Huh. Apparently I've achieved the dubious honor... (Update: and a THANK YOU to the dKos community!)

...of being “internet famous” enough that Trumpsters who are apparently spying on #NeverTrump conservatives are now “ratting them out” for forwarding tweets to...me.

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@IngrahamAngle@LifeZette@realDonaldTrump▪️Laura Ingram: FYI..Rick Wilson is forwarding pics of your tweets to @charles_gaba▪️

— Deplorable TracyKhan (@TracyLeeKhan) November 6, 2016

 Honestly not sure what to make of this development, actually.

Oh, in case you’re wondering what he forwarded: Wilson tweeted out the following:

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Hahahahahahahahaahhahahahahahahahahahah breathe hahahahahahahahahahahhahahaha breathe hahahahahahahahahahahhahahaha https://t.co/X0CNUt7tMb

— Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) November 6, 2016

 ...but I couldn’t read Ingraham’s original tweet since she had blocked me awhile back, so he obliged:

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@charles_gabapic.twitter.com/kfr8TAOxtP

— Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) November 6, 2016

As an aside, last night I attended my final campaign candidate meet & greet event, hosted by the Islamic Association of Greater Detroit.

I sat with a Muslim American, two fellow Jews, an Irish Catholic and a part-black, part-Native American woman as we all enjoyed a Thanksgiving-style turkey/stuffing dinner.

That's what America is all about.

For the record: No, my opponent didn't show up.

Highlight of the evening? The moderator of the event turned out to be a guy I graduated from high school with!

In other last-minute campaign-related news:

I handed out my very last piece of campaign literature last night.

Since I’m out of handouts anyway (not due to lack of funds; I simply underestimated how many to have printed up!), I’m joining a massive #GOTV for Hillary event this afternoon.

On the other hand, I still have a good 30 or so lawn signs left. I suppose I could hand those out while canvassing, claiming them to simply be “oversized campaign lit”…

Speaking of lawn signs: Until the past few days, it was pretty rare for voters to agree to post a sign when I was out canvassing...but in the past 2 days, 5 households requested one. I’m not sure how much of this has to do with the race heating up in the final days (“sign wars”...your neighbor puts up a GOP sign, so you put up a Dem sign...) and how much of it is simply people figuring that they’ll only have to have to clutter up their lawn for 72 hours or so at this point...

30% of all registered voters in my district have received absentee ballots. 22% have already voted absentee, and that doesn’t include whatever absentee ballots are sent in over the weekend/Monday.

Also: While I’m at it, I might as well turn this into my pre-election Thank You diary:

Thanks in large part to the Daily Kos community, I’ve raised over $12,000 for my long shot County Commissioner race here in Mitt Romney’s hometown, the heavily Republican area of Bloomfield Hills/Bloomfield Township/Birmingham, Michigan.

243 individuals have donated an average of about $50 apiece. My final lit piece was sent out a few days ago (Oh, by the way...I decided not to go with the heavy-duty “Trump” piece, but instead simply threw in my opponent’s support of Trump as an extra bullet point in my normal “bio/issues” piece).

I’m spending the remaining few hundred bucks on a Facebook campaign and some incidentals (including additional thank you cards...some of you might not have received one yet because I ran out a few weeks ago!)

I’ve knocked on about 2,000 doors (which might sound impressive except that there’s about 22,000 households in the district) and have sent out over 23,000 lit pieces. There’s about 100 lawn signs with my name plastered across it scattered around the district. I’ll continue door-knocking right up until the 8th.

So, what are my odds of pulling this off?

Honestly...not great. Any other year this would be a pure symbolic run, with perhaps a 1% chance of winning (and that would be based on the possibility of a major scandal/health issue with my opponent).

This year? With the Trump effect (and my running a reasonably “real” campaign)? I’d put my odds at perhaps 10% or so.

What’s amazing is that my chances would probably have stayed under 5% if my opponent, Shelley Taub, hadn’t insisted on not only endorsing Donald Trump back in June, but on sticking with him even today. So be it. It’s a crazy year, anything can happen and all that.

Anyway, before things get too crazy as we enter the final countdown, I just wanted to say “thank you” to everyone here at dKos who’s been so supportive of both my current campaign as well as, of course, the ACA Signups project.