Hi there, everyone, happy election day.

And election days are, they're supposed to be happy.

They're usually happy.

Today certainly is.

It's 4 o'clock in New York.

This is the first big electoral test of the second Trump administration, and it is upon us. It's here.

Voters are lining up today from coast to coast, like at this polling location in New York

City, where voters will choose their next mayor. The contests are set to serve as a bit of a

barometer for the national mood, nine months into an administration like none before it, one that has pursued

an agenda that wide swaths of the American people say they did not sign up for, even people

who voted for Donald Trump, things like sweeping tariffs to massive and brutal deportations,

to the political prosecutions of Donald Trump's perceived opponents and critics.

Of course, every vote, every ballot in every state is of vital importance.

But those cast in the state of California today on what has been called Proposition 50,

stand to be felt from coast to coast, from that state's Sugarloaf Island in the west across the

heartland to the easternmost lighthouse in Maine.

That's because that ballot measure, if approved, would initiate a redistricting in California,

a redrawing of the maps that would help Democrats make up ground that Republicans have seized.

It could help Democrats flip as many as five U.S. House seats ahead of next year's midterm elections.

It is the response to what Republicans at the behest of Donald Trump started in Texas earlier this year.

But evidently, our MSNBC colleagues there on the ground in California today aren't the

only ones with an eye on the polling locations because of the six counties nationwide to which

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