None of these group breakdowns are remotely surprising:

Every group that the Dems lost is a self-inflicted wound. They worked very hard to turn off these particular groups.

Democrats spent, what, $150 million?, in Texas to get this:

The lack of a program and a candidate of their own pushed them to imitate Trump’s 2020 campaign and repeat all of its mistakes.

I have a message for the readers who voted for Harris.

You are good people, and I respect your choice. I know you want what’s best. Good, decent, kind people is what you are. You have to notice, though, that, as The New York Times reports, over 90% of counties where votes have been counted so far have shifted rightward. This means that your message is not landing. It’s time to reassess.

For the past quarter century, the overwhelming majority of Americans of all political persuasions have consistently wanted less immigration. You need to start listening. “Bipartisan immigration amnesties” will not work. Only real results will.

Also, you’ve got to quit it with the “first woman of color” and all that. We’ve already had the first black president. Twice. You can’t keep milking minority identities for symbolic value. That milestone has been achieved. Let’s move on.

The pronouns, the 32 genders, and the rest of the DEI hobby horses are turning people off. It’s time to leave it in the past as a temporary delusion and concentrate on what’s real.

There’s a lot more that needs to be abandoned but even just these 3 things will make an enormous difference. We will all be happier, you will be happier, if you see that you’ve gone off course and need to correct.

This can be a moment to celebrate because it’s always good to have a definitive answer whether something is working or not. The points I named are not working for you or the country at large. Let the new era begin, and we’ll all win as a result.

Once again, I have to say how impressive Trump’s capacity to learn is. Forget politics for a second. There’s a great lesson here for each of us and our non-political lives.

To give just one example, throughout his first term and the 2020 campaign, Trump seemed congenitally incapable of surrounding himself with brilliant people. Whether he feared being eclipsed or simply didn’t think it was necessary, he was always surrounded with blundering, blethering fools.

You’d think this is a character flaw that’s impossible to overcome, especially in one’s late seventies. But in this campaign, Trump suddenly adopted a completely different course. He surrounded himself with mega popular people with gigantic platforms. Some of these people are significantly younger than him, yet he doesn’t act like he feels upstaged or threatened by Musk, Rogan, RFK, etc. Whether you personally like them or not, it’s undeniable that they have a massive following.

And there are many examples like these, making the 2024 campaign immensely different from what we saw in 2020. Again, forget partisanship. It’s about how it’s never too late to change course. And that’s good news for all of us.

Now Canada has to elect Pierre Poilievre, and the hard right turn in North America will be complete.

Nobody can say that Americans and Canadians didn’t give the modern Left a chance. Every social engineering policy, every readjustment of the economy, every DEI initiative were tried. Not only did they fail to create any improvement in any area but their authors themselves only got angrier and more frustrated as a result of  every one of their own victories.

DEI lost today. This is a victory for all of us. All Americans won a big victory. This is one of those rare situations where there are no winners and losers. The far left that has been dictating to us for years is bad for all of us. That it’s been beaten back is great news. No matter how you voted, I know that you’ll feel better as a result of DEI’s loss.

I went to tuck in my child who suddenly sat up in bed and said, “with 72% of votes counted, Donald Trump is leading in North Carolina” before dropping back into bed and resuming sleep.

I have a very early day tomorrow but I’m afraid to go to bed because another middle-of-the-night surprise à la 2020 would be excessive.

So? Has anybody heard anything? What should we expect? Are we going to be able to sleep tonight or not?

We’ve been hearing that women are turning out to vote a lot more actively than men. We’ve been hearing that it’s abortion, it’s whatever else. But maybe it’s all much simpler and I got the answer to this question today when I received two ballots “by mistake.”

I just voted.

First of all, RFK is on the ballot. I could have voted for him. When I asked here on the blog how come the ballot included a candidate who’d withdrawn, people told me it was going to be changed. Well, it wasn’t. RFK is still there on voting day, splintering the Republican vote.

Another issue is that I had two ballots in my envelope. I’m a registered Democrat, female. When I brought the additional ballot to the attention of the election judge, she said, “Ha ha, this keeps happening today.” I have no idea if it “keeps happening” to registered Republican voters.

Yet another problem is that in the very short time I spent at the poll, a woman came in asking to vote. She was told she’d requested and received a mail-in ballot. She claimed to know absolutely nothing about it. This was an immigrant woman with poor English skills. Whether she voted already, or somebody did on her behalf, or something else took place, nobody can unravel.

I spent maybe 10 minutes total at the poll and it was enough to observe all this stuff. It’s disturbing, is all I can say.

Ooh, and it turns out I’m staying at a really nice hotel at the conference. It’s got a swimming pool! My plan to never set foot outside the hotel is starting to look feasible.

Unfortunately, it’s a short direct flight with no layover. I wouldn’t mind a very long layover. Just sitting at an airport for hours. But it’s not meant to be.