Election Day in the United States
The Senate is up for grabs in November’s election, and the Op-Ed page asked writers from four key states to contribute occasional dispatches during the campaign.
1) The Campaign That Never Happened
By Dan Chaon, the author of the novel 'You remind me of me'.
Cleveland
Autumn arrived: the leaves began to fall and the political signs sprouted up in people’s yards. For a week or so there was excitement about the “tight” Senate race — a virtual tie according to some polls taken in September — but then abruptly Sherrod Brown, the Democratic challenger, seemed to leap into the lead, ahead by double digits in late October.… Seguir leyendo »