Election night in America has turned into the electoral version of the Super Bowl. You know what I’m talking about — we order pizza, make popcorn and wait for a winner to be projected every presidential contest.
Tonight in Virginia’s gubernatorial contest, the stakes won’t be nearly as high as they were last year, but election nerds will do the same, with this contest potentially signaling a lot about the political environment heading into the 2022 midterms. In part because of laws requiring absentee ballots to be preprocessed long before Election Day, we’re hopeful for a relatively quick count.
Last year, it didn’t happen. CONTINUED
Harry Enten, CNN
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