In just four weeks, voters from all corners of this bitterly divided country will cast their votes for the man who will either become or remain America’s next president. Pollsters, pundits, and politicos have obsessed over the ever-shifting electoral map and how a handful of swing counties and states could decide whether President Donald Trump or former Vice President Joe Biden will be named the nation’s commander in chief in what is shaping up to be the most contentious election ever.
There’s a head-spinning number of variables at play: the continuing coronavirus crisis, a struggling economy, a reckoning on systemic racial issues and police violence, increasing crime in big cities, and, most recently, the pitched fight over replacing Ruth Bader Ginsburg on the Supreme Court.