“I’ll start right now as if the outcome [the recent count] suggests is the outcome,” Adam Nagourney told a crowd that gathered at the Times building. “I’ll write other versions too. Four years ago, the legendary Johnny Apple had written an early edition Q-hed analysis on exit polls that turned out to be wrong. And Johnny reacted pretty badly to it. I started writing it, but I’m also writing the other version.”

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