Nine days out from Election Day, and I can’t quiet my thoughts enough to write a coherent diary. It isn’t that I’ve been working much on GOTV—in fact I’ve done very little of that this year. I’m not willing to do face-to-face canvassing as I have in past years, because of coronavirus. All I’ve done is to tell my (very few) students to register to vote, and I’ve written 20 letters for Vote Forward—in fact I only just finished that project (a week later than ideal, but it’s done). Balancing my work with political campaigning, particularly during an economic crisis and a pandemic, is not as easy as it used to be.
I’ll leave you with another song I think is appropriate for this time, a song by the late, great Stan Rogers.
And you to whom adversity has dealt the final blow,
With smiling bastards lying to you everywhere you go,
Turn to and put out all your strength of heart and arm and brain,
And like the Mary Ellen Carter, Rise again.
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