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This is genuinely fascinating: it shows, out of the past ten Presidential elections (from Ronald Reagan vs. Jimmy Carter in 1980 all the way up to Trump in 2016) how states went. Check out the vertical line from TX up to ND – – 0 for 10!! It’s so interesting to me how the nation has these sweeping political factions:
There’s only 75 days between now and Election Day. I’m retaining my pledge not to chime in on political matters (and have been doing a yeoman’s job, if I may say so), but come Election Day, it’s going to be a free-for-all (I will still zip my lips until after the voting is done, but in comments, I know it’s going to be wild).
Some of you were here on November 8, 2016. There were over 5,000 comments that night! I was frantically putting up posts as we kept getting over 500 comments per………..
I’m really looking forward to this place on November 3rd. What comes after…………not so much.
Kind of an interesting look at the disposition toward mail-in ballots, state by state:
In January, progress on the US-China trade deal seemed to calm the trade war between the two countries. However, everything changed when the corona-virus emerged. Since the beginning of the pandemic, demand—and resultant spot price for silver and gold—reached new highs. The stock market fell and rose several times in the hopes and doubts for a vaccine. Although politics and gold bullion might not seem to have much in common, the gold price is inherently tied to political events. After all, it is deemed a safe-haven metal for a reason. So how do current events affect the 9-year high gold price?
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