The waiting is the hardest part

It's Biden's to lose, but he can still lose.

As I was going to bed last night, I was trying to make peace with the likelihood that Donald Trump had won re-election as President of the United States. And then Fox News called Arizona for Biden. (They retracted it, but it looks like Biden has indeed flipped a key state that went for Trump in 2016.)

When I woke up this morning, there were some more signs that Biden may eke out a narrow victory. He won Minnesota, which Trump had high hopes of turning red, and leads in Nevada and - more importantly - Wisconsin. He’s still behind in Michigan and Pennsylvania, but the mail-in ballots yet to be counted should favor him. And in a very pleasant surprise, Georgia, which I had pretty much written off last night, remains very much in play.

There’s no silver lining without a dark cloud, of course. It looks like the GOP will hold on to the Senate, so the United States is in for four more years of gridlock no matter who is elected President. And Trump, true to form, is already declaring v…