I should have known Jimmy Carter would lose in 1980

I voted for Carter at the St. Jude’ Shrine in Baltimore. I found out later that Saint Jude is the  “patron saint of hopeless causes”.

As a Jewish atheist, I don’t know much about churches. I went in through the front door since I assumed it was like other buildings. It was dark and a priest was lighting candles in the front. The polling place was in the basement,