One of our favorite songs was Bad Moon Rising written by John Fogerty and performed by Creedence Clearwater Revival. The actual lyrics, appropriate with the election just around the corner, are as follows:

I hear hurricanes a-blowin’
I know the end is comin’ soon
I fear rivers overflowin’
I hear the voice of rage and ruin

Don’t go around tonight
Well, it’s bound to take your life
There’s a bad moon on the rise

My wife and I became convinced that the real words being sung weren’t “There’s a bad moon on the rise,” but rather “There’s a bathroom on the right.” Go ahead, listen to the song, and decide for yourself. We even called in to a local DJ in Grand Rapids, Michigan and he laughed and said he thought we were right.

Either way next Tuesday is going to be pretty scary. All of the signs point to Trump winning, but many of us have bad memories of 2020 where miraculous late night ballot drops put Joe Biden in the White House. At the time it was hard to imagine over 80 million people voting for Joe Biden. It is still hard to believe more than 80 million people voting for Joe Biden. One thing is certain, next Tuesday a whole lot of people are going to vote for Kamala Harris. We just better hope that enough people vote for Donald Trump to make the margin too large for Democrats to overcome with “creative votes.” 

One thing is certain, all of the recent polls show Harris decline and Trump surging. All of them show an election too close to call. Republicans are definitely showing up more in early voting than in prior years. In addition, Republicans have registered a lot more voters than in prior years. Those are significant factors.

More importantly, less than 1/3 of Americans think the country is on the right track. Kamala Harris has repeatedly said she wouldn’t do anything different than Joe Biden. Even more importantly, Trump is far more popular than the MSM realizes. That picture of him standing with his fist in the air, saying fight, after narrowingly avoiding a would-be assassins, bullet was incredible. So was the picture of him sitting in a garbage truck, grinning, after Joe Biden called all Trump supporters garbage. In the meantime, Kamala Harris is flopping back and forth between apologizing and calling Trump a Nazi threat to democracy. This is definitely not a good look.

At this point, all we can do is vote and wait. When you think about it, it is beyond incredible. Perhaps the most important election in our lifetime and all we can do is wait for the results. A lot of us are hoping for a Trump victory but terrified at the thought that so many of our fellow citizens (and if you believe the rumors – non-citizens) are prepared to vote for Kamala Harris to be President of the United States. Are there really this many people who can or perhaps more accurately, will not see the obvious? What, exactly, about her is appealing, other than she is not Donald Trump?

We all better hope we are not seeing a bad moon on the rise, or we will definitely need that bathroom on the right.

TDM