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Posted: 2020-01-08T10:45:15Z | Updated: 2020-01-08T14:39:51Z

If the six Democratic debates (hey, wine cave !) hadnt tipped you off, 2020 is a presidential election year . Americans are staring down a packed schedule of primaries, conventions and even more debates leading up to Election Day on Nov. 3, and people are already getting stressed out.

According to 2019s Stress in America poll conducted by the American Psychological Association, 56% of adult Americans said the upcoming election is a stressor. Thats a slight uptick from 2016, when 52% said it caused stress.

With that stress comes stress eating. During the last presidential election, food tracking app Lose It! recorded 3.6% more calories consumed on Election Day than on a regular Tuesday, and a couple of weeks after the election, The Boston Globe dubbed the phenomenon of post-election weight gain the Trump 10 . And in November 2018, during the midterm elections, YouGov polled people and discovered Democrats were 50% more likely than Republicans to say theyre eating their feelings because of election stress.