At midnight, Nate Silver ran his election model’s simulation 80,000 times. 40,012 times Kamala Harris won. 39,718 times Donald Trump won. 270 times the election ended in a tie.

But this morning I went for a run, hit shuffle on my workout playlist, and it presented a much different picture: Kamala Harris will win this election and it’s not even going to be that close. Here are the ten tracks in the order that they played that pushed her to victory:

Shatter by Maggie Rogers

A little on the nose, but there’s nothing subtle about these pieces of the glass ceiling we’re walking over.

Life’s a Happy Song from the 2011 movie, The Muppets

The ultimate good vibes song: the world of the muppets may be a slightly different one from ours, but only because they choose for it to be that way.

You’ve got everything you need / right in front of you / nothing’s stopping you / nothing that you can’t do / that the world can throw at you

(Some of you may be asking why this was an option on my running playlist to begin with. Everyone else also has it on their running playlist.)

Lonely Boy by The Black Keys

There are only a few people that have lost a presidential election more than once. But if that happened to me, I imagine I’d be a lonely boy.

love is embarrassing by Olivia Rodrigo

Rodrigo’s ode to cringe kicks into another gear during that final bridge. Kamala may be brat, but the one thing she hasn’t shied away from is cringe.

I Want You Back by Jackson 5

Admittedly this seems like it would be a song that indicates Donald Trump is going to win. But remember, there’s not a single line in the song that indicates she actually did take him back. I choose to interpret this as Donald Trump saying “I want you back” and the women of America saying “Nah, we’re good”

all-american bitch by Olivia Rodrigo

When we all finally realize that the melody of The Star-Spangled Banner is from an old English bar tune, I’m pretty confident this will be our new national anthem.

Supersoaker by Kings of Leon

‘Cause the supersoaker red, white, and blue them all away / with a kiss as unclean as the words that you say

No one will accuse Kings of Leon of having lyrics that make sense. But I can think of someone that the supersoaker red, white, and blue him right away!

Anywhere with You by Maggie Rogers

Roll the windows down, kill the radio / I’d rather hear the wind than hear that song I’m supposed to know / by some fucking bro

Stone cold and what the men of America need to hear.

get him back! by Olivia Rodrigo

There are a lot of us that want to get him back, that want to key his car and tell his mom he sucks.

There are an almost equal amount of us that want to get him back, that wanna make him lunch and kiss his face.

Life is weird. People are messy. Ambiguity is often the definition of what it means to be human. But somehow– somehow – we’re all still Americans. There’s one side of today’s election that believes we’re stronger together. There’s another that believes we’re stronger apart.

If you are– like I am– on the side that believes we’re stronger together, that means together. You don’t have to like what everyone is doing and you can and should call them out on it, but leaving people behind is not the answer. That’s what Donald Trump wants to do. Let’s not do it.

(Just a reminder that this is the fourth single from 2023’s GUTS. My God, that album is a masterpiece)

Bleeding White by the Avett Brothers

[We’ll] probably never make a sociopolitical record. But if we did, it might sound something like this…

When I heard get him back! come on, I pushed hard for that to be the last song. But I wasn’t quite fast enough. No matter. While get him back! may be the song most indicative of today’s election, the first song off the Avett Brothers 2019 album “Closer Than Together” is the perfect capper to this list.

Equal parts angry and disbelieving in the situation we find ourselves in, this song sounds more like something from The Black Keys than the Avett Brothers. But there’s hope. There’s always hope:

Y’all left me behind, but I can find you / If you don’t wander too far away

Today is our opportunity to not wander too far away. I have faith we’ll stay close.