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 Joe Biden at The Queen theater in Wilmington, Delaware, USA yesterday

Meanwhile…

Via The Federalist:

1. 80 Million Votes

No incumbent president in nearly a century and a half has gained votes in a re-election campaign and still lost. President Trump gained more than ten million votes since his 2016 victory, but Biden’s appeal was so substantial that it overcame President Trump’s record support among minority voters. Biden also shattered Barack Obama’s own popular vote totals, really calling into question whether it was not perhaps Biden who pulled Obama across the finish lines in 2008 and 2012.

2. Winning Despite Losing Most Bellwether Counties

Biden is on his way to winning the White House after having lost almost every historic bellwether county across the country. The Wall Street Journal and The Epoch Times independently analyzed the results of 19 counties around the United States that have nearly perfect presidential voting records over the last 40 years. President Trump won every single bellwether county, except Clallam County in Washington.

3. Biden Trailed Clinton Except in a Select Few Cities

As one pollster put it, in those “big cities in swing states run by Democrats…the vote even exceeded the number of registered voters.” In the states that mattered most, so many mail-in ballots poured in for Biden from the cities that he put up record-breaking numbers and overturned state totals that looked like comfortable leads for President Trump.

4. Biden Won Despite Democrat Losses Everywhere Else

Randy DeSoto noted in The Western Journal that “Donald Trump was pretty much the only incumbent president in U.S. history to lose his re-election while his own party gained seats in the House of Representatives.” Now that’s a Biden miracle!

5. Biden Overcame Trump’s Commanding Primary Vote

In the past, primary vote totals have been remarkably accurate in predicting general election winners. Political analyst David Chapman highlighted before the election…No incumbent who has received 75 percent of the total primary vote has lost re-election. President Trump received 94 percent of the primary vote in 2020.

FIGHT!

5 More Ways Joe Biden Magically Outperformed Election Norms (The Federalist)

AP

Meanwhile…

Um.

Meanwhile….

Live.

Michigan Senate hearing on ‘vote counting issues’.

New TG4 weather men Darren Ó Dubhgain (right) and Donncha Ó Murchú

Ooer.

I feel a warm front.

This afternoon.

Two new presenters have joined TG4’s weather and continuity team creating an even more diverse panel. They are, Darren Ó Dubhgain from Donegal and Dubliner Donncha Ó Murchú. Aimsir TG4 provides the Irish weather service through Irish. Three linear bulletins are broadcast each day and there are more on the station’s website TG4.ie/aimsir as well as its own social media on Twitter @AimsirTG4.

Swooniní agus scórchio.

Pics: Seán Ó Mainnín


This Christmas.

Give The Golden Age of Dublin.

Ronan Carey writes:

You can’t have spent a day in Dublin without ever spying one of the famous “Malton Trail” signs dotted around the capital. These windows into the past show us what some of our most beloved spots looked like nearly two and half centuries ago.

Created and published especially by the Little Museum of Dublin to accompany our exhibition on the works of artist James Malton, this handsome new book serves a miniature biography of a city at the height of its golden age.

The Golden Age Of Dublin

Irish-made stocking fillers to broadsheet@broadsheet.ie with pics and short bio marked ‘Irish-Made Stocking Fillers’.

Free December 19-20?

At Tayto Park, Ashbourne, County Meath.

Ian Collins writes:

Christmas is in the air at Tayto Park, as Ireland’s only theme park and zoo team up with Retro Drive-In Movies to reveal a two-day Christmas movie drive-in weekend on Saturday 19 Sunday, 20 of December….

…Arrive in the car, stay in the car and leave in the car, the Christmas movie drive-in at Tayto Park is safe, socially distanced and the perfect day out to get all the family in the festive spirit! Experience the magic of retro and catch Christmas classics such as Home Alone 1 & 2, The Polar Express, The Santa Claus and more on the big screen and more all from the comfort of your very own car!

Book tickets here

The latest New Yorker magazine with cover by cartoonist Adrian Tomine

Party at the bottom.

Ian Dent writes;

The New Yorker’s covers are so, so good. Always really elegant, saying a lot with very little. They really can’t be praised highly enough…

In fairness.

Aer LIngus is suspending publication of its in-flight magazine Cara

This morning.

Via Independent.ie:

…Cara didn’t have to print in high volume, but it was read by millions of passengers every year, and the production values reflected that. By the end of the month, copies were dog-eared, but hanging in there. And countless passengers will recall pulling fresh copies from seat-backs at the beginning of the month, inhaling that newly-minted whiff as they opened the pages…

Aer Lingus cuts Cara – much-loved magazine put to flight by Covid (Pól Ó Conghaile, Indpendent.ie)