Quincy Quarry Weekly Fish Wrap: A Halloween Trifecta!

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Quincy Quarry Weekly Fish Wrap: A Halloween Trifecta!

At the same time, it will likely turn out to not be a winning bet.

How badly will it likely turn out to be?

For starters: a full moon on Halloween and for the first time locally since 1955.

What else could possibly go wrong?

For starters, COVID-19 infection rates have been going up dramatically in recent weeks regionally, nationally, and internationally even though we have only barely entered the start of the cold time of year when most of us will be opting to spend ever more time cooped up indoors as well as closing our windows.

Vote earlier and often!
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Additionally, right after we might in the meanwhile survive Halloween, we are looking at Election Day on Tuesday.

Well, actually more the semi-official end of a greatly extended voting season this year as well as then the beginning of ballot counting and only reasonable to concurrently expect all but unending legal challenges filed over same.

Granted, while we are probably not looking at a comparable reprise of the problematic 1876 presidential election as well as that many are hoping that we do not suffer a 2016 2.0 outcome, given the way the 2016 election played out we thus all know all too well that the unexpected can happen.

Dead man campaigning?
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Even so, Quincy Quarry is still secretly rooting for a second post presidential election dope slapping of pollsters if for no other reasons than for their incessant robocalls.

Granted, while President Trump will probably trail in the final official vote count and also almost as likely not be the winner per deciding Electoral College tally, the Quarry is still concurrently seeing a lot of both late tightening up as well as volatility in senate race polls, especially in races where Republican candidates have been viewed as vulnerable, if not roadkill.

Key to this Quincy Quarry hunch are nascent indications of ballot splitting by at least some in the not die hard partisan middle of those voting this year.

The mother’s milk of politics
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Specifically, while probably enough voters are leaning towards voting for Biden in traditionally or at least recently Red States to flip enough of these states for Biden to win in the Electoral College, a subset of these same voters will likely continue to favor their state’s GOP senate candidate – think a Trump fatigue variation on otherwise deep blue Massachusetts’ now several decades long history of generally electing a Republican as its governor even as outside Democratic money is airdropped by the tens of millions to Democratic senate candidates at record breaking levels and so making it possible for these candidates to outspent their Republican opponents by as much as several fold.

Wisely, maybe not so much however admittedly amusing in a South Park sort of way.

Getting out the “shy” vote ….
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Plus, while the also ongoing but now called “shy” voter phenomena is not likely to save the day for Trump, it could still similarly help fend off a number of Democratic senate race challengers in what pollsters are calling close races.

Granted, while perhaps not enough to see Republicans retain control of the Senate, if we learned anything from the election in 2016, it doesn’t take much for things to happen.

Just ask President Hillary Clinton.

Enjoying holiday spirits, lots of spirits …
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In any event, Quincy Quarry has already fully stocked up and then some its supplies of adult libations for the expected extended dragging out of the election as well as even more so than people have recently again been laying in toilet paper.

After all, Election Night 2020 looks to be dragging into the next day as well as then probably then some.

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