The Patriot Post® · Wednesday Short Cuts

Upright: “The American polling industry is broken. Either intentionally broken or out of incompetence broken. It was still showing an 8- to 10-point national lead for Biden Tuesday morning. Many pollsters were reporting a blue-wave landslide. That’s not happening.” —Gary Bauer

Political futures: “GOP holds the Senate, makes gains in the House, flips one state legislative House and holds its others. That’s not a bad night even if the White House slips away. They’ll be able to redistrict now too.” —Erick Erickson

For the record I: “Democracy needed a landslide, a cleansing. It won’t get it. Even if Biden wins, we’ve lost something tonight.” —Ron Fournier

For the record II: “Democrats in Washington are waking up to an abject disaster, and there’s no other way to explain this.” —Politico’s Jake Sherman

World’s smallest violin: “We wanted to see a repudiation of this direction for the country. And the fact that it’s this close I think — it hurts. It just hurts.” —Van Jones

Braying jackass: “What scares people is that if … somehow [the Trump campaign stumbles] into the Supreme Court. Do any of you guys trust Uncle Clarence and Amy Coney Barrett and those guys to actually follow the letter of the law?” —MSNBC’s Joy Reid

Alpha jackass: “This is about white people who saw a president who was corrupt and sexist and violent and mismanaged an entire pandemic that’s killed over 230,000 people by the election and they said, ‘I want some more of that.’” —MSNBC contributor Jason Johnson

Race bait: “If Trump wins re-election, it’s on white people. No one else.” —Jemele Hill (Actually, Trump expanded his margins with blacks, Hispanics, and Asians.) 

Leftmedia personified: “[Florida] is a state that has been increasingly difficult for Democrats to win in statewide. You can feel the hopes and the dreams of our viewers falling down, and you can hear liquor cabinets opening all across this great land.” —MSNBC’s Nicolle Wallace

Village idiot: “It’s insane what our fears are if we lose, compared to their fears if Biden wins. like we will prob all die or be handmaids and they’re worried about bathroom safety.” —Chrissy Teigen

And last… “Imagine what [today] would be looking like if media hadn’t lied about Trump for four+ years. Heck, if they had been merely honest about how close this race was in the last four months rather than pushing fraudulent polls.” —Mollie Hemingway