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The Feeling Behind the Vote. It Felt True. Was It?
On 3 November 2026, as Americans vote in the midterm elections, we are examining a question that reaches far beyond the United States: How do political campaigns turn fear, anger and hope into certainty, and what happens when that certainty outruns the evidence?
In 1964, Lyndon Johnson’s presidential campaign showed a little girl picking petals from a daisy, followed by a nuclear explosion. Twenty years later, Ronald Reagan’s Morning in America offered weddings, new homes, sunlight and optimism.
Fear and hope. Two extraordinarily different emotions, deployed with extraordinary precision…
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