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And I'm very proud of the 50,000 poll workers and election officials who delivered a free and fair election.

The poll that matters is the one that happens on Election Day.

Election Day outside of big cities is different. For one thing, there are so few people in my town that each individual vote really does matter, and several local races have been decided by as many votes as you can count on one hand.

Outlets are turning away from phone polling, which can be problematic. For example, we did a poll for NBC around the Ebola crisis; we provided results in 24 hours. Their traditional phone poll would have taken a week to turn around. We're showing people we can do high-quality work: we've proved that with the work we do with the media.

Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. The daily work - that goes on, it adds up.

I think we can spend too much time worrying about polls.

Because Washington state now votes by mail, elections here tend to play out, at an agonizingly slow speed, over many days and, sometimes, weeks.

It's heartbreaking that so many hundreds of millions of people around the world are desperate for the right to vote, but here in America people stay home on election day.

A week is a long time in politics.