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Organizers studiously refrain from assuming a voter’s general political bent based on their views on abortion, and they show no allegiance toward any candidate on the ballot, all the way to the presidential contenders.

By contrast, consider how, when most people encounter a neighbor or colleague who has just begun to wear hearing aids, they studiously avoid acknowledging the presence of a piece of plastic newly appended to their acquaintance’s ears.

Nobody wants to talk about it—not even conservatives bring up masks and school closures anymore, and much of the discourse surrounding inflation studiously avoids reference to the massive economic disruption of COVID-19.

Kamala Harris, because she studiously avoids referring to the working class altogether and focuses instead on the middle class, has subliminally been reinforcing Vance’s position.

“What the Israelis realized quickly was that, even as Israel was beginning to transgress the red lines, Hezbollah was sticking very studiously to the rules of engagement,” he said.