Reliving Election Night 2016, Through FiveThirtyEight’s Live Blog
A lesson in how to prepare for when the 2020 results start rolling in
One of the more disorienting parts of preparing one’s self for Election Night 2020 is the realization that most of us still aren’t quite over Election Night 2016. The stories of the disastrous Hillary Breaks The Glass Ceiling parties are legendary at this point, famously satirized by Saturday Night Live and, in even more harrowing fashion, by Ryan Murphy in American Horror Story.
But memories of that night are difficult to parse because they are so tied up in how the night ended… and everything that has happened since. To truly untangle how the night went down, and what we might be able to learn from it this year, you have to experience it in real time.
So I decided to go back to the FiveThirtyEight’s Election Night 2016 Live Blog, a constantly updated running commentary on what was happening as it was happening. What did everyone think going in? When did the thinking start to change? When did people start…
