All Over At 7:30 EST

There is something about spending 2 months hyping an event (election) and then wanting to "declare the narrative" at 7:30 EST, or file one version of their pre-written column, before most polls are closed and long before most votes will be counted. At least in presidential races they're all staring at flawed but somewhat informative exit polls. In Marco Rubio terms, they want to call the sportsball game in the first quarter before all the players have left the ice and when many more 3 point kicks could still happen. Most of the people paid boatloads of money to be on teevee have not spent any time learning anything about more than a few districts/races.

"[I]n politics, intensity is not strategy. You have to be able to convert. The Resistance didn’t convert." - Bret Stephens, 11/8 pic.twitter.com/YqfFxao29j

— Osita Nwanevu (@OsitaNwanevu) November 16, 2018

Orange County, CA, is now all blue.