Our New York-based columnist Rana Foroohar offers her views on election day so far
For days, American shopkeepers have been boarding up stores, and police have been planning for riots. Today, many US schools, including some in NYC where I live, were closed in anticipation of election violence. And yet, from the early looks of it, November 3 may be much calmer than most pundits would have predicted.
Part of that may be down to the fact that so many people have voted early. More than 100m people, nearly a third of the country, cast their ballots before Tuesday’s voting had started. In that sense, Covid-19 has been a blessing for participatory democracy – early voting is in large part about the efforts that states have gone to in order to make the election safer.
It may also be about the strength of conviction that people on both sides of the aisle in the US feel…
