How Election Week 2022 Went Down

Polls in Texas’s Harris County will be open an extra hour — so until 9 p.m. Eastern tonight, compared with the state’s usual 8 p.m. poll closing time. The move comes after the county was sued by the Texas Organizing Project, which cited delays in opening a number of polling locations, according to local reports.

Meanwhile, in Georgia’s governor race, Abrams leads Kemp 64 percent to 36 percent. Notably, that means the margin in the Senate race is 9 points better for Democrats than the margin in the governor’s race. As Geoffrey wrote in September, that’s an unusually wide divergence.

And from the looks of it, Nate, things are not going well for Democrats in Florida tonight. As folks may remember, in 2018, Florida’s results came in early in the night, and they were good for Republicans. That served as something of fake-out in a night that went well for Democrats. So is Florida an early indicator or a unique data point this time around? We are about to find out!