Is it too soon for me to start obsessing over polling and electoral maps?<\/p>\n
Everything looks pretty good (for my candidates), but I keep feeling it’s way too early to be happy about it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Is it too soon for me to start obsessing over polling and electoral maps? 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