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Okay, it's about midday, late morning on Election Day, and I am in the Washington, D.C. newsroom of The Wall Street Journal. It's actually pretty quiet right now. Seems like a lot of folks are still out and about reporting, heading to polling stations, probably talking to voters. But what we're going to do is we're going to go over to Ben Pershing's desk.
He's the politics editor here at The Journal and kind of just see how things are shaping up. Before we do that, I gotta bring him an offering, if you don't mind. There's some snacks here. Let's do some Cheez-Its, granola bar. We'll do that. Let's head over. And here's Ben. Hi, how are you? Hi, Ben, how's it going? Good. How are you feeling today?
Pretty good.
Yeah? Yeah. Not stressed yet?
Rested, ready. I haven't eaten too much yet.
Well, that's perfect because I brought you some snacks.
Oh, boy. So I love Cheez-Its.
There you go.
And that is my go-to, but usually more in the afternoon than morning.
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