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Whoever Wins, the System Has Worked
Despite innumerable challenges this year, poll workers and election officials have so far done a laudable job.
Nice work everyone.
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Still counting the votes. But here’s the good news: In the midst of a pandemic, harsh partisan polarization, the biggest turnout in more than a century (in percentage terms) or ever (in raw numbers), and persistent hostility from the president, the U.S. has pulled off what certainly appears to be a well-run, free and fair election.