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Certainly close to a sign tap moment…

NEW: GEORGIA UPDATE- 10 polling stations have extended their hours due to the disruption from non-credible bomb threats. North Carolina now likely to be first battleground states for polls to close.

The Daily Mail guilty of spectacularly mixed metaphors. But it does generate a terrifying AI image when used as a prompt…

Word of the day is ‘recrudescence’ (17th century): the return of something terrible after a time of reprieve.

Fixing the UK’s broken relationship with the EU is even more urgent than before. We must strengthen trade and defence cooperation across Europe to help protect ourselves from the damage Trump will do.

In 2016, Dems funnelled energy into anti-Trump movement. This time I suspect something more like a circular firing squad will occur. There is plenty of blame to go round and if they lose the House, they don’t have an obvious venue for opposing GOP so focus will be on intra-party.

Cross posting from the hellsphere, but worth it because, as ever, Susie Dent delivers.

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This I think will be the analysis people settle on… Biden should have stood back in 2022 and allowed contested primary.

This timing is… sub-optimal.

We’re going to hear lots of stories about which people, policies and rhetoric are to blame for the Democrats’ defeat. Some of those stories may even be true! But an underrated factor is that 2024 was an absolutely horrendous year for incumbents around the world 👇

If Joe wants to mess up Trump’s inauguration he should quit the day before and make Kamala president for 24 hours. All those made in China “45 & 47” hats will be useless.

He might not appreciate the metaphor, but Andrew Copson has the patience of a Saint in this podcast! As ever, his thoughts are really interesting. share.snipd.com/episode/6ce92d…

Given the circumstances, a bit of duck and cover under a desk would perhaps have been legitimate.

This does not bode well for Transatlantic intelligence sharing. Look forward to all those Conservative MPs who simultaneously supported Trump but are also big fans of 5 eyes network to square the circle.

One thing that is striking about Trump appointments so far (aside from 🦇💩) is number from Senate, Congress & State gov. Even at moment of victory, this doesn’t seem a sign of strength. Rather seems to indicate that Maga-land is pretty thin if you have to raid other branches.

The man who has a pseudo-scientific, entirely arbitrary election prediction method… What went wrong? buff.ly/40VujhD

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New article alert: Facebook election advertising: dangerous for democracy or politics as usual? The case of the 2017 UK general election, just published in the Journal of Information Technology & Politics. Full article is available open access, and I have written a short account here: medium.com/@NickAnstead/n…