SHORT TAKES ON THE DRIFTING WRECKAGE – AT 11:55 P.M. ET: 

NOW THE POLITICAL BLOOD FLOWS – FROM FOX:  As two Democratic strongholds in Florida continue to report votes days after Election Day, Senate candidate Rick Scott filed a lawsuit late Thursday against Brenda Snipes, the embattled Broward County Supervisor of Elections, alleging that she is illegally refusing to provide any information about the number of ballots cast or counted in Broward County.  The bombshell litigation comes hours after Florida GOP Sen. Marco Rubio, in an extraordinary series of tweets that alleged incompetence if not outright complicity by Florida officials, charged that Democratic lawyers were "descending on" the state in a calculated attempt to "change the results" and "try and steal" races for Senate and agriculture commissioner.  A recount now appears imminent not only in Scott's race, but also Florida's high-profile gubernatorial contest between Democrat Andrew Gillum and Republican Ron DeSantis, based on new vote totals -- even though Gillum has already conceded.  Strange things are indeed happening in the vote count in Florida.  The center of action is Broward County, just north of Miami.  Corruption in Broward is a fine art.  Votes appear and disappear according to need.  It is more than conceivable that results announced right after the election – Republican Scott winning the Senate seat and Republican DeSantis winning the governorship – could be reversed.  The lawyers are descending.  Court challenges are almost certain.  This can go on for weeks.  We sense the rising fury in Republican circles, and the real fear of a major steal.  Meanwhile, some press outlets are, of course, lining up behind the Democrats. 

AND, SADLY, ARIZONA – FROM CNN:   Democratic US Rep. Kyrsten Sinema has pulled slightly ahead of Republican Rep. Martha McSally in the close race for US Senate in Arizona.  As of a few minutes before 8 p.m. ET Thursday, Sinema held a slim lead with 49.1% of the vote, while McSally was right behind with 48.6% of the vote, with 83% of the vote reported, CNN results show. Nearly 9,000 votes separate McSally from Sinema.  Sinema's lead comes after roughly 127,000 votes in Maricopa County -- the state's most populous county, which includes Phoenix -- were counted Thursday. Thousands of votes still remain to be counted in the state.  Individual counties in Arizona will continue to update their vote counts periodically until ballots are certified.  It appears that most of the still uncounted votes come from Democratic areas, but we can never be sure.  What a sadness it would be if Sinema, a certified flake, becomes senator from Arizona instead of the patriot and combat veteran, Martha McSally.  Leftist Democrats will have their heroine.

WHAT DID WE EXPECT? – FROM AMERICAN THINKER:   CBS News last night went all in for the identity politics advocacy, highlighting the numbers of women elected to the new incoming House, which was won by the Democrats. The idea of course was to paint Republicans by implication as racist and sexist, and promote Democrats as the only party of 'inclusion.'  It's drivel - and with CBS's exclusion of Southern California's first Korean-American congresswoman, Young Kim, it was obviously a selectively edited report.  Young's problem, see, is that she's a Republican who defeated a Democrat, and that doesn't quite fit the "narrative." So despite being the first Korean-American congresswoman, she got left out of the story.  As the Stalinists did it, she's a "non-person."  And that's the way the left plays the game.  I hope these women enjoy their moment in the Sun, for they will be discarded as soon as they outlive their usefulness to the "movement."

November 8,  2018