Agreed! And people have taken note of his khaki pants.
Imagine a hyperactive adult running every algorithm in his head Nate Silver ever dreamed of and spewing out the results. Not just once, but all night long.
Election Night plans: saving screenshots of the first 400-electoral vote landslide I’ve ever seen in my life
I won’t be going to a movie. Not making that mistake again.
Oh yeah. I’ll be doing the same here. Must remember to stock up on Election Day.
I love maps (duh), and so does Steve Kornacki. John King pioneered the Election Night real-time, multi/scale map analysis about 20 years ago, and then Kornacki started taking it to another, more hyperactive level about 10 years ago.
I cannot imagine too many more horrific experiences. Maybe a North Korean prison.
That’d be like watching ice hockey in ultra slo-mo while some commentator tried to explain the significance of every skate movement of every player.
Who the heck cares? The final score is the only thing that matters. And it won’t be known for a week or three after election night.
You do not get the magic of Kornacki. Thats okay.
In 2016, I was working in Ramallah, Palestine. I went to bed before the results were announced and had a nightmare that Trump had won. I woke up relieved it was only a dream and turned on BBC…
I should have added the word “entertaining.”
In broad terms Kornacki fills the same role as John King at CNN - breaking raw data .into tiny pieces and comparing and contrasting with other tiny pieces. But King treats it as his job for the night and Kornacki treats it like his life’s passion. It’s infectious.
Kornacki is brilliant at translating raw data into “and here’s why this is important” statements. Delivered with calm enthusiasm, if I may combine those two words.
When flying a plane, who the heck cares about the descent and approach? The landing is the only thing that matters. 
(More seriously, I personally enjoy the lessons in micro- and macro-geography, and I’m professionally obligated to know something about them. But if you don’t, that’s fine.)
This sounds like an interesting story. Do tell, if you wish to share it.
Since it’s my birthday I may feel compelled to celebrate with dinner out etc but afterward I will be huddled under the covers doom-watching Kornacki and scrolling the internet. In honor of Harris, I plan to have a large bag of nacho cheese Doritos which let’s be honest I will probably eat either way.
Have to add here my all-time favorite Kormaki clip. He truly is a human Golden Retriever.
https://youtu.be/gOtPsDM7rVM?si=DFKo67TLo5MsCZz4
OK I give up , I simply cannot get a link to work. What am I doing wrong?
It worked fine for me! I just clicked on it.
But if you want to embed it into your post, click the link in the top of your browser (the actual URL), paste it onto its own line in your post and then add another blank line, so your link stands alone.
Like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gOtPsDM7rVM only with blank lines above and below.
I thought of an apt analogy:
Kornacki:election results::Nedoroscik:pommel horse
Please pass me a Dorito?
I’ll be alone, in front of the TV, and praying occasionally. And will be drinking some too, margaritas I think. If you hear screams of joy when the election is called in Harris’ favor, that will be me. My diet will be out the window that night, popcorn and snacks.
I’ve told it before. But let it be a repeated cautionary tale.
November 8, 2016. Early returns were coming in and Hillary Clinton was winning. I decided to go see a matinee. It was Sausage Party, the r-rated animated comedy about hot dogs. It has a runtime of only eighty-nine minutes. But when I returned home from the theater, I found the tide had turned and that Donald Trump was now winning the election.
So the lesson is clear: never watch a Seth Rogan movie on Election Day.
I thought everybody knew that.