Kenneth Tiven

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.

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.

The vice presidential debate was 90 minutes of watching Republican Mike Pence imitate and support US President Donald Trump, using their largely fact-free version of reality concerning the last four years against Democratic candidate Kamala Harris.

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