Stevenson’s army, November 3

As usual, I’ve got my Pepsi & Fritos to help me cope with the returns tonight. [No alcohol until the most important races are decided.] I never pulled an all-nighter in college, but elections can keep me awake hours longer than usual. See you tomorrow.
Historian Jill Lepore recounts vote-counting stories over the years.
Puzzle for political scientists: how come Trump’s approval rating never varied as much as his predecessors’?

WaPo has a story about possible delays or refusals to count military ballots.

I’ve known people who spent all day in Starbucks with their laptops. I suspect many people have wanted to do the same to escape quarantine at home during the pandemic. But this sounds like an even better alternative:
Mr. Edwards, head of technical operations at a filmmaking company, pays £20, equivalent to around $26, for four hours of Wi-Fi, a hot lunch, bottomless coffee and a pint of beer in the cozy chair by the roaring fire at the King’s Head pub in Winchmore Hill, north London.

Hunter Ruthven paid £15 for four hours at a pub table at the Bull & Gate, including Wi-Fi, unlimited tea and coffee and a pub-cooked lunch. He ordered eggs and smoked salmon with hollandaise sauce.

Prices vary. The King’s Head charges £20 for four hours, in London’s borough of Camden, the Lion & Unicorn bills £15 for the same; a couple of miles away in Islington, John Salt charges £10, and at the Culcheth Arms in the town of Warrington, northwest England, customers pay £12 for five hours, with all prices including lunch plus tea and coffee.

My SAIS colleague Charlie Stevenson distributes this almost daily news digest of foreign/defense/national security policy to “Stevenson’s army” via Googlegroups. I plan to republish here. To get Stevenson’s army by email, send a blank email (no subject or text in the body) to stevensons-army+subscribe@googlegroups.com. You’ll get an email confirming your join request. Click “Join This Group” and follow the instructions to join. Once you have joined, you can adjust your email delivery preferences (if you want every email or a digest of the emails).