Election anxiety: Democrat or Republican, Americans are feeling it

The direction of American democracy is riding on this election, and voters are dealing with the high anxiety of high-stakes variables that go beyond whom and what to vote for.

Like millions of other Americans, Michelle Deininger has found herself deeply frazzled about the presidential election this November.

A stay-at-home mother and self-described RINO, or “Republican in name only” living in Park City, Utah, she notes how the global pandemic, reeling economy, and ongoing eruption of civic unrest following the killings of George Floyd and others have now also become...