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Looks like, as of now, Joe Biden has surpassed Barack Obama's popular vote record of 2008.

Luckily, election night ended juuuuust about good enough for Biden, being ahead in Nevada and WIsconsin, that a Trump attack via courts today looks just about shady enough. And with Georgia Senate runoffs looming further vote tampering could become very dangerous for that tiny Senate majority.

Yeah, I'm not sure how to think about that. Trumpism is alive. That might make Trump bow out a little easier, because he'll always have his media platform. And hell, he might think about running again in 2024. But he's also a very, very flawed symbol of Trumpism, because in the end, there might just be too many personality flaws within him. But his voters won't go away. And a somewhat smoother demagogue, younger, more focused, could easily run on that.

This is a win - thank you Omaha...

It was a likely scenario though, and the scenario Trump liked, that he would be ahead on election day and the early vote would come in later the week, especially in Pennsylvania. That's why he telegraphed in advance, that the Dems would "steal the election" etc.... And yes, Biden still has better chance to win, for example, The New York Times gives him a 63% chance of winning in Georgia. Still, the state polls were off. Shy Trump voters it seems. And why, oh why, does it always have to be so chaotic? Will there be another "Brooks Brothers" riot, i.e. Republican party activists disrupting the state count? But this time in Pennsylvania.... And in addition, yes, Biden gained a lot over Hillary, for example in Minnesota and New Hampshire, also a couple of points in Ohio. You would think that it would translate to Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania at least somewhat. Trump won those states in 2016 by less than 1%. But no, it gets just as close as the last time.

I'll rub one out in her honor.

I'd vote for Golden Retriever.

Another "dementia in football" article: https://www.theguardian.com/football/2020/nov/02/dementia-football-rife-game-not-doing-enough-to-help-chris-chilton-gary-chilton I think, there's an avalanche of football players with dementia coming (as if we couldn't have guessed by the recent news). However, if you want another name for your lists, former Hull City / Coventry City player Chris Chilton, dementia for 8 years.

Ughhh.. cancer face?

Ah, I confused them, too, I think. Arrowsmith is right, one is a journalist, one a lawyer.

My Deathrace pick Rabbi Dovid Soloveitchik, 99, is still alive, but has been hospitalized for COVID 3 days ago: https://www.theyeshivaworld.com/news/featured/1914997/tehillim-rosh-yeshivas-brisk-hagaon-harav-dovid-soloveitchik-hospitalized.html

Jimmy Carter sent an Email to "turn Texas blue": https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/30/us/elections/the-last-democratic-presidential-candidate-to-win-texas-jimmy-carter-seeks-to-turn-texas-blue.html But it looks like his appearances in person are over..?

Going through my longlist, you know the deal, lots of minor news on certain names... ...Brian Blessed gave an interview and revealed that his wife had cancer and COVID this year, but she survived both. His wife his also an actress, Hildegard Neil: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hildegarde_Neil Interview: https://www.dailystar.co.uk/showbiz/brian-blessed-praises-wife-after-22815633

Huh, seeing her on the screen right now, I didn't realize that feminist lawyer Gloria Steinem is already 86 years old. Her voice was a little shaky on an ABC interview.

Vladimir Marugov, Russian oligarch, and nicknamed "The Sausage King" has been killed in a sauna with a crossbow, because it's Russia: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-54782634

Student Connor Reed, first Briton to catch the virus, "found dead" in his apartment: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8902745/First-Briton-catch-Covid-dies.html They make it sound as if Covid, and being locked down in China, caused his suicide. But then we cannot know the truth.

Depends, are you a Scot?

Lorne Figley, world's oldest plumber, according to the Guinness Book of World Records, dead at 96, and Canadian: https://globalnews.ca/news/7436296/worlds-oldest-plumber-veteran-dies/amp/

Australian DJ Phil K dead of bladder cancer at 51: https://www.nme.com/en_au/news/music/melbourne-dj-phil-k-has-died-following-a-battle-with-bladder-cancer-2806875 The diagnosis had been revealed in 2018. Edit: DDP pick for Joey's B-team.

Paul Harvey, basically, just an old person with dementia... But then he got media coverage with a "music keeps me alert" angle, and he now has a hit record.... or hit digital file.... anyway, 80 and dementia: https://www.theguardian.com/music/2020/nov/01/i-didnt-expect-a-fuss-how-a-composer-with-dementia-got-to-no-1

Yeah, Jason Miller is speaking the Trump campaign spin. "Being ahead on election night" = having more of their votes counted already, because the vote by mail might take another day or so. "steal it back" = counting the vote by mail There are very few countries on Earth where the vote is already finalized on election day. The Trump campaign is trying to sell you a twisted interpretation of numbers - as if there was still a race after Election day that the democrats try to win. But no, it's just the technicality of infrastructure not being able to handle it all on one day.

My predictions for a couple of these swing states: Pennsylvania: Biden +5 Wisconsin: Biden +7 Michigan: Biden +9 Minnesota: Biden +10 Arizona: Biden +4 Florida: Biden +1 Iowa: Trump +2 Texas: Trump +0 Georgia: Trump +0 North Carolina: Biden +2 South Carolina: Trump +5 Nevada: Biden +9 Ohio: Biden +1 I think Texas and Georgia would go for Biden under "normal" circumstances - but with court cases and such, the results will come out in a certain way. Edit: Ah, and Biden wins all the electoral votes in Maine, and one in Nebraska

According to the Wikipedia "Deaths of 2020" page, there were four notable Russians dying from COVID on Octobre 29th. It must be very severe there - even worse than the statistics say. And just look at the other days, and include the global perspective. It's worse than the first wave now.

Not a surprise, sadly. I guess he'll grace many lists from now on. Yes, he should have his own thread.

Christophe Nayel has metastatic cancer and a gofundme: https://www.gofundme.com/f/christophe-nayel039s-cancer-batte-fund Who is that, you might ask.. well he's a New York artist who briefly touched world fame when he posed as Bill Clinton for the portrait in Jeffrey Epstein's appartment. Could obit, probably not, but well, stranger things have happened.