This country just had itself one of them election things, and there was a bit of voting involved. Really, the voting is probably the most anticlimactic part of the entire season, just a bit of filling in ovals and a lot of writing your name in blanks.
It's almost like being back in school, which you often are, taking a multiple choice test you forgot to study for. Even if you study, there's usually at least one or two questions races on the ballot for offices you've never even heard of before now.
The worst part of voting season is the run up to the actual ballot casting, when the millionaires, billionaires, and odd trillionaire spend grotesque sums of money to try and convince you that such-and-such will destroy everything you hold dear if elected. Paid for by Americans For Good Things.
While any voting season comes with its own inherent tension, this current one has possessed a loading unlike any I've ever experienced. Thought this country was on edge for the 2020 season, but we went and found a sharper edge for this year's edition.
With the proliferation of early voting options, 'Election Day' has become a more nebulous concept, but these photos are from final efforts to sway voters on Election Day 2026 and the two days prior. In the photo above, candidate for state representative Carrie Sanders McKeehan and her son hold signs outside a polling place in the final minutes of voting.
Despite all the talk about a blue wave this season, there was little evidence of one here in Kentucky. Nationally is a different story, with the margins heading off any of the feared attempts to contest the results. Now things get interesting. . .