I VOTED IN PERSON EARLY, a privilege I respect, and look forward to each Election Day, but it wasn’t without its hiccups.  The polling location was supposed to open at 8 a.m., but thankfully I didn’t intend to go that early.  When I arrived at 9 a.m., I learned about the delayed opening and stories of people who left, deciding not to wait. 

The line wasn’t that long, but there was a bit of confusion for those like me, who simply wanted to drop off their completed mail-in ballots. Once inside, it was a bit hectic when some people struggled with the electronic registration. The rubber gloves may have contributed to some of the problems. And unlike past elections, a ballot was printed for each voter after your registration was confirmed.  Could this be a ploy to get voters to switch to all mail-in voting in the future?

As I left, I was pleased to see a long line of patriots waiting to exercise their right to vote.  I wish I could have made a pitch for Trump-Pence, and Sen. McSally, of course, but that would have been frowned upon.  However, using my blog, I can encourage you to vote and reelect the Trump-Pence team.

Over the next four days the location will be open, I imagine the volunteers will have the problems worked out.  I hope you exercise your right to vote and return President Trump and Vice President Pence to continue to make America great.

THE COMRADERIE among our nation’s astronaut corps only goes so far.  Astronauts Tom Stafford, Charlie Duke and Jack Lousma endorsed Republican Sen. Martha McSally over former astronaut Mark Kelly in an op-ed published at The Arizona Central. 

They were later joined by Buzz Aldrin, the second man to walk on the Moon, reported Becca Lower in Red State.

“We remember a not-so-distant past when the Air Force wouldn’t let women fly in combat,” they wrote. “Instead of sitting down, accepting the status quo, McSally stood up, fought for change and made strides for generations of women to follow her.”

The astronauts say that while McSally has a record of accomplishments to point to, Kelly’s positions remain largely unknown.  They accuse Kelly of hiding his left-wing agenda behind the word “astronaut.”

“But having “astronaut” on your resume does not mean you’d be a good U.S. Senator,” the astronauts wrote. “Mark Kelly is hoping Arizonans are so impressed with his background that they ignore the fact that he’s supported radical gun control activists, that his plan for the eventual takeover of health care would end Medicare as we know it, and that he’d vote to raise our taxes.”

LEAVE IT TO SALENA ZITO, the talented grassroots journalist, who scours the backroads of America for the thoughts and opinions of voters, to surface the experiences of women voters.

In her New York Post article, “Meet the suburban women who may yet win the election for Trump,” Zito takes her readers to Upper Yoder Township, a suburb of Johnstown, in the southwest corner of Pennsylvania’s Cambria County in the foothills of the Laurel Mountains.

“Full of young families and retirees,” she notes, “the homes are lovely and well-kept, the neighborhood is tidy and the school district is highly ranked.”

Grassroots suburban enough for you?

She writes of Christina Sakmar, who has lived in the county most of her life.  Like her neighbors, she was once a Democrat, but she found herself more aligned with the Republicans decades ago.  She’s an occupational therapist at Conemaugh Hospital.  She is the quintessential suburban, white, voter.

“Sakmar not only voted for Trump in 2016, she volunteered to do door knocking; she will vote for him again,” wrote Zito. “And she isn’t alone.  Trump’s popularity in Cambria County is so intense that it now has more registered GOP voters.”

Travelling to suburban Milwaukee, she writes of Carla Muller, who “came within a hair of not voting for Trump in 2016.” It was his lack of track record.

Muller,43, lives with her husband and two young children in Wauwatosa and doesn’t like Trump’s gruff manner, but dislike the media’s treatment of him.

Her husband lost his job amid the pandemic lockdowns, and “will have no hesitation this time voting for Trump. He’s delivered, and he is the only one who will continue to do so when it comes to the economy,” she told Zito.

“What the media and pundits forget is that Trump didn’t win the majority of female voters in 2016,” Zito says, “especially the suburbs of New York City or Washington DC; but he did win just enough of them in suburbs in Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, North Carolina, Michigan and Florida.”

Zito confides that not all suburbs are created equal, and while Trump struggled with women with college degrees, he ran strong with white women without college degrees

RASMUSSEN REPORTS that President Trump is leading Joe Biden 48 percent to 47 percent in the debut of its head-to-head poll, and interestingly, 49 percent of Democrats believe Biden is unlikely to finish a four-year term if elected.  Fifty-nine percent of all likely voters agree.

IF IT WAS ANYONE BUT JOE BIDEN, one could excuse using a mistaken number of 120 million deaths from Covid-19, when the number at the time was 220 thousand.  But he repeated it again during his recent Pennsylvania appearance, and his running mate, Kamala Harris, also used the inflated number. 

Considering the fact that the left is using the final days of the campaign to criticize the president’s handling of the virus, they may be intentionally inflating the number.

The Democrat nominee continues to have problems with numbers.  Last September, he said his promised tax credit for child care cost would “put 720 million back in the workforce.” “That would be mighty impressive,” wrote Tyler O’Neil in PJ Media, “considering there are roughly 330 million Americans – men, women and children.

Earlier this year, during a discussion of the need for gun control, Biden claimed that 150 million people had been killed since 2007.”  In 2017, NBC News reported that 1.53 million people had died of gunshots since 1968, not 2007, still one hundred times less than Biden’s claim.  Incidentally, 1.2 million service members have been killed in every war in American history.

THE POMPUS LEFT-LEANING SHEPARD SMITH got his comeuppance when his new gig at CNBC bombed in the 7 p.m. eastern time slot, rated last among all cable shows.  He dropped from 343,000 viewers in his first week to 268,000 in his second week and 254,000 in his third week. He had a meager 48,000 viewers in the 25-54 age demographic.

Most embarrassing to Smith had to be the fact that a 7 p.m. repeat of the Fox Business Network Lou Dobbs Tonight show, originally aired at 5 p.m., outperformed Smith’s show.

ANDREW MCCARTHY, of National Review, offered his observance of journalism today @AndrewCMcCarthy: “What a time to be in journalism.  Between Bobulinski and the Biden corruption scandal, rioting in our cities, a new Supreme Court Justice’s first full day, and peace breaking out in the Middle East, has there ever been so much “not” to cover?!”

May God continue to bless the United States of America.