Events

While writing the election night live blog, I keep thinking of the second movement of Carl Orff's Carmina Burana, "Fortune plango vulnera:"

19:21 CST. We lead off tonight with completely unsurprising results from Illinois: JB Pritzker sailed to his 3rd term as Governor, Lt Governor Julianna Stratton won outgoing Senate minority whip Dick Durbin's seat, and we have absolutely no idea who won any of the board elections. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution has declared that Democrat Jon Ossoff has won re-election to the Senate as well.

My Brews & Choos Buddy texted from her polling place at 11:15. Scroll all the way down to see how long it took her to vote!

We're finally in the home stretch! If you're reading The Daily Parker, that means you are literate in English, very good-looking, and already know it's Election Day in the US. And as in years past, I will report on the races I care about throughout the evening.

From John Scalzi's blog:

The biggest news around tomorrow's election came yesterday in Michigan when US Representative Haley Stevens (WTF?-MI), who lost the Democratic primary for US Senate to Dr Abdul El-Sayed, suddenly endorsed Republican MAGA candidate Mike Rogers. Stevens' reasons for blowing up her political career seem very personal to her and not really connected to issues or policies. That hasn't stopped anyone from speculating, raging, or lying, of course, and I'm including some of my own friends here. (Seriously...

Georg Frederic Händel, Messiah

Oh, Canada, what have you done? As of this morning, Winnepeg, Man., and Gaspé, P.Q., are in the same time zone as New York and Miami, and Dawson, N.T. is in the same time zone as Denver, two hours ahead of nearby Fairbanks, Alaska:

Today's beautiful sunrise has not brightened the news from around the world:

We've had an unusual run of really great weather this month, which may soon change as a more autumnal pattern starts emerging tomorrow. We're less than 38 hours from November, after all, so things will get cooler and cloudier.