Hello Iolo/Penderyn,
Over here we've just finished a very strict fortnight meant to stop the second epidemic of the lurgy, but we won't get the result for another fortnight. Let's hope it works. We are still not letting the English come in, so it might.
Have the restrictions been dropped in the duration?
I would hope it is a 'wait and see' approach. That would seem wiser.
Funny, we don't use the term 'fortnight' here. I haven't heard it in so long I had to look it up. Thanks for bringing your perspective. I love learning, even if it is something I had previously known and forgotten. I wish I could say learn something once, got it forever; but that isn't the reality. More like use it or lose it.
One of the things that was talked about in the election lead-up was wondering if the difference in the campaign styles would affect the outcome.
The Biden people were all being very considerate to not spread the virus. No door knocking, no large in-person rallies.
The Trump people blew that all off and did the usual ground game.
I think we got our answer.
If the Biden people had conducted an aggressive ground game campaign, the results may have better reflected the polling.
I think a big part of the reason the election results don't match the polling is because of the Biden virtual campaign.
Democrats are going to pay a big price for that because huge Democratic gains down ticket would have given Democrats a bigger say in the redistricting process which only takes place every decade.
Democrats got the poop end of the stick in that process in 2010 because we were in the middle of the big stinkeroo over our health care reform.
And now it has happened again because we didn't want to kill people with a ground game election campaign during a deadly worldwide pandemic.
Silly us!
There is a political price to be exacted for caring about people's well-being.
