(538) Recounts Rarely Reverse Election Results

[FBaggins]

19. Certainly

I "got" the connection between my user nic and meme's such as "Frodo failed, Bush has the ring!" and it matched how I feel about the latest election - but didn't see it as ironic because I'm not trying to discourage people (at least, not from supporting a couple recounts). I'm entirely in favor of the recounts. I'd like nothing more than to wake up to find that the last two weeks have just been a nightmare.

It just isn't likely to happen. We have some people calling for martial law and a presidential emergency decree suspending the electoral college while the polls are opened back up in several states. We have 100+post threads looking at normal count corrections that cannot possibly be fraud and ranting about them as though they were proof of a stolen election. I'd very much like a return to rationality. I see that as a positive thing... not discouraging.