With less than three weeks to go before Election Day, and early voting already underway in dozens of states, a lot of Democrats — maybe you’re one of them — are in full freak-out mode, rattled by every dip in the polls and panicked over the possibility of Kamala Harris losing the election and Donald Trump returning to the White House.

Calm down already. There are plenty of good reasons to believe that Harris will be elected president and that Dems will end up with control of one or both houses of Congress. Here is, in my view, the best and most productive way to view the election as it now stands.

A close race really shouldn’t be a surprise. It’s striking how many political professionals knew that the race would get tight in the closing weeks — literally every keynote speaker at the Democratic National Convention, including Harris herself, warned that would happen — but are still losing their minds. Politico called some of the party’s movers and shakers and found that “nearly two dozen Democrats described Harris as running a do-no-harm, risk-averse approach to the race they fear could hamper her as the campaign enters its final 30-day stretch.”

“Everything is deadlocked and the composition of the electorate is unknowable, and there are so many things that are unprecedented,” my friend Jamal Simmons, a former communications director for Kamala Harris, told the Hill. “If you’re not nervous, you’re not paying attention.”

One guy who pays attention and is not terribly nervous is Cornell Belcher, a former DNC pollster who was part of both of Barack Obama’s winning campaigns. “Don’t ride the #Pollercoaster people, stop focusing on the polls, they are all over the place, just have a voting plan and get your family &........

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