Election anxiety: Democrat or Republican, Americans are feeling it
Like millions of other Americans, Michelle Deininger has found herself deeply frazzled about the presidential election this November.
A stay-at-home mother and self-described RINO, or “Republican in name only” living in Park City, Utah, she notes how the global pandemic, reeling economy, and ongoing eruption of civic unrest following the killings of George Floyd and others have now also become the nerve-wracking backdrop to one of the most momentous elections in her lifetime.
“I’m 52 and I’ve been voting since I turned 18, and I have never, not for a fraction of a second in my entire life, worried about the security and validity of an election until now,” says Ms. Deininger, a lifelong Democrat from Boston who switched parties two years ago to have a voice in her new Republican-dominated state. “And that’s just such a foreign, eerie, un-American feeling.”
Across the political spectrum, a host of Americans have been expressing similar anxieties, not only about the pivotal choice
How the economy looks to youHow the pandemic has been managedHaving a voting planBipartisan fraud, if any at all
