Thread by @merica, Over the last six weeks, I traveled to MI, WI, NC, FL [...]

Over the last six weeks, I traveled to MI, WI, NC, FL and AZ to talk to voters in key regions about how they are approaching the election.

The stories, taken together, paint a picture of an electorate approaching this election far differently than they did in 2016.

In Michigan, there is significantly less antipathy for Biden than there was for Clinton in 2016. And that is playing out w/ white, union workers in places like Monroe County.

Trump enjoys plenty of support, but it looks different than four years ago. https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/28/politics/michigan-2020-election/index.html

This Michigan county could tell us a lot about the 2020 election

Chris Lands is filled with regret.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/28/politics/michigan-2020-election/index.html

In Wisconsin's Driftless Area, there is notable fatigue w/ the chaos in Washington, particularly w/ Trump after the first debate.

"It just makes you tired. He's like a kid in a candy store. If he can't have a piece, he breaks everything in the store." https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/15/politics/wisconsin-voters-politics-fatigue/index.html

'Fatigue is a factor': Political exhaustion weighs on voters in rural Wisconsin

In an electorate that agrees on little, there is one thing that nearly every voter here in Southwest Wisconsin feels: Exhaustion.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/15/politics/wisconsin-voters-politics-fatigue/index.html

North Carolina feels like it could be the perfect storm for Trump: The state is diversifying, its blue suburbs are booming and seniors on its coast are fleeing the President.

Trump's rural support is signifiant and proud - but those areas are shrinking. https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/22/politics/north-carolina-voters/index.html

North Carolina is the center of the political universe as the state's demographics shift dramatic...

Donald Trump has a math problem in North Carolina.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/22/politics/north-carolina-voters/index.html

Republicans enjoy more committed voters in Duval County, but Dems have a registration advantage & are working to turnout Black voters who stayed home in 2016.

GOP chair: "This is Florida. ... If it doesn't go to the Supreme Court, that is a landslide." https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/28/politics/florida-voters-duval-county/index.html

'We don't have landslides in Florida': The fate of a key swing state may be in the hands of voters...

Danielle Wade was undecided minutes before she stepped into a suburban early voting site north of Jacksonville. Wade represents a key dynamic playing out in communities across the country, including...

https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/28/politics/florida-voters-duval-county/index.html

And Maricopa County, Arizona, the largest swing county in the country - where the politicization of the coronavirus was evident.

One woman on possibly voting for Trump: "I may have voted for him, because of his policies"... but then she contracted Covid. https://www.cnn.com/2020/11/02/politics/arizona-maricopa-county-voters/index.html

How the politicization of the coronavirus could shape Arizona's most important county

The coronavirus has upended the presidential election and nowhere is that clearer than in Maricopa County, Arizona, the largest swing county in the country.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/11/02/politics/arizona-maricopa-county-voters/index.html

Big thanks for @jmestepa and @kyletblaine for editing all these pieces.

And for great photos by @willylanzoni and @gdemczuk.

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