No, I didn't stay up all night awaiting results -- one of my children thought it was of paramount importance that I know, in the middle of the night, that his motivated guess was right and my dispassionate analysis was wrong.
There shall surely be much wailing and gnashing of teeth. But that was inevitable no matter the vote counts.
Like Mencken said, "democracy, too, is a religion. It is the worship of jackals by jackasses."
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