The ballots are coming! The ballots are coming! Calm down.

Mail-in voting is great in so many ways. You can do it in your underwear, or less. But the downside is the wait. We don’t really have election day in Washington. We have election week. We are a state of edging freaks.

Political consultants tell The Stranger the numbers typically don’t move that much with the second ballot drop. “Tonight will tell us almost nothing,” one said. It’s too small. It’s puny. Miniscule. Pathetic.

If there’s movement, it usually comes with the third and fourth drops and heads left, in a progressive direction. As usual, younger, lefty-ier voters likely waited until the last minute to vote. Politics, as life, are unpredictable. But that’s the standing trend. Thanks for the anxiety, youths.

We asked those

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