Scott Sakatch

Herald Editor

At the risk of sounding like an old codger (yeah, I know, that ship sailed a long time ago), I can’t help waxing nostalgic whenever election time comes around. Back in the late 1990s-early 2000s, during my first go-round in journalism, election night was always an exciting time. We’d all come in later in the day because we knew we’d spend most of the night on the phones, tracking down results and talking to election officials and candidates in between bites of pizza, courtesy of the company. Reporters and editors would be in the newsroom until midnight, but the buzz of the evening often carried on long after we got home in the wee small hours.

I remember one election night in particular: Nov. 7, 2000, when George W. Bush faced off against then-Vice-Presid

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