Collected Item: “Election Week Anxiety”
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Election Week Anxiety
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Political cartoon titled "Anxiety Hotline" (caglecartoons.com)
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Due to the massive number of American voters who decided to cast mail-in ballots, coupled with the unprecedented voter turnout, American’s did not get an answer on Wednesday morning as to who the next POTUS was going to be. This uncertainty, along with the climbing covid-19 numbers, meant a lot of citizens were feeling overwhelmed and anxious about what the next few days, and perhaps weeks, would entail. Crisis hotlines in the US saw a spike in calls related to election anxiety. This political cartoon created by Bruce Plante shows the anxiety that the hotline workers themselves might have been experiencing. With call after call coming into these centers, hotline workers do their best to ease the minds of those on the other side of the phone call. This is significant to 2020 because it illustrates the collective emotions voters were facing in the first week of November 2020.
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#HST241, #CovidMiniCollection, #Suffolk, #Voting, #CrisisHotline, #MentalHealth, #2020Election
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https://www.cagle.com/bruce-plante/2020/10/anxiety-hotline
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Bruce Plante
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2020-10-29