are ?
Math geeks have been having fun with Benford 's Law .
You can read up Benford 's Law on Wikipedia .
Here 's a very short account .
Consider a big list of numbers identifying something in the real world .
Wikipedia offers , quote , `` electricity bills , street addresses , stock prices , house prices , population numbers , death rates , lengths of rivers , and physical and mathematical constants .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ your list of house prices ( say ) .
How often is the lead-off digit in a price—the leftmost digit—how often is it a 1 ?
Well , since it can be any one of nine digits , and there seems no reason why any digit should be favored over any other , that lead digit will be a 1 one-ninth of the time , which is to say , 11.1 percent of the time .
Right ?
Wrong !
Benford 's Law tells us that digit will be a 1 more than @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the other end , it 'll be a 9 less than five percent of the time .
The distribution of first digits , according to Benford 's law .
Each bar represents a digit , and the height of the bar is the percentage of numbers that start with that digit .
I know : It 's weirdly counterintuitive .
Math can be like that .
It 's a real law , though , with solid theoretical explanations supporting it .
Most to the point here , it offers a way to look @ @ @ @ @ @ @ see if it is , so to speak , normal .
Does it obey Benford 's Law ?
If it does n't , there might be a good reason ; but you 'd want to know the reason .
You 'd particularly want to know if the reason was , that someone just made up the numbers , or cranked them out of a computer random-number generator .
The computer-programming website Github.com has been running the numbers for vote counts by precinct in select cities and counties .
You can view results over @ @ @ @ @ @ @ for `` 2020 Benford 's . ''
The ones I 've seen so far are suggestive but not , I 'd say , conclusive .
The biggest departures from Benford 's Law show up in the Joe Biden vote counts for … uh-oh , Milwaukee and … double-uh-oh , Chicago .
Dispositive ?
No .
Worth investigating ?
Definitely , if anyone 's keen to do so .

Yes, the voting numbers in this election are more crooked than usual. Is there a way to quantify how crooked they are?
Math geeks have been having fun with Benford's Law. You can read up Benford's Law on Wikipedia. Here's a very short account.
Consider a big list of numbers identifying something in the real world. Wikipedia offers, quote, "electricity bills, street addresses, stock prices, house prices, population numbers, death rates, lengths of rivers, and physical and mathematical constants."
OK, you're looking at your list of house prices (say). How often is the lead-off digit in a price—the leftmost digit—how often is it a 1? Well, since it can be any one of nine digits, and there seems no reason why any digit should be favored over any other, that lead digit will be a 1 one-ninth of the time, which is to say, 11.1 percent of the time. Right?
Wrong! Benford's Law tells us that digit will be a 1 more than thirty percent of the time. At the other end, it'll be a 9 less than five percent of the time.
The distribution of first digits, according to Benford's law. Each bar represents a digit, and the height of the bar is the percentage of numbers that start with that digit.
I know: It's weirdly counterintuitive. Math can be like that. It's a real law, though, with solid theoretical explanations supporting it.
Most to the point here, it offers a way to look at a big list of numbers and see if it is, so to speak, normal. Does it obey Benford's Law? If it doesn't, there might be a good reason; but you'd want to know the reason. You'd particularly want to know if the reason was, that someone just made up the numbers, or cranked them out of a computer random-number generator.
The computer-programming website Github.com has been running the numbers for vote counts by precinct in select cities and counties. You can view results over there: Go to Github.com and search for "2020 Benford's."
The ones I've seen so far are suggestive but not, I'd say, conclusive. The biggest departures from Benford's Law show up in the Joe Biden vote counts for … uh-oh, Milwaukee and … double-uh-oh, Chicago.
Dispositive? No. Worth investigating? Definitely, if anyone's keen to do so.


vdare--2020-11-06--Self-Defense Shooting At Black "Gentleman's Club" In Houston: Were Both Parties Black?

