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Andy Meek
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- Election Day 2020 is finally here, and it will be an extraordinary contest for so many reasons between President Trump, running for re-election, and former Vice President Joe Biden.
- The country remains in the grip of the coronavirus pandemic, and the economy has subsequently taken its biggest hit since the Great Depression.
- Accordingly, Google Search data reveals that "unemployment" was among the top-searched political issues by voters over the past seven days.
As voters head to the polls today to either re-elect the 45th president of the United States or to give the job to #46, it's worth taking a step back to regard just how extraordinary Election Day 2020 will be. A deadly pandemic is still raging across the US -- and getting worse, setting up the cruelest winter that's befallen the country in so many years. Voters who cast a ballot today will do so in socially-distanced lines, most likely wearing face masks, and will interact with poll workers who've likely donned some measure of PPE to protect themselves. Tens of millions of Americans have already voted, a function of the coronavirus crisis which led a record number of Americans to want to skip the Election Day lines altogether in order to cast their ballot early.
Meanwhile, some of the preparations ahead of the Election Day showdown between President Trump and former Vice President Biden can seem downright surreal -- and strikingly out of place in most people's idea of the American experience on voting day. A huge fence that people won't be able to scale, for example, has been erected around the White House as a precaution against election-related unrest. Businesses in many cities began boarding up to protect themselves against any riots, and United Airlines quietly moved its flight crews out of downtown hotels in several prominent cities around the country so that any protests or unrest didn't disrupt the sleep that these crews need to get. That's according to an email sent out to those crews from inflight administration at United.
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Voters have one issue on their mind more than anything else, based on Google data originally appeared on BGR.com on Tue, 3 Nov 2020 at 08:56:59 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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