We’re in the breathless final stretch of this election—when new poll analyses drop seemingly every five minutes , “ closing arguments ” that contain no new information receive detailed reviews, homepages transform into liveblogs , opinion pages swing wildly between imagining different scenarios , and almost none of it is useful because there simply isn’t much to do other than wait until Election Day. Or rather Election Week : Chances are that we won’t know for days, or even longer, whether the