What might have been a black-style mass shooting was averted by the armed security guard at a Houston strip club .
Security guard shoots and kills man , injures another in Paradise City Gentleman 's Club confrontation , by Courtney Fischer , ABC13.com , November 6 , 2020 HOUSTON , Texas ( KTRK ) -- A security guard shot and killed a man overnight after a confrontation at a southeast Houston club , police say .
The confrontation began at Paradise City Gentleman 's Club off I-45 near Fuqua around 2 a.m. Friday .
Police say the man killed was @ @ @ @ @ @ @ coming into the club with a gun .
According to Houston police , the man initially came in with two friends , got into some kind of argument , left the club , and then came back with a pistol .
Officers say he confronted one of the security guards , and the guard fired .
A second man was also shot , and he 's expected to survive .
[ More ] I read the whole article , watched the video , and there 's no word of what color the attacker @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the attacker 's companion , who was grazed in the arm .
What you need to know about the Paradise City Gentleman 's Club in Houston is that it has a largely black clientele , as shown by these pictures from their gallery : The strippers are of all colors , literally , since many of both white and black strippers are heavily tattooed .
However , we have to assume that this security guard was a black person , since a young black man being shot by a white security guard while @ @ @ @ @ @ @ would obviously be the second coming of Emmett Till .
But the point is that ABC Houston never said , and never asked .

What might have been a black-style mass shooting was averted by the armed security guard at a Houston strip club.
Security guard shoots and kills man, injures another in Paradise City Gentleman's Club confrontation, by Courtney Fischer, ABC13.com, November 6, 2020 HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- A security guard shot and killed a man overnight after a confrontation at a southeast Houston club, police say.
The confrontation began at Paradise City Gentleman's Club off I-45 near Fuqua around 2 a.m. Friday. Police say the man killed was shot by the club security guard after coming into the club with a gun.
According to Houston police, the man initially came in with two friends, got into some kind of argument, left the club, and then came back with a pistol.
Officers say he confronted one of the security guards, and the guard fired. A second man was also shot, and he's expected to survive.[More]
I read the whole article, watched the video, and there's no word of what color the attacker was, the guard was, or the attacker's companion, who was grazed in the arm. What you need to know about the Paradise City Gentleman's Club in Houston is that it has a largely black clientele, as shown by these pictures from their gallery:
The strippers are of all colors, literally, since many of both white and black strippers are heavily tattooed.
However, we have to assume that this security guard was a black person, since a young black man being shot by a white security guard while trying to get into a strip club would obviously be the second coming of Emmett Till. But the point is that ABC Houston never said, and never asked.


vdare--2020-11-06--How Much Will The Democrats Spend On Two Senate Runoffs In Georgia?

The Democrats had a disappointing evening on Tuesday .
But since then , with the last votes to be counted trending Democratic ( as they so often do ) , they can still see their dreams of controlling the White House and both houses of Congress come true .
There were two Senate races in Georgia on Tuesday .
It now looks like in neither race will anybody get 50.0 % , so there will be runoffs on January 5 , 2021 .
If the Democrats win both , they will have 50 Senators , and if Kamala Harris is @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
How much money are Democrats going to spend if there are two runoffs in Georgia ?
Until the Trump Era , liberals complained frequently about campaign spending as being anti-democratic and biased toward Republican corporate interests .
From 2010 through 2016 , the New York Times ran an average of a couple of articles per week complaining about the Supreme Court ’ s 2010 Citizens United decision freeing up campaign spending .
But then in 2017 , it dawned on the Times that Hillary had spent twice as much as Trump , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ good thing .
[ Methodological notes : I searched on “ ‘ Citizens United ’ campaign ” for the first 10 months of each year at NYTimes.com . ]
This year , progressives exulted over huge expenditures on Senate and House races , with the Democrats spending $ 6.9 billion , about twice that of the GOP .
In South Carolina , Democratic challenger Jaime Harrison raised $ 109 million as of October 14 versus Lindsey Graham ’ s $ 74 million , decisively smashing Beto O ’ Rourke ’ s old record @ @ @ @ @ @ @ going to pour into Georgia to save their 2020 and give them unchecked power ?
A quarter of a billion ?

