Today is Election Day, the day we have been anxiously awaiting for months, if not years. People who have not voted early will be casting their ballots today throughout the 49 states. Will President Trump win a second term, or will Joe Biden win this bitterly fought contest? I say 49 states, since I live in Colorado, and President Trump announced in a speech this year that he was building "a big, beautiful wall" on the southern border of our state to keep the rapists, murderers, and Muslim terrorists from getting into our country. Here in Colorado we now use the map on the left, which someone evidently adjusted using a sharpie, no doubt inspired by the incident where Trump altered a National Weather Service map to justify a remark he incorrectly made about a hurricane threatening Alabama. Hopefully, if New Mexico goes for Trump this election, he will let it back into the union and stop building that wall.
This is definitely the most exciting election we have seen in our lifetimes, since the president has indicated that if he does not win, it will be because of massive fraud, and he might not accept a peaceful transition of power. Because of this, and his telling the Proud Boys - a right wing militia group - to "stand down and stand by," buildings all over downtown Denver (as well as other cities) are being boarded up in case of possible Election Day riots and violence. Still another first for our country. Sadly, if Trump does lose, politics will probably never be as exciting as they were the last 4 years. How boring is that?
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