One poll has Vice President Kamala Harris ahead in Georgia by four points, and another has former President Donald J. Trump leading by six. A couple more have the candidates effectively tied.
Cassandra Smallwood has no idea what to make of this blur of digits. She gave up on the polls a while ago, anyway, and is trying to trust her gut and be hopeful.
It doesn’t always work.
“I can feel my heart racing now,” she said the other day as her focus shifted, despite her best efforts, to the corner of her brain where all of her election-related fears are stored, a file cabinet of scenarios that would crush Ms. Smallwood, a Harris supporter who lives in Albany, in the southwest part of the state.
Georgia’s relatively new status as a swing state has brought plenty of changes to election season. Traffic jams caused by frequent motorcades. Ads that fill just about every commercial break. The text messages. The door knocking.
And the stress.
In the final dash to Election Day, with the race so close, the campaigns have poured time and money into Georgia, relentlessly chasing the voters who have not made up their minds or might change them at the last minute.
But flanking those sought-after voters are people who have been certain about their choice for months now. To many of them, the stakes of the election feel like sandbags slung over their shoulders. And the inescapable noise has only added to the pressure they felt.
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