Election Day open thread: The first major electoral battle

Well, here we are, friends. A year since the Catastrophe, and we have our first major electoral contest.

Recent polling has shown Donald Trump and his Republicans in free-fall with the electorate. Democrats are winning the messaging war around the government shutdown—despite the best efforts of the legacy media, and those on "our" side who spend all their time fulminating against the party, rather than aiming solely at the GOP.

However, all these indicators and $4 will get you a crappy cup of burned Starbucks coffee. They mean nothing unless voters turn discontent into action. You can go to all the protests and rallies you want; if you don't march to the polls as you marched while wearing a frog costume, it's pointless.

And yes: believe it or not, the New York City mayoral race is not the most important election in the country. I'd say that the redistricting special election here in California, and the Virginia and New Jersey general elections are a smidge more important than who gets to disappoint New Yorkers as every mayor does once voted in. Just ask Presidents Rudy Giuliani, Bill De Blasio, and Michael Bloomberg.

So settle in, make you favorite beverages and snacks, and watch what happens. Because this is your: