9 November—All that can be said of yesterday’s overall election result is that it could have been worse—for the right, the left, and the wrong.

The wrong, of course, naturally suggests Donald Trump, for whom the liberal media claim that last night was a disaster. While the grifter-in-chief didn’t manage to pull off yet another monstrous con, don’t count him out. Even if he simultaneously crapped and peed his Omar-original sumo-tailored chinos, he wouldn’t be embarrassed and he’d put the blame on the diaper (nappy for the benefit of pommies) he wasn’t wearing. Seventy million benighted souls fell for his bullshit last time around, after all.

In Connecticut it was a case of the more things change the more they stay the same. Except that things didn’t change in the Land of Steady Habits; and now the reality is that a Democratic Hartford trifecta—constitutional officers, state senate, state house—that has proved itself to be more incompetent as the years pass has become even more firmly entrenched, so we can count on things becoming even worse.

The Fifth Congressional between incumbent Democrat Jahana Hayes and Republican hopeful George Logan is still too close to call, with fewer than 1,300 votes separating them. Hayes will probably win, but since the GOP will likely take over a slim House majority, it’s nothing to worry about.

Leora Levy deserved to lose big to incumbent Senator Richie Blumenthal. No more need be said about Connecticut’s Peppermint Patty.

Bob Stefanowski predictably failed to unseat reigning King Ned Lamont. If Bob had, among other little things, actually repudiated Donald Trump, I have no doubt that he’d have had a much better chance of winning the race.

Litchfield’s local races for legislators and probate judges went the right (i.e., correct and Republican)—and predicted—way. Unfortunately, the spigot for early voting has been opened. And, for better or worse, the results aren’t in yet for the Litchfield ballot measure to allow the sale of recreational pot.

That naturally takes us to a comment received from an astute reader yesterday, alluding to the Annual Election Day message: “How is it that France can count paper ballots in one day. Granted a population of only 68 million but four days for one county in Arizona and two weeks in Pennsylvania, how is that possible?”

Simply put, who the hell knows? In little Litchfield, for instance, a few thousand votes for or against the pot business should have been counted within a few hours of polls closing last night. In the good old days of electro-mechanical voting machines they would have been counted. Guaranteed. Including absentee ballots. And that tallying is still incomplete isn’t the fault of voting or clerical officials. Or computers.

Blame things that make voting too easy—that’s right, voting shouldn’t be too easy—like early voting and same-day voter registration, which complicate ballot counting beyond reason. Of course, every state makes its own voting laws within the broad parameters of the well-intended Reconstruction-era Fifteenth Amendment and lots of silly legislation growing out of it, invariably perpetrated by liberals pandering for support. But that’s for another time.

Right now, to get back to the likely GOP 118^th Congressional House majority, What committee chairmanship will those assholes give to Marjorie Taylor Greene?