Well, I voted. Yuch. The polling place was busy but there was no line.
John Halpin, Ruy Teixeira, and Michael Bahareen at Liberal Patriot offer some advice on how to follow the election returns:
The upside to the internet is the wide array of good and trustworthy voices looking at politics and elections from multiple angles. We’ll be monitoring the X accounts and news feeds of several individuals and organizations that typically offer excellent, real-time coverage. This includes FiveThirtyEight’s live blog and their senior election analyst Nathaniel Rakich; the Cook Political Report’s Dave Wasserman; the Crystal Ball’s Kyle Kondik and Miles Coleman; and Split Ticket’s Lakshya Jain. Ex-pollster Adam Carlson has also put together a great list of around 100 experts that he trusts “to deliver accurate and fast results and/or unbiased and context-heavy analysis on Election Night” that is worth checking out. Perennial greats Nate Cohn, Nate Silver, Ron Brownstein, Henry Olsen, and Patrick Ruffini should be on your check-in list as well. Likewise, TLP’s Ruy Teixeira will be on The Washington Post’s election night coverage and on The Free Press Live festivities streaming on X and YouTube. TLP’s Nate Moore is also working the decision desk at News Nation.
That sounds prudent. Unless you prefer propaganda. You will note that their suggestions include some of my preferred sources.
On the bright side on the way home from voting I went to the local Pan-Asian restaurant (it’s across Peterson from me) and got the Lunch Special: miso soup, gyoza, and chicken pad thai. I feel happy now.
I voted over the weekend (Colorado is a mail/at home voting state), dropped my ballot off Sunday and it was counted yesterday.
It was a large ballot this year – full on both sides of a roughly legal-sized piece of paper.
That food sounds good! Winter has arrived here in Colorado, and so I think I’m going to have some Pho for lunch.
I voted today at our new polling place (a church), been going to the VFW hall to vote for over 20 years. Hard to compare the number of voters there with a different location. We didn’t have security there like they supposedly have in Champaign. I learned how to write-in a candidate for this election.
I think I’m going to watch a Vincent Price movie tonight and check out the results afterwards. It looks like in 2016, Fox called Wisconsin for Trump at 11:30 PM (Eastern). That was the moment that I first realized Trump was probably going to win. I don’t know what to expect tonight, but I’m not going to stay up later than that unless it looks like it might be called shortly.
Voted as usual at the firehall, saw democracy in action, a woman and her developmentally delayed adult sons came in, all three voted. The ballot itself was disappointing from Congressman to school board, nearly all were non opposed and so, mostly left blank. There was competition for the state supreme court chief justice by folks I never heard of. Did vote on a constitutional amendment.
Afterwards had a peanut butter and jelly.
Voted by mail (my state is mail only).
I’m watching realclearpolitics livecast.
Its kind of crazy how youtube lets anyone cover an event that’s like 95% of what you would get from CNN / ABC / FOX.
If this continues. Trump will have won a plurality of the popular vote, the first Republican since 2004, and before that 1988.