Okay, we made it. We started this season in late May when Donald Trump was just slightly ahead of Joe Biden.

Democrats were worried, but still hopeful.

We end with Kamala Harris just slightly ahead of Donald Trump.

Democrats are hopeful but still worried.

In a nearly three month span, there were more seismic political developments than it may be any presidential campaign of my lifetime.

A felony conviction, an assassination attempt, a debate so catastrophic that an incumbent president dropped out of the race

just weeks before he would have been nominated.

Then his vice president picked up the torch,

united the party, won the internet, energized the anti-Maga coalition,

and will accept that nomination this week on her way to potentially making history. But the race is still close. After all that, the race is still

close. And I have been wondering if it was always going to be close, no matter what happened.

Because, electorally, we've been an evenly divided country for a while now.

And today the two parties are as different as they've ever been.

The choice may be hard for some voters,

but it's pretty clear.

But this shouldn't make us feel like nothing matters.

In a close race, everything matters.

The candidates, their campaigns, their messages, and the volunteers who carry that message to voters,

especially voters who haven't yet decided what they'll do in November.

The question is, how much does all that matter?

Are we talking a few votes per precinct and the closest swing states?

Or is the exuberance Democrats are feeling right now? precinct and the closest swing states?

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