When you have both parties predicting gloom and doom, if the opposition wins, Armageddon, riots, the end of freedom as we know it, yada, yada, yada.......
Then I think it means both are afraid their message isn’t resonating...

Good, the folks who don’t spend hours each day watching news, etc, will decide the fate of our nation.

That is a great thing, life ain’t a soap opera, it’s real