A lot of political coverage throughout an election cycle focuses on the horse race aspect of the thing, fixating on who's up and who's down and where. Issues are sidelined, and many more reasoned heads out there ring their hands and pray that our political dialog was more substantive. I agree that this sort of reporting is a problem for democracy, but on one night, the horse race is all that's left. The first polls have just closed - let the horse race begin.
CNN is starting to report returns based on 3% of the electorate of Kentucky and Indiana. If the political pundits on NPR this afternoon are correct, however, we might very well know who's going to win before many folks on the west coast even get to the polls. If Obama wins any two of VA, PA, or FL, then mathematically it will be near impossible for McCain to win. In that case, the race will be over by around 9 tonight.
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