Americans who heard there was an election yesterday reported being “shocked” and “horrified” when they woke up this morning to find that the presidential campaign had not ended. US states and municipalities held off-year elections yesterday, but the next presidential contest doesn’t reach its conclusion until November 2016. Counseling services and suicide prevention hotlines are preparing for a surge in demand as the realization sets in that the campaign has twelve long months left. Data journalist Nate Silver said, “It could be interesting to see how it affects the polls if despair over the quality of our democracy drives people to start killing themselves in large numbers. It would probably hurt the subtler and more thoughtful candidates who appeal to melancholic types.”