I voted today

[mellowtigger]

I voted just now!  I'm very happy to report that a single poll worker, the lady who helped me feed my completed paper ballot into the machine, was wearing a mask.  It was just a well-fitting cloth mask (maybe custom N95?), unlike my plastic N95 respirator, but I told her "And thanks for the mask" as I left.  :)

I took the micro-route bus out to the local library, but I didn't want to wait another 20+ minutes for a ride back, so I walked home. Slowly. With a small limp. But I made it fine in the cold light rain.

Watching the result demographics this year will be fascinating.

• Trump helped overturn Roe v Wade, so his candidacy is a hard sell for many women.
• Harris helped incarcerate many black men (even if it's just by association while supporting prosecutors), so her candidacy is a hard sell for many black men.  That's why Obama helped specifically target black men with advertisements to convince them to vote for Harris.
• Both administrations totally mishandled the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, and neither treats climate as an emergency, so that's a hard sell for me and other special-issue fringe voters.

Yes, the demographics this year will be fascinating.  Regardless of your vote choices, let's all celebrate the fact that the advertising mailers, phone calls, and television segments will finally END!  Yay!

Comments

[darkoshi]

I've had hardly any paper mailings (one for a school board candidate is all I recall)(though many emails), no phone calls (perhaps since I don't answer unknown numbers; but no left messages either), and haven't been watching much TV.
So that aspect of it hasn't bothered me this time.
I haven't even been getting political ads on Youtube, now that I think of it.