This is my repost of my previous post here. My question WASN’T actually clear enough, so I had to add “United States presidential” to the title. That said, I’ll start by saying I’d vote for Governor of Kentucky Andy Beshear.

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    12 hours ago

    How so?

    I fly enough to hit “gold” status on major airlines, and have seen the transition from the shit-show that was TSA initially into a universally smooth and fast process.

    I think a lot of people don’t truly know the chaos that was pre-TSA screening. Do you recall being stuck in an aircraft at the gate, because the airline had to unload luggage for a passenger that hadn’t boarded?

    For a long time after 9/11 the only airport operating smoothly was DCA (Congress uses DCA)

    But for the last dozen or more years, things have only gotten smoother, everywhere.

    I passed through JFK screening in less than 22 minutes a few weeks ago.

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        11 hours ago

        To be fair, it is. I also kept a Clear membership for a few years, but it wasn’t worth it.

        But, non-pre lines are just as short as pre-check these days, and my (non-science) impression is that the only reason it’s slower is that more of the folks in it are unfamiliar with the process.

        But messaging/signage for what’s required is quite good in most places, and it’s still much less confusing than 80s and 90s airports.