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November 6, 2020

Welcome to this edition of The Reader, a weekly roundup of our stories and insights.

Voters still await results in key swing states as ballot counting continues in the U.S. presidential election, but some things are already clear.

• Joe Biden has already received more total votes than any presidential candidate in U.S. history.
• At the same time, Democrats suffered big losses in state legislatures during a crucial year for redistricting.
• The Trump campaign plans to request a recount in Wisconsin—although recounts rarely affect elections.
•  Election misinformation is spreading, with and without social media’s help.
  

Read on for more news.

Clifton Leaf

Editor-in-chief, Fortune

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This week, we polled more than 3,133 U.S. adults between October 3 to 19 about their pandemic lives.

67%

• ... of U.S. adults with a post-graduate degree have more free time than they did prior to the crisis. 35% of those with a high school education or less agree. 

80%

• ... of U.S. adults with a post-graduate degree have left their home fewer than 15 days during the past month. That number is 67% for those with a high school education or less.

14%

• ... of U.S. adults with a post-graduate degree plan to go to a party in the next month. That number is 8% for those with a high school education or less.

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A note from Fortune

In today's world, there's no such thing as "business as usual."

As COVID-19 hit the U.S., dairy farmers dumped millions of gallons of milk due to kinks in the supply chain. This week on Fortune’s Reinvent podcast, we dive into how Land O’Lakes was able to avoid this by scaling back & focusing on what its customers wanted most.

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From the archives

“What if the Supreme Court had let the recount continue? Retroactive clairvoyance is easy. Once you get to so many sine qua nons, latching on to one that happens to be anthropomorphic becomes discriminatory. Why not ask why Gore lost his home state of Tennessee? I call it political bigotry: If you believe we all have an equal right to run, we’re trying to get votes from each other, which means we’re all spoilers or no one is a spoiler.”

—Ralph Nader: The Fortune interview by David Kaplan, February 2014

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