<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif">The Today's Issues discussion group will meet at 9:30 on Sunday to discuss the election and its implications.  We meet in the parlor of the Religious Education building next to the church following social distancing guidelines, please bring a mask.  Please bring your own thoughts to share in our lively discussion.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif">The group did not choose readings in advance because of the timely nature of the issue.  If you have come across anything particularly interesting, please share it with us at the meeting.  While I have your attention, let me suggest Tom Friedman's <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/04/opinion/trump-biden-election-2020.html">column in this morning's NY Times</a> ,  There are also three essays in The Atlantic online this morning.  But there's no obligation to read these essays, I'm sure we've all been following the election in our own preferred media.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif">Three essays from The Atlantic this morning:</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif"><a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2020/11/2020-election-results-biden-trump/616996/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=atlantic-daily-newsletter&utm_content=20201104&silverid-ref=MzEwMTU3NjM0MDM5S0">A Cold War Between Red and Blue America</a><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif"><a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2020/11/jaime-harrison-south-carolina-2020/616981/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=atlantic-daily-newsletter&utm_content=20201104&silverid-ref=MzEwMTU3NjM0MDM5S0">The South has already changed</a></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif"><a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/11/polling-catastrophe/616986/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=atlantic-daily-newsletter&utm_content=20201104&silverid-ref=MzEwMTU3NjM0MDM5S0">The Polling Crisis Is a Catastrophe for American Democracy</a><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif"><br></div></div>