The Democrats had a disappointing evening on Tuesday. But since then, with the last votes to be counted trending Democratic (as they so often do), they can still see their dreams of controlling the White House and both houses of Congress come true.
There were two Senate races in Georgia on Tuesday. It now looks like in neither race will anybody get 50.0%, so there will be runoffs on January 5, 2021. If the Democrats win both, they will have 50 Senators, and if Kamala Harris is VP, she would be the tie-breaker.
How much money are Democrats going to spend if there are two runoffs in Georgia?
Until the Trump Era, liberals complained frequently about campaign spending as being anti-democratic and biased toward Republican corporate interests. From 2010 through 2016, the New York Times ran an average of a couple of articles per week complaining about the Supreme Court’s 2010 Citizens United decision freeing up campaign spending. But then in 2017, it dawned on the Times that Hillary had spent twice as much as Trump, so now unchecked campaign spending was a good thing.
[Methodological notes: I searched on “‘Citizens United’ campaign” for the first 10 months of each year at NYTimes.com.]
This year, progressives exulted over huge expenditures on Senate and House races, with the Democrats spending $6.9 billion, about twice that of the GOP. In South Carolina, Democratic challenger Jaime Harrison raised $109 million as of October 14 versus Lindsey Graham’s $74 million, decisively smashing Beto O’Rourke’s old record.
So how much are the Democrats going to pour into Georgia to save their 2020 and give them unchecked power? A quarter of a billion?


vdare--2020-11-06--Vote Fraud Never Happens (Except Where It Does)

In answer to your question about why the cities were taking so long to come in ?
This is a long tradition in machine-controlled cities .
The inner city areas , especially in poor neighborhoods always come in last .
I remember covering the 1989 NYC Mayor ’ s race when Dinkins barely beat Rudy .
Giuliani was ahead the entire night , but you could see the massive shift when Harlem came in around midnight .
Raymond Jones of Tammany Hall ( the Willie Brown of his day ) used to call that “ gleaning the harvest.
” Back @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 1960s ) , Mayor Daley would hold back the “ River Wards ” to see what the Republican total outside Chicago and how many he needed to overcome it .
The Teddy White story you tell is spot-on — with one detail missing : in Doris Kearns ’ book about the Kennedys , she reports ( as did Len O ’ Connor in his book on Chicago ) , that Daley deliberately withheld a few dozen precincts from “ the River Wards ” while reporting to the press that all of Chicago ’ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ward had submitted some returns , but not 100 % of precincts ) .
When the Downstate Republicans in the wee small hours of the morning turned in their final numbers , Daley then entered the “ River Ward ” votes .
( See Kearns , page 805 ) .
And the rest is history….. BTW , the rough tactics we are seeing are no doubt in response to the hardball played by Bush ( both brothers ) and Rove in FLA 20 years .
The polls closed in Tampa ( with a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in line .
They were legally entitled to vote and Jeb “ shut it down ” in the approving words of Paul Gigot in the Wall Street Journal .
So , once again , we see how costly Rove was to the Republican Party…… Another friend tells me that the Chicago tradition is not to steal votes retail ( i.e.
, a person voting as himself then coming back and voting as his dead grandfather ) but wholesale .
After voting closes , precinct workers call in the number of registered voters who @ @ @ @ @ @ @ get the word back about how many more votes are needed .
If the big guys can stall on reporting long enough until the other side has laid their cards on the table , many times you don ’ t need to invent any votes because you ’ ve won honestly .
They don ’ t do it every election , just in close ones where a smidgen of additional votes are needed .
Sometimes they get carried away and try to close too big of a gap to pass the laugh test @ @ @ @ @ @ @ election when Adlai Stevenson III was about 10 points behind in the polls .
They almost pulled that one off until an overlooked load of Republican leaning ballots was discovered in DuPage County a few days after counting began .
But when they get over ambitious , like in 1982 , guys can get convictions on their records .
They might have gotten away with 1982 , but Stevenson was a naive aristocrat who demanded a recount , which just exposed a lot of dirty laundry .
Adept vote concoction is a traditional @ @ @ @ @ @ @ with a Catholic political heritage from roughly Boston in the east to maybe Kansas City in the west .
You ’ ll notice that in Arizona , the late vote count has mostly been favoring Trump .

