I just put a little shredded cheese on my second baked potato of the day and I'm praying my stomach accepts this gift.

I wish you joy of your cheese, msbelle

Timelies all!

Tomorrow is my telework day, so I am going to vote in the morning. I stopped by a nearby early voting place yesterday after work, but the line was too long. Tomorrow I'll at least have the time to wait.

Over 46% of registered voters have voted in NC already, about 2/3 by early voting rather than absentee ballots.

Calli, that's great! (I should poke my brother and SIL in Lexington, make sure they've got a plan to vote if they haven't already.) Washington was at 48% of registered voters' ballots returned as of 5 pm yesterday; this time four years ago it was 22%.

I have been telling people that if they're coming into town, the dropbox at the school district administration building is not that far out of your way - it's two blocks northwest if you're going to Safeway - and the county's picking up daily.

msbelle, may the cheese lie easy on your digestive system.

I feel a bit more optimistic reading here -- my steady talk news people (Boston Public Radio, the ones that offered fund-raising masks that read 'Coverage You Can Trust') were extremely gloomy today.

(unless she ends up in Biden's Cabinet).

Warren can't go to the Cabinet because Massachusetts has a Republican Governor, and he could replace her with a Republican Senator.

M's mom came to me asked if I could find out where early voting was locally and if I was planning on it. So we are going to go tomorrow and drag M with us. I don't know how his Mom will vote, I know at one point she wasn't going to vote for Trump (she voted for him last election) but then said she was going to write in M's name. I'm not going to ask her. I think she is goin got vote for Harrison.

I know McConnell will probably win. I figure the only way to get him out of power without him dying is for the Senate to flip.

But I think that the GOP will do everything they can , every underhanded legal trick, using all the judges they have in place to try and take the election if it doesn't go their way.

Warren can't go to the Cabinet because Massachusetts has a Republican Governor, and he could replace her with a Republican Senator.

The state legislature would just change the law again. They have no shame, and for this I'm grateful.

The GOP has done exactly zilch for the common man, woman and child for the last four decades. I want the party to fall, fail, die, and cease to be. I'm not all Dems all the time, in fact I'd love for there to be a classic, realistic old-style Republican party that believes in service, but in a more conservative and considered way, to balance the Dems. I just don't want it to be tainted with the Republican title anymore.

Pipe dreams, I know.

I hope the cheese agrees with you, msbelle.

ITA, Beverly. I think of so many sane Republicans I knew in my youth. They are surely rolling over in their graves at what has become of their party. We disagreed on how things should be accomplished, but they weren't without souls.