It has now been a month and a day since the 2020 presidential election. According to Bing News former Vice President Joseph Biden received 81,009,468 votes. Donald J. Trump's campaign netted him 74,111.419 ballots. Both are record numbers.
As we all are painfully aware, even at this late date, The Big Orange Guy is screeching the election was corrupted by massive acts of fraud. His logic seems to be no one can get over 74 million votes and still lose. Well, either that, or there is no way 80 plus million people won't buy into his con. He has sent out an army of lawyers to places such as Georgia, Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Arizona, and Nevada. So far judges and election officials, many who are republicans, in all those states have pretty much come to the same conclusion--the President's attorneys are full of shit and Mr. Trump is quite possibly insane.
Lost in the fog of Trump's denial and Biden's quiet confidence is the fact they weren't the only people running for the highest office in the land. That's right, Microsoft lists at least 26 other souls who paid their money and took the ride.
Many weren't listed on ballots in every state, but each and every one of them, including Princess Jacob-Fambro and President R19 Boddie received votes.
Who says America isn't great?
Lesser known than perhaps Kanye West and Jesse, The Body, Ventura who also ran, libertarian standard bearer, Jo Jorgensen came in third place nationally. She pulled in nearly two million votes, worth 1.18% of the total vote, or not quite a third of Joe Biden's margin of victory.
Speaking of West and Ventura, they received 66,234 and 2,673 votes respectively. West was listed as an independent while Ventura appeared as a green party candidate. The Body's poor showing might have been due to not only a lack of campaigning, but a schism among the greens. A second green candidate, Howie Hawkins was on ballots and he got 397,666 votes which translated into 0.25 of the popular total.
Although listed as an independent. Phil Collins (no, not the musician) represented the oldest continuously active third party in the United States. He ran on the prohibition party ticket. Just as it always has the prohibition party's main goal is to end the sale and consumption of alcoholic beverages in America. Their mascot is a red, white, and blue camel. Mr. Collins received 4,834 votes.
Don Blankenship, a former coal company CEO garnered 59,847 votes as he headed up the constitution party, while, "None of these candidates," pulled in 14,079.
There are others. Brock Pierce, who as a child appeared in Disney's, "Mighty Ducks," franchise, received 48,555 votes while Bill Hammons the proud founder of the unity party ran as its candidate and piled up 6,677.
Coming in dead last in all this was the dynamic ticket of Zachary Scalf and running mate, Matthew Lyda. Information on Mr. Scalf is extremely limited, although one source reports a Facebook campaign site features, "lots of big guns." The Scalf team landed 29 votes. Total.
That would be 466 less than Ms. Jacob-Fambro and 1,096 fewer that Mr. President R19 Boddie. Mr. Boddie was inspired to run when God spoke to him as he lounged on his sofa. His foreign policy included merging the United States and Israel, while, "inheriting," other parts of the globe.
Luckily he never caught the ear of Don Trump.
Yes, that's the final wrap up for the 2020 election, unless, of course, Rudy Giuliani and Sidney Powell release the Kraken they've been promising over the last month.
Luckily we're still waiting on that beast.
12-4-20
We definitely live in interesting times.
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