You might expect DC to be a big party on election night. But unless things have changed since I was there on election night 1984, the place is a relative ghost town. All the politicos and their staffs are back in their home states to campaign in local elections (often their own). Or it may have just been that the town was depressed by the fact that aside from DC and Minnesota (Mondale's home state), every state was voting for Reagan that night.

In DC there's also a new spy museum that's quite interesting, and the Holocaust museum, I'm told, is very moving. A brand new museum about native Americans has just opened between the Hirschhorn Museum and the Capitol.