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This has been a Presidential election year like no other.
Almost all predicting pollsters got it wrong — both those who predicted a Republican victory and those predicting a Democratic blowout. And some in between.
As one pollster remarked, this has not been good for pollsters. Their track record in 2016 and 2020 is nothing to brag about. A coin flip might have been as accurate.
What happened this year seems to be this: some voters came to the edge of a precipice, peered into the abyss, and shrank back in favor of integrity, decency, and fair play. It was that close.
Unlike the proverbial lemmings, they didn’t go over.
And it isn’t over.
A slight majority of voters (right now Joe Biden is leading nationally by slightly over 4M popular votes) won’t be able to breathe a collective sigh of relief until after the Electoral College has met on December 14 and the electoral vote is ratified by states and Congress.
There may be other unpredictable challenges, their outcomes uncertain.
One thing seems certain: the current occupant of the White House is following the admonition (in different context) of Welsh poet Dylan Thomas (1914–1953). He is not going to go gentle. Rather, he is going to rage.
