What Went Down On Election Night 2017

Bad news for those who want a constitutional convention in New York. We now have over 200,000 votes counted. Voters are going 4-to-1 against a convention.

Quick geographic observation: Northam has led Democrats to a sweep tonight, including possibly picking up the House of Delegates. But in a sign of just how gigantic the urban/rural divide has become, he appears to have lost Virginia’s rural Eastern Shore, his one-time political base.

Bangor joins the ranks of Maine towns reporting — and it voted 67 percent in favor of Question 2. Clinton won 62 percent of the major-party votes there, and she won the state — so Question 2 continues to modestly outperform the 2016 Democratic nominee.