“In a state Biden won by 10 percentage points, by any reasonable measure, this race should not be this close,” says Stephen Farnsworth, director of the Center for Leadership and Media Studies at the University of Mary Washington. “There are very few persuadable voters, so it’s a base election, and the narrative from both campaigns is that we are at the precipice for democracy if the other party wins. It’s Handmaid’s Tale or socialist nightmare.”
