What a week? Between the debate, and the events of the last 60 or so hours, it’s been a deeply dark, chaotic one.
Links
Just off-topic from the week but great: Helen Rosner, who normally covers food, went and interviewed a bunch of little kids on their first day of school in New York, and it’s really delightful! (Also featuring great photos.)
Also off-topic: Jamelle Bouie wrote a great piece about the 1800 election (Jefferson-Adams), how it was contested, how the process worked, and what we might take away from that today. You’ll really learn something here.
This tick tock of the week that the New York Times published on the virus’s spread throughout the White House is very sharp for just sheer “how the White House turned into that Maine wedding or the Seattle choir practice.”
On the debate, which also happened this week, this thread of quotes from a Luntz focus group of undecided voters are interesting.
One of my colleagues attended a debate-watch party in rural Pennsylvania at which Mike Pence spoke — and everyone there was just really taken aback by the debate. Really a scene there in the rain.
Another colleague spoke to one of the VERY few people who sat in the debate hall for hours the other night about Trump (and two of his guests) then getting coronavirus.
Bob Gibson passed away, and the Pitching Ninja is posting a bunch of great old videos of him playing and also talking about hitting people.
Light book commentary
Extremely light this week.
A note on all this
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