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NRaleighLiberal

(60,014 posts) Mon Nov 2, 2020, 02:15 PM Nov 2020

I guess the real October surprise is that half of the country is in COVID outbreak territory

25 states - the coasts are doing reasonably OK, but the center of the country....argggh

https://covidactnow.org/?s=1231303

This will certainly be the first election in the throes of a pandemic.

That 40 or so % of the country will still vote for a major contributor to the mess we are in is shocking and embarrassing.