text: To that end , Slate offers a real Election Day forecast , predicting the outcomes of close Senate and gubernatorial races based on the Tuesday weather map in Monday 's USA Today . ( Why USA Today ? It does not suffer from the notorious liberal meteorological bias that afflicts the New York Times and the Washington Post . ) In the interest of accuracy , Slate has updated the predictions based on USA Today ' s Tuesday forecast .
  
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  Slate covers the Election Day in depth .