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My mother was a Stevenson Democrat and my father an Eisenhower Republican. There was never any doubt - or arguments about - the fact that each would vote their conscience. Of course, we are now living in frightening times in this country where even the impossible thought of a civil war lurks.

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1) Yes, women will save the world. (2) I just spent a week door-knocking in a pink county of Pennsylvania. I drove up one long winding driveway and at the top, started a man and woman who had just gotten into their car. I asked for the woman by name, since only her name was on my list. She put her hand up inside the car. Immediately, her husband started yelling at me -- "What do I think I'm doing?! Get the hell off my property!", etc. I left with a wave, but now I'm worried that I outed the woman as a Kamala supporter when maybe she had been telling her husband she supports Trump. It was a real Handmaids moment. After that, I started parking at the bottom of the driveway and walking up, which felt less intrusive than driving up to their house. These are people who live way up in the woods, in part because they don't want people like me to knock on their doors.

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This seems to be much more common we recognized. I'm keen to see how this election is creating a permission structure for women who've been silent up till now.

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More about this: https://wapo.st/3CeMfJF

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