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Close Elections Freeze The USA For Months
It shouldn’t necessarily be like this, but unfortunately it always is.
I just saw this thing in The New York Times on how/why the current national election is so close:
They spend a lot of time on that discussion and try to throw out some “witty barbs” and whatnot, but in reality it’s close because most elections since 1988 have been semi-close, America is really divided, Trump still inspires some people, and Kamala isn’t well-known to casual news observers. Plus, it’s one white guy with name value and one black woman without. Of course it’s going to be close, even if you don’t think it should be on either side.
What often gets ignored in this discussion is how a presumably-close election basically freezes America for 2–3 months beforehand. A few months ago, my friend — a recruiter at a company that would be called “regionally high-growth” — texted me and said her boss was pausing all new hiring until he could “see what was happening with the election.”