A friend writes:
In answer to your question about why the cities were taking so long to come in? This is a long tradition in machine-controlled cities. The inner city areas, especially in poor neighborhoods always come in last. I remember covering the 1989 NYC Mayor’s race when Dinkins barely beat Rudy. Giuliani was ahead the entire night, but you could see the massive shift when Harlem came in around midnight. Raymond Jones of Tammany Hall (the Willie Brown of his day) used to call that “gleaning the harvest.” Back when they were machine-controlled (like the 1960s), Mayor Daley would hold back the “River Wards” to see what the Republican total outside Chicago and how many he needed to overcome it. The Teddy White story you tell is spot-on — with one detail missing: in Doris Kearns’ book about the Kennedys, she reports (as did Len O’Connor in his book on Chicago), that Daley deliberately withheld a few dozen precincts from “the River Wards” while reporting to the press that all of Chicago’s wards had reported. (Every ward had submitted some returns, but not 100% of precincts). When the Downstate Republicans in the wee small hours of the morning turned in their final numbers, Daley then entered the “River Ward” votes. (See Kearns, page 805). And the rest is history….. BTW, the rough tactics we are seeing are no doubt in response to the hardball played by Bush (both brothers) and Rove in FLA 20 years. The polls closed in Tampa (with a substantially Black population) with voters still in line. They were legally entitled to vote and Jeb “shut it down” in the approving words of Paul Gigot in the Wall Street Journal. So, once again, we see how costly Rove was to the Republican Party……
Another friend tells me that the Chicago tradition is not to steal votes retail (i.e., a person voting as himself then coming back and voting as his dead grandfather) but wholesale.
From the Chicago Tribune on March 8, 1987 reporting on the previous month's Democratic primary mayoral election in which Harold Washington defeated Jane Byrne in the midst of an estimated 100,000 fraudulent votes:https://t.co/niQzFVQQfx pic.twitter.com/BmpjPlnvwa — Steve Sailer (@Steve_Sailer) November 6, 2020
After voting closes, precinct workers call in the number of registered voters who didn’t show up, and get the word back about how many more votes are needed.
If the big guys can stall on reporting long enough until the other side has laid their cards on the table, many times you don’t need to invent any votes because you’ve won honestly.
They don’t do it every election, just in close ones where a smidgen of additional votes are needed. Sometimes they get carried away and try to close too big of a gap to pass the laugh test, as in the 1982 Illinois gubernatorial election when Adlai Stevenson III was about 10 points behind in the polls. They almost pulled that one off until an overlooked load of Republican leaning ballots was discovered in DuPage County a few days after counting began.
But when they get over ambitious, like in 1982, guys can get convictions on their records. They might have gotten away with 1982, but Stevenson was a naive aristocrat who demanded a recount, which just exposed a lot of dirty laundry.
Adept vote concoction is a traditional folk art practiced mostly in big cities with a Catholic political heritage from roughly Boston in the east to maybe Kansas City in the west. You’ll notice that in Arizona, the late vote count has mostly been favoring Trump.
[Comment at Unz.com]


vdare--2020-11-06--Not From The Babylon Bee: Scientists Aghast As Hopes For Landslide Biden Election Victory Vanish

But from the science journal Nature : With so many votes cast for Trump in US election , some researchers conclude that they must work harder to communicate the importance of facts , science and truth .
As the possibility of a land-slide victory for US presidential candidate Joe Biden vanished in the wee hours of 4 November , some scientists saw the deadlocked election as a sign of their own failure to communicate the importance of science , evidence and truth to the general population .
“ This election is not going to be a decisive national categorical repudiation @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the presidency , ” says James Lindley Wilson , a political scientist who studies elections and democracy at the University of Chicago .
Many researchers supported Biden because of his science-friendly policies — in particular his plans to bring the coronavirus under control and to mitigate climate change — and have recoiled from Republican President Donald Trump ’ s blatant disregard for evidence and truth during his time in office .
For some researchers , the fact that the election has come down to the wire is evidence that scientists simply aren ’ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Whatever happens , says Naomi Oreskes , a science historian at Harvard University in Cambridge , Massachusetts , “ we have a lot of work ahead of us ” .

