* No, you can’t make this up, and Vlad Putin has probably filed it away. A Virginia legislative election has been declared a tie. A three-judge panel finally ruled on a weirdly-bubbled ballot that had previously gone uncounted. Anyway, the winner will now be chosen at random. From a bowl. Yes, a bowl.
* Seems like an eon–and not a decade–ago, but Kirsten Gillibrand, the high-profile, feminist senator from New York who has fought for the rights of assault victims in the military and in higher ed, wasn’t always this progressive. She once advocated for English to be the official language of the U.S. and boasted about keeping guns under her bed. But a congressional race in up-state New York is a light year from being part of the Democrats’ presidential-candidate conversation for 2020.
* This just in from Alabama. No, Roy Moore hasn’t conceded, but we now know more details about the write-in vote (more than 22,000) that was more than Doug Jones’ victory margin. Incumbent Luther Strange had the most. Among the others, in no particular order, Chuck Norris, Jeff Sessions and Bugs Bunny plus God and Nick Saban–who are apparently not considered one in the same. No mention, inexplicably, of George Wallace. This is progress.