What is your favorite season of year? Why?
I love the merging of spring/summer when everything comes alive again and the water is warm enough to swim.
However, this year, I’m really looking forward to
Election Season
I grabbed hold of a wild idea I found running through my head and crunched the presidential primary numbers for 2024 to see if I could catch a glimpse of what‘s to come on November 5th.
God winked at me in the results:
Trump 316 to Biden 222
Let me tell you how I got these numbers.
Using The New York Times, I researched the total vote counts state by state for each presidential candidate.
TRUMP WINS
- Alabama T-499,147 B-168,080
- Arizona T-492,299 B-375,110
- Arkansas T-204,898 B-71,978
- Colorado T-555,863 B-477,365
- Georgia T-497,594 B-276,141
- Hawaii T-4,348 B-1,047
- Idaho T-33,603 B-2,297
- Iowa T-56,243 B-12,337
- Kansas T-72,115 B-35,906
- Kentucky T-215,044 B-131,449
- Louisiana T-172,503 B-143,380
- Maine T-78,493 B-58,950
- Michigan T-758,612 B-623,331
- Minnesota T-232,846 B-171,278
- Montana T-165,437 B-94,497
- Nebraska T-167,309 B-84,113
- New Hampshire T-176,392 B-79,455
- North Carolina T-793,978 B-609,680
- North Dakota T-1,632 B-840
- Ohio T-896,059 B-461,558
- Oklahoma T-254,928 B-66,882
- South Carolina T-452,496 B-126,336
- Tennessee T-446,850 B-122,803
- Texas T-1,808,269 B-831,247
- Virginia T-440,416 B-317,329
- West Virginia T-199,349 B-68,098
BIDEN WINS
- California T-1,962,905 B-3,207,687
- Connecticut T-34,750 B-55,533
- Illinois T-476,217 B-729,877
- Massachusetts T-343,189 B-533,096
- Maryland T-220,493 B-591,105
- Nevada T-59,984 B-119,758
- New Mexico T-78,912 B-110,399
- New York T-132,698 B-288,138
- Pennsylvania T-792,692 B-945,712
- Rhode Island T-10,898 B-21,336
- Utah T-48,350 B-59,235
- Vermont T-33,162 B-56,924
- Washington T-601,070 B-763,739
- Wisconsin T-477,103 B-512,379
I discovered ten states where one or both primaries were canceled uncontested or taken by caucus vote, so I divided them by who won them in 2020.
TRUMP WINS
- Alaska
- Florida
- Indiana
- Missouri
- Mississippi
- South Dakota
- Wyoming
BIDEN WINS
- Delaware
- New Jersey
- Oregon
Then, I calculated the electoral votes for each candidate according to states won.
TRUMP WINS
- 09 Alabama
- 03 Alaska
- 11 Arizona
- 06 Arkansas
- 10 Colorado
- 30 Florida
- 16 Georgia
- 04 Hawaii
- 04 Idaho
- 11 Indiana
- 06 Iowa
- 06 Kansas
- 08 Kentucky
- 08 Louisiana
- 04 Maine
- 15 Michigan
- 10 Minnesota
- 06 Mississippi
- 10 Missouri
- 04 Montana
- 05 Nebraska
- 04 New Hampshire
- 16 North Carolina
- 03 North Dakota
- 17 Ohio
- 07 Oklahoma
- 09 South Carolina
- 03 South Dakota
- 11 Tennessee
- 40 Texas
- 13 Virginia
- 04 West Virginia
- 03 Wyoming
BIDEN WINS
- 54 California
- 07 Connecticut
- 03 DC
- 03 Delaware
- 19 Illinois
- 10 Maryland
- 11 Massachusetts
- 06 Nevada
- 14 New Jersey
- 05 New Mexico
- 28 New York
- 08 Oregon
- 19 Pennsylvania
- 04 Rhode Island
- 06 Utah
- 03 Vermont
- 12 Washington
- 10 Wisconsin
And voila!
Trump 316 to Biden 222
From my spirit to God’s, let it be so.
Trump/Vance 2024
For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
John 3:16
And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat.
In the midst of the street of it, and on either side of the river, was there the tree of life, which bare twelve manner of fruits, and yielded her fruit every month: and the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations.
Poet Cea 