But from the science journal Nature:
Scientists aghast as hopes for landslide Biden election victory vanish
04 NOVEMBER 2020
With so many votes cast for Trump in US election, some researchers conclude that they must work harder to communicate the importance of facts, science and truth.
by Jeff Tollefson
As the possibility of a land-slide victory for US presidential candidate Joe Biden vanished in the wee hours of 4 November, some scientists saw the deadlocked election as a sign of their own failure to communicate the importance of science, evidence and truth to the general population.
“This election is not going to be a decisive national categorical repudiation of Trump, regardless of who wins the presidency,” says James Lindley Wilson, a political scientist who studies elections and democracy at the University of Chicago.
Many researchers supported Biden because of his science-friendly policies — in particular his plans to bring the coronavirus under control and to mitigate climate change — and have recoiled from Republican President Donald Trump’s blatant disregard for evidence and truth during his time in office.
For some researchers, the fact that the election has come down to the wire is evidence that scientists simply aren’t connecting with the general population. Whatever happens, says Naomi Oreskes, a science historian at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, “we have a lot of work ahead of us”.


vdare--2020-11-06--A Guide To What A Biden/ Black Party Victory Will Mean For America

If President Donald Trump “ loses ” the 2020 election , it will be two critical reasons : 1 ) white men did not support Donald Trump by the same margins as in 2016 , ( though we may need better data on this ) [ How voters shifted during four years of Trump , by Zachary Wolf , Curt Merrill , and Daniel Wolfe , CNN , November 4 , 2020 ] ; 2 ) political machines in cities like Philadelphia , Detroit , Atlanta , and other heavily black cities harvested enough votes for Joe Biden , Jared @ @ @ @ @ @ @ notwithstanding .
The Democratic Party has become the Black Party .
To understand the implications , it ’ s important to read A Dissident ’ s Guide To Blacks And Africa .
is a compilation edited by American Renaissance founder Jared Taylor which explores the behavior of Africans , and , to borrow Malcolm X ’ s phrase , Africans who happen to be in America .
It also explains the creation of the racial narratives about “ white guilt ” and “ white privilege ” which now guide government policy in what @ @ @ @ @ @ @ s sole superpower .
It is a warning that must be taken seriously to ensure the survival of this country , its historic identity , and what few liberties are left to us .
Editor Jared Taylor shows us that “ Woke ” politics is not some recent invention .
The black Communist W.E.B .
Du Bois and his “ bitterness ” provided some of the slogans you ’ ll hear on any college campus today .
“ He once wrote that Western Civilization was `` built on black and brown and yellow @ @ @ @ @ @ @ whether the “ yellows ” are still welcome in the Coalition of the Fringes is an open question ) .
Du Bois also wrote a ditty that simply consisted of variations of the words “ I hate them ” and a wish for divine power so he could end the white race .
Du Bois , Taylor writes , is not now remembered for his support for Stalinism or Imperial Japan but “ for establishing the racial orthodoxy of white culpability.
” Several essays show that blacks truly think differently than whites .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ may be impossible when many Africans seem incapable of grasping abstract concepts .
• Gedaliah Braun , who taught in several African universities , notes that many blacks not only can ’ t grasp abstractions like moral codes , but even the need to plan for the future ( a concept some Africans don ’ t even have a word for ) .
Thomas Jackson ’ s “ A Portrait of the African Mind ” provides similar insights , noting that Africans possess a superstitious “ credulity of a nature entirely different from @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in which white people sometimes dabble.
” The African “ soul ” is “ to us disturbingly alien.
” • Roger Devlin provides an account of lynchings and murders of “ witches ” in Africa , combined with stories about ritualistic murders of albinos for magical purposes that could have been penned by H.P .
Lovecraft .
• George Holiday , who taught at a Catholic school that shifted from white to black , witnessed the curriculum , classroom conduct , and even the celebration of Mass change radically as demographics changed .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ that we ’ ll be fine if everyone just “ converts ” to their faith need to understand the implications of this .
Even the Universal Church breaks down along racial lines in practice .
• Hugh Kennedy ’ s account of the 1972 mutiny aboard the S.S. Kitty Hawk shows that what may be the “ first and only mutiny in the history of the United States Navy ” was simply a black rebellion that wasn ’ t based on any “ real discrimination.
” Again , this is a rebuke to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ forge a united American identity through discipline and common purpose .
Essay after essay , example after example , study after study , A Dissident ’ s Guide proves again and again that common creeds , institutions , or countries can ’ t cope with the fact that blacks are simply different from whites—and perhaps uniquely different from every other race .
After all , according to New York Times 1619 Project Historian N. Hanna Jones ( the self-styled “ Ida Bae Wells ” ) , Hispanics may now be white .
