The Results Are In: America Is Still Divided
No one has vanquished their foes, and everyone will need to learn to live together.
Still standing.
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It could be a while before the final results of the 2020 elections are known, but it isn’t too soon to draw one conclusion: America is a more evenly divided country than many Democrats and Republicans want to think. In the end, there’ll be winners and losers, but neither side will come away from this election with a ringing popular endorsement, and neither will see its opponents swept away by a tide of righteous revulsion.
Right now, with results awaited in several crucial Midwestern states, the odds seem to favor Joe Biden for the presidency, but the Republicans have a fair chance of retaining control of the Senate, and the widely expected influx of new Democrats to the House isn’t happening. No landslide, no “winning big.” It’s a close race.