7:55 -- Good morning. I'm sure that most of us are feeling very similarly today: Slightly more confident than not that Joe Biden will pull this out, but really disgusted with the state of the nation this morning because it did not overwhelmingly repudiate Donald Trump after the last four years. Also, frustrated again that a candidate likely to win the popular vote by five to seven million votes is still engaged in an insanely close race.

I know what most of you know at this point in the morning: Biden is narrowly leading in Nevada, Wisconson, and Arizona, looks likely to pull ahead in Michigan, may flip Georgia, and Pennsylvania looks like a Florida clusterfuck, and we may not know the final tally there until Friday.

Hopefully, it will not come down to Pennsylflorida, because Biden has a path through Nevada, Arizona, Wisconsin, Michigan, and Omaha 2, where things are looking favorable for the Democrat at the moment. Things do not look favorable in North Carolina, and things aren't looking good at all for the Democrats to take back the Senate. More on that when I have the appetite to discuss it.

We can blame the polls, we can blame the choice of candidate, and I'm sure that we can blame a thousand different factors this morning. Nate Silver might be a pud, but it's not his fault that Miami turned hard for Trump. It's not Nate Silver's fault that rural America is a darker shade of red these days and trending redder. It's not Nate Silver's fault that tens of millions of Americans looked at the last four years and thought, "Yeah. I want some more of that." Nate Silver and all the rest of the pollsters briefly got our hopes up (again) and allowed us to believe that the country might not be as bad as the evidence otherwise suggests every single day of our existence.
And it sure as hell isn't the fault of any of you.

Biden is still more likely than not to win this, notwithstanding Trump's overnight bullshit. Biden's win, however, will not erase any of the threats that continue to exist in America, except for one: That existential dread that hangs over all of us. If we can lift that at the end of the day, we'll at least be better emotionally prepared to deal with all of the rest of bullshit. And if Biden pulls out Georgia, someone better bake Stacy Abrams an amazing f**king cake.

Updates will continue throughout the day.