To @ @ @ @ @ @ @ essay is Benjamin J. Ryan ’ s “ The Unknown Martin Luther King Jr. ” King is the central figure of what Korean-American columnist Wesley Yang calls America ’ s “ successor-ideology , ” the civic code ( or , if you prefer , the state cult ) that is replacing the American identity once defined by the Founding Fathers [ MLK Is Post-White America ’ s Founding Father , by Gregory Hood , American Renaissance , January 22 , 2020 ] .
The real Martin Luther King Jr was a scoundrel , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and , bluntly , not very intelligent .
These are the least damning charges .
At worst , he assaulted women and he stood by , laughed and gave advice while one of his fellow “ Christian leaders ” raped a female parishioner [ The MLK Tapes : Secret FBI Recordings Accuse Martin Luther King Jr of Watching and Laughing as a Pastor Raped a Woman , by Jack Newman , American Renaissance , May 26 , 2019 ] .
The imaginary MLK that conservatives embrace every year was an American patriot who @ @ @ @ @ @ @ everyone would be judged by the “ content of their character.
” This pseudo-minister would have failed such a test given his own conduct .
But more important politically is the fact that Martin Luther King Jr explicitly supported the racial redistribution of wealth , partnership with Communists , and anti-white racial discrimination a.k.a .
Affirmative Action .
This so-called minister also couldn ’ t really be called a Christian in any real way , given that he disputed “ the full divinity of Jesus , the Virgin Birth , and the Resurrection @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of their literal interpretation.
’ ” Perhaps he wasn ’ t a hypocrite after all , given that he didn ’ t have any sincere religious beliefs that would prevent him from constantly cheating on his wife .
This man is the foundation upon which both the mainstream Left and Right think we can build a meaningful “ American identity.
” King ’ s erstwhile rival , Malcolm X , also receives an essay .
According to a relatively recent biography , the man whom activist Ossie Davis famously eulogized as “ our @ @ @ @ @ @ @ satisfy his wife sexually and became a literal cuckold and , perhaps in retaliation , an adulterer ( though not one quite so shameless as King ) .
His erstwhile militant Black Nationalism ( which he once crudely expressed by praising Allah for a plane crash because whites died ) ended with him being a pathetic grifter of guilty whites .
Thus , we see Black Nationalism ’ s evolution from Du Bois , to Malcolm X , to Keith Ellison , with calls for pride and self-sufficiency transformed into demands for charity @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Of course , no people can be defined by caricature .
Taylor ’ s essay “ What I Like About Black People ” is far more charitable than what is expressed about whites any day at The New York Times .
Essays from individual blacks on how they became race realists are poignant , even tragic .
There is far more nuance about blacks in this “ extreme ” book than there is about whites in so-called mainstream publications .
After all , whatever the MSM may say about white advocates , they @ @ @ @ @ @ @ black neighborhoods or engaging in shootouts at funerals and nightclubs .
Ordinary blacks , who deserve to live in functional communities with their basic rights guaranteed , are the ones paying the price .
Both working class blacks and white victims of black crimes are sacrifices on the altar of Diversity , martyrs to an absurd creed that enables our cultural and economic masters to maintain their control .
To echo Solzhenitsyn , we can not live by lies .
Pretending blacks and whites are the same is a lie .
The more @ @ @ @ @ @ @ this lie , the more force is required , the more freedoms are stripped away , and the more everyone suffers .
We must take the world as it is , not as the way Martin Luther King ’ s plagiarized slogans pretend it is .
A Dissident ’ s Guide to Blacks And Africa is a foundation for understanding racial reality that will become even clearer if Biden wins the Presidency and the Black Party returns to power .
Until we have a government that operates on reality rather than fantasies , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ it reaches its final , inevitable extirpation .
James Kirkpatrick [ Email him |Tweet him @ VDAREJamesK ] is a Beltway veteran and a refugee from Conservatism Inc. His latest book is Conservatism Inc. : The Battle for the American Right .
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If President Donald Trump “loses” the 2020 election, it will be two critical reasons: 1) white men did not support Donald Trump by the same margins as in 2016, (though we may need better data on this) [How voters shifted during four years of Trump, by Zachary Wolf, Curt Merrill, and Daniel Wolfe, CNN, November 4, 2020]; 2) political machines in cities like Philadelphia, Detroit, Atlanta, and other heavily black cities harvested enough votes for Joe Biden, Jared Kushner’s “Platinum Plan” notwithstanding. The Democratic Party has become the Black Party. To understand the implications, it’s important to read A Dissident’s Guide To Blacks And Africa.
A Dissident’s Guide is a compilation edited by American Renaissance founder Jared Taylor which explores the behavior of Africans, and, to borrow Malcolm X’s phrase, Africans who happen to be in America. It also explains the creation of the racial narratives about “white guilt” and “white privilege” which now guide government policy in what is still laughably considered the world’s sole superpower. It is a warning that must be taken seriously to ensure the survival of this country, its historic identity, and what few liberties are left to us.
