One thing of note, but we always considered there might be a blue shift. There are a LOT of mail in votes this year, so calling it all on election night anyways was a tall order. A lot of these places count the election day votes before the mail-in votes, so just give it time.
Either way, my disappointment of the trend I am seeing has gotten me low, and I have made a decision, I am cutting out politics.
I will always vote, and I will always vote democratic, but I am setting up to mute twitter of any words of any and all politicians, deleting my Facebook, and likely blocking this forum, as much as I enjoyed talking in it. I will also be deleting all my news shortcuts, and unfollow my funny political reddits. If anything newsworthy happens, I will let my family or my wife tell me.
The fact is the stress of all this has gotten me numb, my gut aches and my hair has gone white. I am a cis white male with a wife and two kids, self-employed, with my own non-Obamacare health insurance, living in a state that has always leaned Republican. I hate to be selfish on this, but Biden or Trump, I am not likely to be effected by it either way on a personal level, and my votes have always been about empathy for those that I feel could get hurt, but I can't take this anymore, and I feel my life will be better if I just cut it out of my life and act like nothing exists outside of my city and my local elections (but again, will always vote democratic in bigger elections even if I go in blind.)
Maybe in a few years, I will come back to it then and hope for the best, but for now, I just can't. I am sorry.