handicap

But a Harris loss would be dark confirmation that a woman who does most things right is still at a fatal handicap, even compared with a man who does everything wrong.

“Sometimes we settle for less than we want... sometimes we recognize we’re working with a handicap and we’re doing the best we can.”

After Garr publicly announced that she had MS — a degenerative disease affecting the nervous system — she often joked that she continued to get parts “even though, you know, in Hollywood getting older is worse than having a handicap.”

There was plenty to admire in Arsenal’s performance, delivered despite the handicap of losing key defenders Gabriel and Jurrien Timber in the second half when holding that slender lead, to go with the absence of suspended William Saliba and injured Riccardo Calafiori.

One reason this unprecedentedly tied race is so difficult to handicap is that Kamala Harris and Donald Trump are scrounging for votes in different universes.