Editor Jared Taylor shows us that “Woke” politics is not some recent invention. The black Communist W.E.B. Du Bois and his “bitterness” provided some of the slogans you’ll hear on any college campus today. “He once wrote that Western Civilization was "built on black and brown and yellow suffering,” notes Taylor (though whether the “yellows” are still welcome in the Coalition of the Fringes is an open question). Du Bois also wrote a ditty that simply consisted of variations of the words “I hate them” and a wish for divine power so he could end the white race. Du Bois, Taylor writes, is not now remembered for his support for Stalinism or Imperial Japan but “for establishing the racial orthodoxy of white culpability.”
Several essays show that blacks truly think differently than whites. Establishing a common political or moral order may be impossible when many Africans seem incapable of grasping abstract concepts.
Essay after essay, example after example, study after study, A Dissident’s Guide proves again and again that common creeds, institutions, or countries can’t cope with the fact that blacks are simply different from whites—and perhaps uniquely different from every other race. After all, according to New York Times 1619 Project Historian N. Hanna Jones (the self-styled “Ida Bae Wells”), Hispanics may now be white.
To my mind, perhaps the most important essay is Benjamin J. Ryan’s “The Unknown Martin Luther King Jr.” King is the central figure of what Korean-American columnist Wesley Yang calls America’s “successor-ideology,” the civic code (or, if you prefer, the state cult) that is replacing the American identity once defined by the Founding Fathers [MLK Is Post-White America’s Founding Father, by Gregory Hood, American Renaissance, January 22, 2020].
The real Martin Luther King Jr was a scoundrel, a hypocrite, a political extremist, and, bluntly, not very intelligent. These are the least damning charges. At worst, he assaulted women and he stood by, laughed and gave advice while one of his fellow “Christian leaders” raped a female parishioner [The MLK Tapes: Secret FBI Recordings Accuse Martin Luther King Jr of Watching and Laughing as a Pastor Raped a Woman, by Jack Newman, American Renaissance, May 26, 2019].
The imaginary MLK that conservatives embrace every year was an American patriot who favored a “colorblind” country where everyone would be judged by the “content of their character.” This pseudo-minister would have failed such a test given his own conduct.
But more important politically is the fact that Martin Luther King Jr explicitly supported the racial redistribution of wealth, partnership with Communists, and anti-white racial discrimination a.k.a. Affirmative Action.
This so-called minister also couldn’t really be called a Christian in any real way, given that he disputed “the full divinity of Jesus, the Virgin Birth, and the Resurrection, suggesting that we ‘strip them of their literal interpretation.’” Perhaps he wasn’t a hypocrite after all, given that he didn’t have any sincere religious beliefs that would prevent him from constantly cheating on his wife.
This man is the foundation upon which both the mainstream Left and Right think we can build a meaningful “American identity.”
King’s erstwhile rival, Malcolm X, also receives an essay. According to a relatively recent biography, the man whom activist Ossie Davis famously eulogized as “our living black manhood” was unable to satisfy his wife sexually and became a literal cuckold and, perhaps in retaliation, an adulterer (though not one quite so shameless as King). His erstwhile militant Black Nationalism (which he once crudely expressed by praising Allah for a plane crash because whites died) ended with him being a pathetic grifter of guilty whites.
Thus, we see Black Nationalism’s evolution from Du Bois, to Malcolm X, to Keith Ellison, with calls for pride and self-sufficiency transformed into demands for charity from clueless, rich white liberals.
Of course, no people can be defined by caricature. Taylor’s essay “What I Like About Black People” is far more charitable than what is expressed about whites any day at The New York Times. Essays from individual blacks on how they became race realists are poignant, even tragic. There is far more nuance about blacks in this “extreme” book than there is about whites in so-called mainstream publications. After all, whatever the MSM may say about white advocates, they are not the ones blasting away in black neighborhoods or engaging in shootouts at funerals and nightclubs. Ordinary blacks, who deserve to live in functional communities with their basic rights guaranteed, are the ones paying the price.
Both working class blacks and white victims of black crimes are sacrifices on the altar of Diversity, martyrs to an absurd creed that enables our cultural and economic masters to maintain their control.
To echo Solzhenitsyn, we cannot live by lies. Pretending blacks and whites are the same is a lie. The more America and the world try to uphold this lie, the more force is required, the more freedoms are stripped away, and the more everyone suffers. We must take the world as it is, not as the way Martin Luther King’s plagiarized slogans pretend it is.
A Dissident’s Guide to Blacks And Africa is a foundation for understanding racial reality that will become even clearer if Biden wins the Presidency and the Black Party returns to power.
Until we have a government that operates on reality rather than fantasies, Western Civilization will continue to decline until it reaches its final, inevitable extirpation.


