Just a single data point

One of our neighbors is a racist old white lady who happens to have spent her career as a nurse before she retired.

She spent months telling us that she couldn’t possibly vote for VP Harris. Reasons. She knew that she couldn’t vote for TFG, since he’s such a piece of garbage. But she also couldn’t possibly vote for the candidate who’s actually qualified to hold the office.

This evening, she sent her grandkid over to play with our kid in our back yard. Then walked in our back door, a little bit under the weather. I was worried about her mental state, but the problem was that she was trying to cope with the fact that she’d actually betrayed everything she believes by voting for both Kamala and Allred. Because the alternatives are so much worse.

She knows how awful TFG’s policies are toward women. But she still needed my wife’s assurance that what she’d done was OK.

In other news, I have a non-binary Gen Z kid who my wife thought wasn’t voting. They assured me that this isn’t the case.

So maybe the unlikely voters might possibly show up?