OK, folks. Greg Diamond over at the Orange Juice Blog provided us a little primer following the results of today's ballot tally. Rather than attempt to do a feeble paraphrase of his comprehensive essay on why we probably shouldn't be getting our collective shorts in a wad yet, you can read his entire tome HERE.
NOW I UNDERSTAND!Take a couple minutes to read his take on our numbers... perhaps you'll sleep a little better tonight and the rest of the week.
GRACIAS, AMIGO
Thanks to my friend, Greg, for this information. In a week we'll know how right he was.
Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor?!? NO!
ReplyDeleteHey, I kinda said the same thing yesterday. Outside of the analysis, numbers, statistics, history and insight.
The Germans bombed Pearl Harbor? I must have learned it wrong.
ReplyDeleteGood grief! Mixing metaphors is one thing, but mixing enemies? :-) We all just need to chill... nothing can be done or planned until we know the results of the election - probabaly a week from not. If Greg Diamond is correct, we'll have highs (hopefully) and lows before then. The trick is to end on a high - wait, that's a different discussion altogether! ;-)
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ReplyDelete"Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor?!? NO!"
ReplyDeleteA quote from future United States Senator John Blutarsky in 1978.
Thank you, David. To think these guys never watched Animal House.....
ReplyDeleteJust to clear-up an error in Greg Diamond's article about surrendered vote-by-mail ballots (I was a poll worker at a Costa Mesa polling location on Tuesday and handled a lot of surrendered vote-by-mail ballots from people who wanted to vote in-person, so I feel I'm qualified to make this point):
ReplyDeleteSurrendered vote-by-mail ballots are not the same as vote-by-mail ballots dropped-off to be placed in the ballot box at a polling location.
Vote-by-mail voters who wish to vote in-person at the polls must surrender their vote-by-mail ballots. They may then vote at the polls electronically or on a paper ballot. The surrendered vote-by-mail ballots are sealed in an Unused Ballot bag which is returned election nite to the registrar of voters for secure destruction. This prevents people from voting twice - once by mail, and again at the polls. If a voter doesn't have their VBM ballot to surrender, they can vote at the polls provisionally, in which case, the Registrar of Voters cross-checks during the count to make sure a VBM ballot was not received from that voter. Again, this prevents someone from voting twice. The more you know.....