Originally, this column was going to begin with the observation that, with the two Senate runoffs concluding in Georgia on Tuesday and Congress taking up the Electoral College results on Wednesday, the 2020 election campaign will finally be over. Then the nightmares started. What if one or both Georgia contests are close enough to require recounts? After all, the state is as evenly divided as any in the country, both races are awfully close, the stakes are so high, and politics has certainly become litigious enough that it could happen. And what if the effort by something like 140 House Republicans and as many as a dozen GOP senators to delay acceptance of the Electoral College results succeeds, even if only for another day or two? Either prospect sends chills down the spine. For that matter, what over the last five years has gone as it “should have”?