Ever since The Chicago Daily Tribune confidently proclaimed “Dewey Defeats Truman” in 1948, print journalists have been well aware of the pitfalls of publishing on the eve of an election. Our December issue, which went to press in late October, confronted us with that very problem, and we’ve dealt with it decisively—by having it both ways.

There’s another advantage to our approach: If you don’t like the actual election results, you can always click here and pretend things turned out differently.

election day, or, news are bug-reports.