Political questions have kept many of us up at night this election season. What would happen if Donald Trump loses? And: What if he wins? What about the dreaded and mathematically possible and maybe increasingly likely prospect of an Electoral College tie? A fourth question, slightly less heavy than the weight of those electoral outcomes, involves Republican vice-presidential candidate J.D. Vance. It’s hard to know how tall he is.

For a while there, a large-type Google result — what they call a “featured snippet” — had Vance’s height listed at five-foot-seven. This caused some social-media users to make fun of the Ohio senator for being two inches shorter than the national........

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