Joe Biden

By Kenneth Tiven in USA ...

More than four days before the actual election date, the early voting and mail-in ballots have surpassed more than 50% of all the votes cast in 2016. The exact number is difficult to calculate because mail-in ballots are at unusual levels because of the pandemic impact on behaviour.

America is in the final week of election madness while the COVID-19 pandemic is in the initial weeks of a 3rd wave of renewed hostility to human life here and globally.

From $10 yard signs to $10 million for a minute-long TV commercial on Super Bowl Sunday, political advertising this year in the USA is a $10 billion payday.

In the midst of a pandemic that threatens his re-election, US President Donald Trump accomplished what few American leaders have ever managed with the appointment of a third Supreme Court justice in his first term in office.

In a usual national election 130,000,000 votes are cast, but this year for myriad reasons, many of which are obvious, the total vote this year in President Trump versus Joe Biden contest it is likely to top 150,000,000.

A determined debate moderator and some rules changes forced the final US Presidential debate into a somewhat more civilised style in Nashville, Tennessee. However, President Donald Trump ran into Joe Biden on one of Biden’s best nights.

With virtually all political polling showing him losing quite badly, Americans are wondering which Donald Trump will show up in Nashville, Tennessee Thursday night (Friday morning IST) for the final US presidential debate. For the past week, the presidential rage has been directed at Hunter Biden, his opponent’s son, in what most political experts believe is a smear job based on fake information.

It takes a worried man to sing a worried song*. Just about everyone involved in the US national election speaks with a sense of foreboding.

Appeals Court Judge Amy Coney Barrett told the committee she has no views on climate change relevant to the court. She couldn’t say Trump’s policy of having small children separated from their immigrant parents at the border was wrong.