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New Content Posted! Make sure you are subscribed to the VDARE.com Book Club [click here to join!] by Tuesday Nov. 10th to win a copy of Michelle Malkin's Open Borders Inc.: Who's Funding America's Destruction?
In her 2019 exposé Open Borders Inc., during Trump's third year in office, Michelle Malkin predicted this moment:
“It may seem paradoxical at this pivotal moment in American political history, with a president in office who is more vocal than any other on fundamental issues of sovereignty and self-determination, that America First voices are being stifled… But it makes perfect sense. Globalists are doing everything in their power to deny President Trump reelection in 2020.” p. xxi
Of course, this is now happening. Unlike the elected executive office, globalists, NGOs, and other unelected organizations with extraordinary finances wield enormous power. The president himself is censored on social media—arguably election interference [Allum Bokhari’s Deleted: GOP, Trump Learn The Hard Way—Laura Loomer Was Right!, by James Kirkpatrick on October 15, 2020]. And by the way, who's funding these ballot harvesting schemes?
The fearless Michelle Malkin tackles the Soros Question, now verboten, naming ten categories of organizations receiving Open Society Foundations grants that are working to dissolve national sovereignty. But she doesn't stop there. Her findings expose the SPLC "Hate Machine," Antifa, Hollywood, and the "alphabet soup" of NGOs working to undermine our country.
In November and December, read with us here! As Malkin says, "Follow the money, find the truth."