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First, what happened to the predicted Red Wave?   Time  magazine called it a  Pink Splash .  The  Washington Times  said:   The Vaunted Red Wave Never Hit the Shore . In a nutshell, we won't know until tonight, or later this week, and maybe not till December, about Senate and House control. At this moment, Republicans look to be in a favorable position to run the House.  It will come down to how many Democrats can flip Republican House seats in California. Love this quote from  CalMatters: Like   Schrodinger’s Cat , the ambiguously fated feline in the physicist’s thought experiment who is both alive and dead simultaneously, California election results currently exist in a kind of quantum state of uncertainty . Turns out that this state has Election Month.  Everything is in slow motion. So when will we know for sure?  Hopefully this Friday, but it could be in December. But it doesn't really matter, for the  Senate...

Politics later.  I first start with something startling.   Hawaii is the best place in the world to watch the total eclipse of the Moon tonight . Starts at 10:02PM Hawaii time, turns blood red at 12:16PM, stays this dark reddish-copper color for 85 minutes, and ends at 3:46AM.  Duration:  5 hours, 42 minutes. And you can watch without wearing any safety glasses, which are required for solar eclipses. You would think that New York, which is now 5 hours ahead of Hawaii, would end at 8:36 AM when the sun would have been up for 2 hours.  But eclipses don't work that way.  For New York: Begins at 3:02 AM. Peaks at 5:59AM. Ends at 6:41AM, with the sun rising just before at 6:35AM Duration:  3 hours, 39 minutes. Thus, Hawaiians will see the whole lunar eclipse longer than anyone else. The next total eclipse will occur on 14March2025. No one won the  Powerball $1.6 billion  Saturday night. You needed to have white balls 28,45,53,56 and 69, plus ...