What Went Down On Election Night 2017

I’ve been watching New York City politics for a long time, and I’ve seen very few campaigns as incendiary as independent mayoral candidate Bo Dietl’s. Right now, he’s getting just 1 percent of the vote, which is good enough for sixth place.

Exit polls from Virginia and New Jersey show continuation of polarization by race, age group, and education level, but not by income, which may be declining as a predictor of party voting.

In the nine New Jersey counties that have reported at least 75 percent of their results, Murphy is outperforming Clinton’s margin by an average of 3 points, although with a lot of variation from county to county. Clinton won the state by 14 points, so that would project a margin of victory in the high teens — or perhaps the low 20s since Murphy has been doing especially well relative to Clinton in the most populous counties so far.