Good morning. 
Sunday in Whitewater will be sunny with a high of eighty-two. Sunrise is 6:03 AM and sunset 7:53 PM, for 13h 50m 00s of daytime. The moon is a waning crescent with 8.5% of its visible disk illuminated.
Today is the one thousand three hundred seventy-seventh day.
On this day in 1930, the first color sound cartoon, Fiddlesticks, is released.
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William A. Galston writes Election 2020: A once-in-a-century, massive turnout?:
A new Pew Research Center survey released this week provides the most compelling evidence yet that turnout this November will be massive and that states will be challenged to complete timely counts of a record number of mail-in ballots.
During the past two decades, Pew has used multiple indicators to gauge voters’ interest and intensity as the presidential election approaches. Here are some key findings:
Prior to the 2000 election between George W. Bush and Al Gore, just 50% of the voters thought that it really mattered who won, versus 44% who thought that things would be pretty much the same, whoever won. This year, a record 83%—including 85% of Democrats, 86% of Republicans—say that it really matters.
Although divergent reactions to President Trump are driving some of this intensity, clashes on the issues are playing a role as well. Prior to the 2000 election, 51% of the voters believed that the major party candidates were articulating differing positions on the issues, compared to 33% who saw them as taking similar positions. This year, 86% perceive the candidates as differing on the issues, while only 9% see similarities.
Steve Elbow reports Postal Service slowdown hits Wisconsin:
Craig Brown started to notice it about three weeks ago when a customer who should have gotten a package within three days called to say it still hadn’t arrived after nearly two weeks. Brown, the owner of Steve’s Curling Supplies — named for his father — has since seen the same thing happen with other packages he’s shipped through the U.S. Postal Service.
One package, he said, is still “in limbo.”
“It normally takes two days, and it’s been a month,” he said.
Thankful that it’s not the busy season, when he normally ships 30 to 50 packages a day, he’s looking with trepidation to the future.
“If this was October through Christmas, when I’m shipping 30 to 50 packages a day, I’d either have to switch everybody to UPS and charge them two to three times as much for shipping, or I’d have to field 20 calls a day from unhappy customers complaining that they haven’t got their stuff yet,” he said.
It’s not business as usual. Last year he shipped more than 3,000 packages and had issues with 10 at most.
Lomi Kriel reports ICE guards ‘systematically’ sexually assault detainees in an El Paso detention center, lawyers say:
Guards in an immigrant detention center in El Paso sexually assaulted and harassed inmates in a “pattern and practice” of abuse, according to a complaint filed by a Texas advocacy group urging the local district attorney and federal prosecutors to conduct a criminal investigation.
The allegations, detailed in a filing first obtained by ProPublica and The Texas Tribune, maintain that guards systematically assaulted at least three people in a facility overseen by Immigration and Customs Enforcement — often in areas of the detention center not visible to security cameras. The guards told victims that no one would believe them because footage did not exist and the harassment involved officers as high-ranking as a lieutenant.