I seem to be behind in my Harper’s Weekly Review reviews. So today I’m reviewing stuff I managed not to notice in the past several months.
Today I picked up this wild Harper’s collection of recent and characteristic (?) Swing State activities — nothing like the ones we usually learn about. Nothin’. Although when we think “swing states,” some of us may be thinking “weird and dopey” states. To wit:
Americans began in-person voting in the 2024 U.S. presidential election, which pollsters in the closing weeks of the campaign predicted would be determined by people living in Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin; in Wisconsin, a man was convicted after helping his son conceal the bodies of four people he’d killed in a cornfield; in Arizona, a man was arrested after driving around the state for four years with his father’s frozen corpse; in Georgia, a man was arrested for driving with two dogs tied to the back of his car; in North Carolina, a man was arrested for selling at least 1,000 homemade machine guns to “people from the mountains”; in Michigan, it was reported that a man living in the woods of the Upper Peninsula captured video of himself being “knocked out cold” by what he claimed was a bigfoot; in Nevada, it was reported that a desert motel was haunted by clowns; and in Pennsylvania, a state senator proposed creating an office that could repeal a ban on for-profit fortune telling.
Is it too much to assume these wackos are Trump voters? Or am I being gratuitously mean?