<em>The Atlantic Daily</em>: Our Election Night Watch Guide

We also compiled this list of six states to keep an eye on. They include: Florida, Pennsylvania, and more.

Be sure to familiarize yourself with the “blue shift,” or the tendency of early results to skew Republican. An uptick in mail-in votes may make this effect even more pronounced.

What to read if … you find yourself stress-refreshing forecast sites:

Ask yourself why, one mathematician advised Derek. “Our stress affects nothing.”

Or, as our Dear Therapist columnist, Lori Gottlieb, once explained: “The more we worry, the more we try to control our worry with something tangible, such as information. But clinging to our screens for the latest update has the opposite effect.”

What to read if … the election is causing you to reflect on the past four years:

That’s normal, Joe Pinsker writes: “Like the Olympics and other infrequently recurring high-profile events, each presidential election prompts us to remember where we were—and who we were—on Election Nights past.”

You may also find yourself contemplating the trajectory of this country since that November night in 2016. To aid in such reflections, we put together this collection of The Atlantic’s essential writing on the Trump presidency.

What to read if … you need a break from it all:

“Take a walk,” suggests Nick Baumann, the Atlantic’s Politics editor. “Put on some slouchy clothes. Read about rogue planets or The Great British Baking Show, or watch a comfort movie. Hibernate.”

Thanks for reading. This email was written by Caroline Mimbs Nyce.

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Caroline Mimbs Nyce is a senior associate editor at The Atlantic.