How to watch election night like a pro

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POLITICO

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🗓️ 30 October 2020

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Nov. 3 is barreling toward us, but don't expect that to be the day we'll know who won the presidency. POLITICO's Zach Montellaro and Nerdcast host Scott Bland decode how to watch Election Day — and the days that follow — like a pro. Scott Bland is the host of Nerdcast and a politics editor for POLITICO.Zach Montellaro is a politics reporter for POLITICO.Adrienne Hurst is an associate producer for POLITICO audio. Jenny Ament is a senior producer for POLITICO audio. Irene Noguchi is the executive producer of POLITICO audio. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Really the main takeaway is that you average American should expect to go to bed on
0:09.3	election night not
0:15.0	see projection, projection, we know the winner.
0:19.0	Go to bed expecting to know that you won't know who the president is.
0:22.0	This is nerdcast.
0:24.0	I'm Scott Bland.
0:25.0	To steal a line from basketball, trust the process.
0:28.0	And Zach Montelaro is one of our politics nerds.
0:31.0	The analogy I use is if you've seen the most recent Spider-ran movie,
0:35.5	like his friend Ned, the nerd in the chair.
0:37.6	And Zach has spent the last six, seven, eight months.
0:45.0	I'm telling you now.
0:46.3	Telling us, yelling at us, really, to trust the process.
0:50.0	That everyone's like, yeah, yeah, quiet down, nerd.
0:51.7	It's actually a term you've probably heard a lot
0:53.5	when you hear it once you hear it everywhere to trust the process I fully trusted the
0:59.2	process I fully.
1:05.0	You have to trust the process of long term.
1:07.0	You have to trust the process and not worry about...
1:10.0	What's the results?
1:12.0	Results is the end thing, is the butterfly. It's what you
1:14.6	want to get. I know how to draw a different butterfly. Yeah.
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