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Jessica Goodheart: This is the pandemic election. The pandemic itself really laid bare the extent of economic inequality in our country. Some people are doing okay while others, incl on front line, have lost their jobs.
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Jessica Goodheart: The circumstances shifted Biden's platform. He became more of a candidate who was about change. People have expressed disappointment that the blue tsunami doesn't seem to have happened.
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Jessica Goodheart: I wonder if not being able to do the normal election door-to-door part affected this election, but we still had a record turnout even without that part of the process.
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Jessica Goodheart: Now there's an entire genre of books on why we're so polarized in this country.
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Jessica Goodheart: I think we're still in the early days of unpacking what this election will look like. I was watching Georgia.
Rick: Yes. Imagine if everyone in GA had been allowed to vote.
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Jessica Goodheart: One of the interesting things about this polarization is, while looking at the exit polls, the differences between Trump & Biden voters isn't really grounded in facts. Trump bragged about the pre-COVID economy being the best ever.
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Jessica Goodheart: We looked at the counties Trump visited at the end of his campaign--income growth slowed under his watch. Other key promises he'd made about economic revitalization didn't hold true.
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Jessica Goodheart: When you only help the wealthiest & the corporations, they don't help the economy by spending money.
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Jessica Goodheart: People struggle, working 14-hr days. We talked to people about who they blamed for that, what they thought the answer would be. Some mentioned Trump was to blame for their not being able to get ahead.
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Rick: We don't talk about policy any more. I hope we get back to that.
Jessica Goodheart: There are themes that recur. Because we've had gridlock in gov't for so long, there are ways for special interest groups to get what they want. This makes room for Trump.
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Jessica Goodheart: There are things a President can do with Executive Orders if there's a 50/50 split in the Senate. People have paid attn to this election like at no other time during my lifetime.
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