Location, Location, Location

It is a tale of two cities. Well, actually it’s a tale of cities and less urban areas. “Even as much else about this election feels unprecedented, America’s urban-rural divide will be as strong as ever, continuing a decadeslong process in which the two parties have sorted themselves ever more clearly by population density.” The NYT Upshot on why Republicans don’t even try to win cities anymore.

+ If the idea that the results of this election could end up in the hands of the Supreme Court doesn’t scare you, then maybe this reminder will: We only have eight justices in the Supreme Court.

+ Trump has only earned one. But do newspaper endorsement mean anything anymore?

+ Adam Gopnik tries to explain this election: “Bigotry, fanaticism, xenophobia are the norms of human life — the question is not what causes them but what uncauses them, what happens in the rare extended moments that allow them to be put aside, when secular values of toleration and pluralism replace them.” Or as Yoda put it, “You must unlearn what you have learned.”