Early voting by mail and at polling stations is under way in 37 states, with at least 33 million votes now in.
Tritle settled for a half-measure, opening with Handel's "Solomon" Overture to evoke a peaceable kingdom more generically.Here's one vote, now that we know the full version, to keep it.
If the Democrats can repeat their 2000 victories in Pennsylvania and Michigan, Florida's Electoral College votes (now twenty-seven, up from twenty-five) may in fact determine once again who wins the election.
With Collins, they appear to have now lost three votes.
By an odd symmetry, an unexpected change of one vote has now put the Democrats in charge of Senate business, so giving America something closer to the divided government that in 2000, as so often, it seems to have wanted.
Without sixty votes, it's now virtually impossible to accomplish anything in the contemporary United States Senate.
"There are fifty-one councilpersons, so we need twenty-six votes, and right now we've got twenty-one.
Imagine if we had a "national popular vote" standard with a narrowly divided national vote (say, a couple of thousand votes, as we now have in Florida, or many thousand, for that matter).
But has the idea already gone to pot? Right now, the top three vote-getters by far on MyIdea4CA are all about legalizing marijuana in some way.
Now five votes are needed for either side to win.
