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Catching Up on this Historic Moment in American History

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I fell asleep around midnight (EST) and woke up a little after 6:00am to stunned delight about the Republicans winning the Presidency, the Senate, and the House. I’m not a particularly religious person but fell to my knees and offered a silent prayer of immense gratitude.

This historic moment is something I needed to see with my own eyes.  Given that you might be in a similar situation, here you are: minutes before Trump achieved 270 electoral college votes..  Here’s Trump’s Victory Speech.   Steve Bannon’s reaction

Meltdown thread (please add more in the comments)

The UK Socialists clearly played their cards very badly (language warning)

An Indictment of the Political Information Complex

Pleasing Your Enemies Does Not Turn Them Into Friends

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Never back down, never apologize: Reflecting on how the UCP convention became a 91.5% love-in for Smith

And right on time.

Don Braid: Time for Smith to take economic action against Liberal Ottawa, and make it sting

VRWC Program Notes: Live Q&A

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From the National Post;

What is it about Poilievre’s style and policies that seems to have Tories across the pond looking at him with interest?

Join National Post columnist Geoff Russ on Wednesday, Oct. 30, at 12 p.m. ET/9 a.m. PT, when he will be taking your questions in the comment section under his upcoming article on why the global right is looking to Poilievre, rather than Donald Trump, as a new model for conservatism. Register today for your opportunity to ask Geoff Russ anything.

This Q&A is a free, registration-only event, but we have a number of subscriber-only events planned for the near future, including live chats and interviews with some of Canada’s best columnists and leading newsmakers.

Might be interesting.

Saskatchewan Election 2024: Open Thread (Bumped)

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Final update: It’s a 5th consecutive SaskParty majority, extending their government into it’s 21st year but with reduced seats. A clear urban-rural split, the upstart Sask United party and Greens each cost the two major parties a seat or two, and another one or two still close. 52% turnout, about the same as 2020.

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Polls are now closed, Rebel News is covering the returns on X livestream.

2024 SKVotes.

Four Moe years? Or Rachel Notley lite?

Polls are open. and so are the comments for your observations and predictions. The latest Philippe Fournier polling claims the parties are tied in popular vote.

Of the 61 seats at the Saskatchewan legislature at the time of dissolution, the Saskatchewan Party held the lion’s share with 42 seats.

The opposition NDP held 14 seats, four seats were held by independents, and one was vacant.

The Regina Reader Post has an interactive map to track results this evening.

Commies Creep To Majority In BC

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They’re being vewy, vewy caweful: Why does it take so long to count so few votes?

This is a really stupid take by Spencer Fernando.

Constitutional Firebreaks

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Robert F. Graboyes;

Across the American West, fire wardens create firebreaks—vegetation-free swaths gouged through forests and fields to slow and limit the spread of wildfires. In U.S. presidential elections, the Electoral College serves the same purpose—limiting the spread of one state’s malfeasance, manipulation, ineptitude, and/or operational failure to other states. For all the trauma and bitterness that emerged from Florida in 2000, the catastrophe was limited to one state.

For years, a choir of voices has demanded that we eliminate the Electoral College and elect presidents via national popular vote (NPV)—an idea that is appealing in theory, but treacherous in execution. NPV is the electoral equivalent of filling firebreaks with pampas grass, scrub oaks, dead brush, bails of hay, and discarded chemicals. Eliminating the Electoral College could turn virtually every presidential election, every four years, into a 50-state Florida-2000-style conflagration—with a partisan arms race of electoral machinations in the years between elections.

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