From 2018 To Beyond: Starting with Detailed 2018 Election Night Coverage

[Former Dean Phillips Supporters for Haley (I guess???!?) 👁️]

Looks like a 241-194 D House and a 50-50 R Senate IIRC. Not a bad night at all.

Right on the House, but Senate is 52 R - 48 D (no net change) pending any recounts and assuming Rs win the MS runoff.

[Cold War Liberal]

52 R - 48 D would be R+1, not no net change

[Former Dean Phillips Supporters for Haley (I guess???!?) 👁️]

1:40 PM EST: AK-AL CALLED


Congressman Don Young (R: AK-AL), pictured on the right, is re-elected

November 6, 2018, 1:40 PM EST: ELECTION NIGHT, CNN Headquarters, Washington D.C.
CNN: THE SITUATION ROOM - CNN'S ELECTION DAY HEADQUARTERS

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John King: "We've got our final race to call. Don Young, the Republican, the Dean of the House, has been re-elected. And with that, we have called all House Races, and it is 241 Democrats to 194 Republicans. Pending recounts, and if the Republicans hold Mississippi in the runoff, Republicans will control the U.S. Senate 51-49."

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Senate Results and Exit Polls:

Senate seats called: 26 D --- 8 R

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Gubernatorial Results and Exit Polls:

Governorships called: 17 D --- 18 R

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[Former Dean Phillips Supporters for Haley (I guess???!?) 👁️]

FINAL RESULTS



November 7, 2018, 5:00 PM EST: ELECTION NIGHT, CNN Headquarters, Washington D.C.
CNN: THE SITUATION ROOM

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Wolf Blitzer: "Welcome to the SITUATION ROOM. Well, the election is now over. California has implemented a magical new procedure in which all its votes are counted by the end of election night. So all precincts across the country have reported their votes, and all absentee ballots have been counted from yesterday's election, and you can see the final results on CNN.com."

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[Former Dean Phillips Supporters for Haley (I guess???!?) 👁️]

FINAL RESULTS (CONTINUED)

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Senate Results and Exit Polls:

Senate seats called: 26 D --- 8 R

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Gubernatorial Results and Exit Polls:

Governorships called: 17 D --- 18 R

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[Former Dean Phillips Supporters for Haley (I guess???!?) 👁️]

And with that, Election Night 2018 is over.

And Election Night 2018 is about to begin.

I hope you have enjoyed reading this, as a rough sort of preview of what Election night 2018 may (or may not) be like. Although this fictional election night will not be an entirely accurate preview in a number of respects, and no doubt there will be some surprises on the real election night, if you have read this far then you have "lived through" one Election night 2018, and hopefully the fictional experience will leave you better equipped to evaluate, enjoy, and appreciate the real thing.

After the real Election 2018 is finished, I will evaluate the results and figure out whether and in what form it makes the most sense to continue this timeline.

[OBD]

Great job!

Looking forward to seeing how accurate these are.

[BigVic]

Interesting TL. The House election is similar to RL but Senate is 50-50

[Suburban Republican]

All things considered, this wasn't a terrible prediction. You were only 2 races off in the senate.

[Former Dean Phillips Supporters for Haley (I guess???!?) 👁️]

All things considered, this wasn't a terrible prediction. You were only 2 races off in the senate.

Yeah, there were a few things I would have changed if I had been redoing it from the start just before election day, but overall it seems to have turned out reasonably close-ish to what really happened.

Anyway, what I am thinking of at the moment is that I may continue this, but I would really like to get more of an idea about what is going to happen with Mueller before doing so. I am just not sure how long to wait. Something significant should happen sooner or later, one way or the other.

Also, if I continue this, I may "re-set" what happened to be the actual 2018 results, as opposed to these fictional ones. That will not make much of a difference, but will make things simpler to do on my part and also easier to follow.