The close race in our congressional district currently in recount with difference of 40 votes (196,852 to 196,812) is being reported by Iowa Starting Line from Lucas, a county named for the first governor of the territory, whose historical residence is located a couple of city blocks from where we live in this new place, and who is buried in the plot facing our old place, which in the last year was next-door to one of the other reporters covering same race.
A notable Lucas county birth is labor unionist John L. Lewis. The Wikipedia entry for him cites a John McCutcheon song about an old Appalachian practice of hanging three pictures above old sofa: “Jesus, FDR, and John L.”
Thursday, November 12, 2020, Lucas, IA, 15:39 CST:
Jupiter 22° 52′, Pluto 22° 52′, Pallas 22° 52′ triple conjunct Capricorn
Sun 20° 58′ Scorpio trine Part of Fortune 20° 51′ Pisces
Moon 18° 15′ (7th) applying conjunct Venus 19° 20′ Libra
Aries 23° 34′ rising
Image: John L(lewellyn) Lewis, son of immigrants from Llangurig, Wales, and president of the United Mine Workers of America at the Capitol, talking over the coal situation, April 3, 1922, Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.