Tuesday’s election outcomes may hold clues to future election outcomes, numerous mainstream political media outlets reported on Tuesday, which is election day in several states as jurisdictions across the country. Barring any major surprises, mostly in the form of polling misses, the margins of the Tuesday elections may hold even more importance than the outcomes of Tuesday’s elections themselves as far as setting expectations and forecasting future election outcomes goes.

Some observers are even arguing that Tuesday’s elections are “the only poll that matters” because, unlike public opinion polling intended to measure intent of a vote cast in a future election, this is an actual election and as such provides a far more valuable insight into what an electorate may decide in future elections. One could go so far as to call it a “barometer” or “window” that aids in forecasting the outcome of even future elections, especially nationwide ones with major implications.

Other observers emphasized the election outcomes as an expression of how voters are currently feeling on a number of issues, such as how much of the currency they use to exchange for the goods and services they purchase that they currently have in their possession and whether the not mentally stable man who promised to increase that quantity has made a sincere enough effort to fulfill his campaign pledges to do so. Still others preferred to emphasize the question of whether teenagers with penises should be allowed to dress differently and then engage in athletic competition with teenagers who do not have penises. The intent of that being to refocus voters away from the currency thing. Another contingent of observers warned that voters who listen to computerized audio recordings of a bald man who encourages them to try potentially hazardous chemicals as alternatives to established medicine will in all likelihood not be participating in any of these elections, much to the disadvantage of one side who had been dependent on their support.