United States of Adelson

If you put your money on a Donald Trump upset special, you might still cash in big. Bloomberg reports that the Biden-Harris campaign is blowing it in battleground states like Pennsylvania and Florida. The short version is that black and Latino voters are staying home in droves, little has been done in the form of old-fashioned retail politics and the Biden team is relying on the discredited Hillary Clinton playbook. Hopefully vote-counting will be relatively swift and we’ll be put out of our uncertainty in 48 hours or so. (Axios reports that Trump plans to declare victory regardless of the ultimate outcome.) If you’ve been inundated with pro-GOP campaign commercials, you can thank Sheldon Adelson, who is richer than God. It must be nice to be able to simply buy a government of your own choosing, right Shel? We’d all do it if we had that kind of diñero. ($32 billion net worth.) As Center for Responsive Politics director Sheila Krumholz told the Guardian, “Somehow, promises to change the culture in Washington or ‘drain the swamp’ fade away when the usual mega-donors line up to throw millions at the election. It’s a seasonal amnesia.”