Voters fear the America they've known is slipping away. On that, the left and right agree
2026 Midterm Elections,Common Ground,Polls,Politics,Trump Administration
The stakes in Tuesday's midterm elections are so high that Shane Dunn voted for the first time in his life, at age 65.
After a career as a cook up and down the East Coast, Dunn moved to the Philadelphia suburbs and voted last week in Levittown. "I was always a busy man," he said outside his polling place. But now, "I'm learning what's going on within our country, and this is actually what brought me out."
Democrats got his vote. "It feels great, to put my word in," he said, patting the "I Voted" sticker on his black hoodie...
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