Tomorrow, tomorrow: We’re participating in a new project, VoteCastr, that’s publishing real-time projections of election results in seven states. Josh Voorhees explains the idea in detail here.
Subscribers to the Slatest newsletter will receive email updates on VoteCastr’s projections throughout the day. There’s a sign-up box partway down the page where you can add yourself to the list.
Au contraire: Was this election a series of sideshow distractions from Real Conversations About National Issues? Not really, Tommy Craggs writes. We talked about tons of important things: racism, xenophobia, policing, immigration, misogyny.
Why stop now? The Trump campaign is closing things out in classic style, Jamelle Bouie writes, with a campaign ad invoking anti-Semitic tropes and a speech in Minnesota stoking resentment against Somali immigrants. (His surrogates and apologists, meanwhile, made sure the Trumpish tradition of sexist remarks didn’t languish and die.)
Cause and effect: Over the weekend, photos and Google Maps of super-long lines of would-be early voters outside of polling stations provided infuriating proof that Republican voter-suppression methods have worked, Mark Joseph Stern writes.
Where’s that rigging? A team of five researchers that looked at 130 million ballots from the 2012 election reports on its findings: “Practically zero” evidence of voter fraud.
For fun: Here’s what kids today think a president looks like.
Take heart, take heart,
Rebecca
