Nov. 3 in the United States is midterm election day, indeed the most critical midterm election of my lifetime, as U.S. voters will pass judgment on U.S. President Donald Trump and the MAGA movement. Alas, my editor did me no favors by setting me a Nov. 4 (Korea time) publication date for my monthly column. That is, here in Seoul, my deadline is during the election, which means I don’t have any results to analyze, yet it is too late for me to pontificate ahead of time on the election’s possible outcomes. Because they are predictable, event anniversaries and events scheduled in advance (like elections) are a columnist’s best friend (if you don’t believe me, look at my column history, in which I would estimate that nearly half concerns anniversaries (9/11, martial law, etc.) or dated events (summits, Olympics, elections). Deprived of my best friend this election season, I’ll have to make do with some prognostication and miscellaneous observations about U.S. politics. To start with predictions — which will make me publicly accountable! — the Democrats will get about 52 percen