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October 30, 2024
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Mark Sappenfield
Senior global correspondent

In his article on the swing state of Pennsylvania, Simon Montlake includes a link to this article in The Economist: “The American economy has left other rich countries in the dust.” Is that how things feel? Not for many. That’s Simon’s point.

His article underlines that people generally vote based on what they feel, not impartial facts. That’s natural. But it can also lead to warped or incomplete views of the economy, government, or one another. And it’s a reminder that a broader worldview can reveal that how we feel isn’t the only – or often the best – lens.


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Endorsed by steelworkers onstage, Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump wears a hard hat during a rally in Latrobe, Pennsylvania, Oct. 19, 2024.

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A Long March 2 rocket, with a Shenzhou-19 spacecraft atop, blasts off at 4:27 a.m. on Oct. 30 at Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwestern China. The three-person crew aboard is headed to China’s Tiangong space station.
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Maasai people hang out in Loibor Siret, Tanzania, in 2019. Thousands of Maasai have been resettled from their traditional grazing lands in the Serengeti.

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Two columns of trees regard each other across a road, Oct. 7, 2013, in Gill, Massachusetts.

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Armenia's Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan (l) talks to Azerbaijan's President Ilham Aliyev during the BRICS summit in Russia, Oct. 24.

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A boy plays at the feet of a statue of former South African President Nelson Mandela on Nelson Mandela Square in Sandton, Johannesburg, Oct. 29.
( The illustrations in today’s Monitor Daily are by Jacob Turcotte. )

A look ahead

Thank you for joining us. Please come back tomorrow when correspondent Fred Weir looks at how Vladimir Putin has been able to remain in power in Russia for 25 years – with few signs of his leadership ending anytime soon.

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