And here on the other side of our studio, we'll be watching the results all night with our panel, which includes Amy Walter of the Cook Political Report with Amy Walter, Republican strategist Kevin Madden, and Democratic strategist Fas Shakir.

Also with us all night is David Brooks, columnist at the New York Times, Jonathan Capehart, associate editor of the Washington Post, and of course, our very own Judy Woodruff,

who is back from her travels across the country for her series, America at a Crossroads.

Welcome to you all.

All right, Amy.

You're going to kick us off tonight.

We're going to be talking a lot about the specifics and the data.

But just start us off, big picture here.

What are you going to be watching tonight?

And what kind of big questions are you looking to answer?

Yeah, I don't think I've ever experienced an election night like this,

where we come in with the polls this close,

with so few people feeling like they have any sense of how this thing is going to break.

And I also come into this knowing that when you look at the

the way Americans feel about our political system right now, the sense that they believe that this is an

existential election for them, that my concern going forward is what happens to the numbers of people who will be very upset with what the result will be because it's more than just an issue or a policy that they're voting on.

But broadly, big picture-wise, what I'm looking at is to see if the coalitions that we've become comfortable with, really for the past

15 years or so, with Democrats doing much better in high turnout elections because they

run strong with younger voters, with voters of color who don't traditionally turn out in, say,

a midterm year, or they're not as typical voter.

They don't vote as regular, is the word I'm looking for, as white voters.

But now what we're looking at is a situation where it may be that Democrats are going to be able to find success,

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