If you’ll permit me a personal note on Election Eve (and if you won’t permit it, feel free to stop reading now!):

I’ve had 30 lucky years in Washington. I was lucky to have been able to serve in a small role in the second term of the Reagan Administration. I was lucky to have been able to help accomplish a few things as the vice president’s chief of staff under President George H. W. Bush. I was lucky to have been involved with the Project for the Republican Future, the Project for a New American Century, and the Emergency Committee for Israel, all of which fought for causes in which I believed then and believe now. I’ve been lucky over the past two decades to have been able to help make possible so much good writing by my colleagues at THE WEEKLY STANDARD.