[QUOTE=Dr Sardonicus;562499]Of course, the reference to the golden fiddle changing hands seemed to refer to [i]The Devil Went Down the Georgia[/i] but I don't see how it pertains to the present situation.[/QUOTE]The unbeatable pompous one is beaten and eventually must reluctantly admit defeat and hand over something they value.
I think that fits just a tiny bit.

[QUOTE=Uncwilly;562503] eventually must reluctantly admit defeat [/QUOTE]

Trump will *never* admit defeat.

[QUOTE=Prime95;562508]Trump will *never* admit defeat.[/QUOTE]
How will the change of power happen then?

Without him admitting it, of course.

Delusion can be a powerful thing.

[QUOTE=Uncwilly;562511][QUOTE=Prime95;562508]Trump will *never* admit defeat.[/QUOTE]How will the change of power happen then?[/QUOTE]The details would depend to some extent on how big a temper tantrum he or his cult followers throw, but -- assuming he is not declared the winner -- the change of power [i]will[/i] happen. It might be amusing to contemplate his being literally dragged, kicking and screaming, from the White House, but I don't really want to see anything like that happen. And I sure as heck don't want to see his cult followers go berserk, but if they do, they do.

I am actually more worried about what might happen if the Supremes declare that hundreds of thousands of cast votes "don't count."

Trying to think of refusals to concede actually having happened...

Matt Bevin initially refused to concede in the 2019 race for Governor of Kentucky after the count showed he'd lost by around 5000 votes. He requested a recanvass. It was done. It didn't chenge the outcome. [i]Then[/i] he conceded, and Andy Beshear was inaugurated in December.

In the 1972 race for Cook County State's Attorney, incumbent Ed Hanrahan AFAIK never did concede to Bernard Carey. Carey took office anyway. (Three weeks before Christmas 1969, a police raid on an apartment, organized by Hanrahan's office, had ended with Black Panther leaders Fred Hampton and Mark Clark being gunned down in their beds. A few days later, the Chicago [i]Tribune[/i] (in)famously published a story with photographs showing "bullet holes" which "proved" the apartment's occupants had been shooting at the police. Unfortunately, further scrutiny revealed that the "bullet holes" were in fact nail heads. Oops.)

There is a reasonably well known case of an appointed (not elected) Cabinet official refusing to leave office when fired by the President. In 1868, Secretary of War Edwin Stanton was fired by President Andrew Johnson, but barricaded himself in his office for about two months. Johnson was impeached for violating the Tenure in Office Act, but was acquitted at his Senate trial, by a single vote.

[indent][b]REPUBLIC,[/b] [i]n.[/i] A nation in which, the thing governing and the thing governed being the same, there is only a permitted authority to enforce an optional obedience. In a republic, the foundation of public order is the ever lessening habit of submission inherited from ancestors who, being truly governed, submitted because they had to. There are as many kinds of republics as there are graduations between the despotism whence they came and the anarchy whither they lead.[/indent]-- Ambrose Bierce, [u]The Devil's Dictionary[/u]

[QUOTE=storm5510;562497][QUOTE=Dr Sardonicus;562492]"Georgia On My Mind" is being billed as the [URL="https://hiphopwired.com/927297/john-legend-georgia-on-my-mind/"]opening act[/URL] while the fat lady warms up.[/QUOTE]Sung by Willie Nelson, of course. :grin:[/QUOTE]Here you go, on YouTube from [url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SfDVv1ASJ3M][i]Stardust[/i] (1978)[/url].

[QUOTE=kladner;562440][URL]https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/nov/05/trump-should-have-lost-in-a-landslide-the-fact-that-he-didnt-speaks-volumes[/URL][QUOTE]<snip>
Florida voters, even as they selected Donald Trump, also opted to increase the state’s minimum wage to $15 an hour. The Democrats do not need to propose insipid half-measures when the data indicates that the public are fully on board with a progressive agenda.[/QUOTE]<snip>[/QUOTE]
OTOH, "Red-baiting" rhetoric seems to have helped the R's in Florida. According to [url=https://www.peoplesworld.org/article/trumps-anti-communism-worked-but-only-in-miami/]People's World[/url] ("Continuing the Daily Worker"),[quote]Anti-communist rhetoric was consistently aimed at the Cuban exile community—and the entire country—by Trump and the GOP, especially in the last stretch of the 2020 campaign. At the Republican National Convention, Cuban-American businessman Maximo Alvarez was put on stage to praise Trump for standing against "the forces of anarchy and communism." He even implied Biden might be "possessed by the ghost of Fidel Castro."

The same messaging has also been used by Republicans to harvest votes from wealthier (and often whiter) immigrants from Venezuela, Nicaragua, and other nations who oppose socialist or left-leaning governments in their home countries. The number of eligible Venezuelan voters in Florida grew by 184% in the ten-year period from 2008 to 2018. Though still a small group overall, their politics largely mirror those of Cuban-Americans.

"Biden is indeed underperforming here [Florida], and the most logical explanation is the movement on the part of ... Cubans, Nicaraguans, Venezuelans but also other South Americans who were very susceptible to the Republican message about socialism," Eduardo Gamarra, another professor at Miami's FIU, told ABC.[/quote]

The results are in:
[url]https://www.npr.org/2020/11/07/928803493/biden-wins-presidency-according-to-ap-edging-trump-in-turbulent-race[/url]

Trump is making liberals cry again:

[url]https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/video/2020/nov/07/cnn-van-jones-tears-joe-biden-us-election[/url]

Yes, Mr. Frodo.

It's over now.