When I was reading NASCAR comments on You Tube I came across several where people were decrying some race announcer saying, "boogity boogity boogity."
Thought, "Where have I heard that word?"
Or -- non-word. All I could think of was,
...Oh yes they call him the Streak
(Boogity, boogity)
He likes to turn the other cheek
(Boogity, boogity)
He's alwayas makin' the news
Wearin' just his tennis shoes
Guess you could call him unique...
"The Streak" -- February 1974 -- a song written, produced, and sung by Ray Stevens. The album was titled Boogity Boogity. The song was a major international hit -- reaching #1 on Billboard Hot 100 and #1 on the UK Singles Chart.
Internet research allowed me to learn: announcer Darrell Waltrip would say, at green-flag time, "Boogity, boogity, boogity -- let's go racing, boys!"
I found an interview on You Tube where he said the catch phrase was indeed lifted from "The Streak" -- and Ray Stevens is a friend of his.
Waltrip says, "A lot of people like it, and a lot of people don't like it. It's hard to please everybody."
(If you go on You Tube to listen to "The Streak," select the video that says 'original.')
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"The Election That Could Break America"
by Barton Gellman
The Atlantic
(continued)
...Trump, in other words, has created a proxy to distinguish friend from foe. Republican lawyers around the country will find this useful when litigating the count. Playing by the numbers, they can treat ballots cast by mail as hostile, just as they do ballots cast in person by urban and college-town voters. Those are the ballots they will contest.
The battle space of the Interregnum, if trends hold true, will be shaped by a phenomenon known as the "blue shift."
Edward Foley, an Ohio State professor of constitutional law and a specialist in election law, pioneered research on the blue shift. He found a previously unremarked-upon pattern in the overtime count--the canvass after Election Night that tallies late-reporting precincts, unprocessed absentee votes, and provisional ballots cast by voters whose eligibility needed to be confirmed.
For most of American history, the overtime count produced no predictably partisan effect. In any given election year, some states shifted red in the canvass after Election Day and some shifted blue, but the shifts were seldom large enough to matter.
Two things began to change about 20 years ago. The overtime count got bigger, and it trended more and more blue. In an updated paper this year, Foley and his co-author, Charles Stewart III of MIT, said they could not fully explain why the shift favors Democrats. (Some factors: Urban returns take longer to count, and most provisional ballots are cast by young, low-income, or mobile voters, who lean blue).
During overtime in 2012, Barack Obama strengthened his winning margins in swing states like Florida (with a net increase of 27,281 votes), Michigan (60,695), Ohio (65,459), and Pennsylvania (26,146). Obama would have won the presidency anyway, but shifts of that magnitude could have changed the outcomes of many a closer contest. Hillary Clinton picked up tens of thousands of overtime votes in 2016, but not enough to save her.
The blue shift has yet to decide a presidential election, but it upended the Arizona Senate race in 2018. Republican Martha McSally seemed to have victory in her grasp with a lead of 15,403 votes the day after Election Day. Canvassing in the days that followed swept the Democrat, Kyrsten Sinema, into the Senate with "a gigantic overtime gain of 71,303 votes," Foley wrote.
It was Florida, however, that seized Trump's attention that year. On Election Night, Republicans were leading in tight contests for governor and U.S. senator. As the blue shift took effect, Ron DeSantis watched his lead shrink by 18,416 votes in the governor's race. Rick Scott's Senate margin fell by 20,231. By early morning on November 12, six days after Election Day, Trump had seen enough.
"The Florida Election should be called in favor of Rick Scott and Ron DeSantis in that large numbers of new ballots showed up out of nowhere, and many ballots are missing or forged," he tweeted, baselessly. "An honest vote count is no longer possible--ballots massively infected. Must go with Election Night!"
Trump was panicked enough by the blue shift in somebody else's election to fabricate allegations of fraud.
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