After wild election, Americans endure night of agony awaiting results

After wild election, Americans endure night of agony awaiting results

An unprecedented campaign season is over. Now voters board another rollercoaster – this time in their living rooms

After months of angst and waiting, at the end of an election ride crazier than any in memory, after the assassination attempts and the bloodied ear, Joe Biden’s shock departure and Kamala Harris’s stunning arrival, after the childless cat ladies and the Springfield, Ohio, culinary dogs, after all the vitriol and the gathering sense of doom – at last, it was show time.

Finally, tens of millions of anxious voters were done with the wildest campaign in their lifetimes and found themselves in that next stage of exquisite suffering that is the American way of democracy: the TV election night bubble.

Continue reading...

Read more at The Guardian

Save story

Topics

Related

World awaits US election results
Politics - The Hill - November 5
10-year Treasury yield ends lower after strong auction as investors await election results
Business - MarketWatch - November 5
All eyes are on America as an uncertain world awaits election result
Top stories - NBC News - November 4
Oil ends higher for a fifth straight session as traders await U.S. election results
Business - MarketWatch - November 5
US stocks stage rally as global markets await election result
Business - Financial Times - November 5
Decades after Carson left late night, his influence endures. Jimmy Kimmel and Jay Leno explain why
Entertainment - Los Angeles Times - November 5
Tory leadership election live: Kemi Badenoch elected new Conservative leader
World - The Guardian - November 2

More from The Guardian

Russia-Ukraine war live: Doubts cast over Kyiv claim that Russia launched intercontinental ballistic missile
World - The Guardian - 21 minutes ago
John Prescott, British former deputy prime minister, dies aged 86
World - The Guardian - 2 hours ago
Mazyouna, whose face was ‘ripped off’ by Israeli missile, allowed to leave Gaza
World - The Guardian - 4 hours ago
Maurizio Cattelan’s duct-taped banana artwork fetches US$5.2m at New York auction
World - The Guardian - 9 hours ago
Cop29 climate finance deal hits fresh setback as deadline looms
World - The Guardian - 1 hour ago