FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — The question was not rhetorical. “What the hell has happened?”Well. It is Election Day 2018, the one so many have been waiting for, the one so many cannot bear to see arrive, lest hope be supplanted by more despair. And a campaign season’s journey across a cleaved America makes plain that the state of our union is:“Anxious,” Yadhira Barrios, 39, said in Spanish between canvassing door-knocks along an immigrant-heavy Orlando cul-de-sac. “Anxious,” Sandra Dennis, 76, said at a Republican rally some 50 miles northeast, worrying aloud that Tuesday could undo all the good she believed President Trump had done.

Source: New York Times November 06, 2018 16:38 UTC