The most Obama-friendly counties in Virginia and Florida haven’t reported yet. So basically, chill. What we’re waiting for is Obama to flip a red state. VA, FL, IN, NC. The fact that they’re too close to call right now augurs well for Obama.

—Dana Goldstein

Dana Goldstein, a former associate editor and writer at the Prospect, comes from a family of public-school educators. She received the Spencer Fellowship in Education Journalism, a Schwarz Fellowship at the New America Foundation, and a Puffin Foundation Writing Fellowship at the Nation Institute. Her journalism is regularly featured in Slate, The Atlantic, The Nation, The Daily Beast, and other publications, and she is a staff writer at the Marshall Project.