Here here!

This post on 538 made me happy.

538 thinks Franken's bid for the Senate (Minnesota) could be the race to watch today. Should be a fun one to watch.

Anyways, as CNN likes to call them, "my races" for the day are:

Presidential:
FL comes first, as always. Then umm....NC, OH, IN, VA and it'll be cool to see how close Georgia gets.

Senate:
MN, GA (hoping for at least a runoff)

Ballot Measures:
Prop 8 (CA) and Amendment 2 (FL) will hopefully go down in flames
The ones on Affirmative Action should be interesting to watch as well...but eh...we'll see
Decriminalize prostitution in San Francisco!

Yes, hopefully Franken will win.

I think Shelly Moore Capito will keep her house seat here (WV), but gosh I'm praying Anne Barth defeats her. Every member of Congress from WV will be a democrat then, but besides that fact, Anne Barth really seems like someone who will make progress, which Capito hasn't.

Do you want us to egg her or something?

My voting story:

I'm a shit-nowhere redneck town in central PA. 30 minutes ago, I go inside to vote; there, I find two very nice old ladies with the roster, another woman voting (apparently for Barack), and an old, cranky man sitting in a chair and loudly raging against "THAT Obama." I wondered: why is this guy here? He doesn't seem to be voting. The best part is when he began criticising Obama for being in the voting booth "At least seven minutes...but you only get THREE!" Yes, he was accusing Obama of somehow breaking election rules as this old man broke multiple rules about polling places.

Whatever, right? I mean, who cares?

Well, when I finally got to the machine, the nice roster woman told me what to do and, in a flourish I would have thought came some some bizarre satirical film about the day, said "If you have any questions, just ask the Judge."

omfg

Happy election day.

I'll forgive your Hillary obsession if you post more pictures of your cohost.

I am really nervous. I thought Obama had it in the bag. However, there are a ton of people that are not going to vote for him, and I wonder if they are being captured in the polls. In VA at my precinct at 6:00 when the polls opened there were was a long line (a little longer than 2004). It took an hour to vote about the same as 2004, but we could vote by paper ballot which allowed more votes per hour.

I thought that it was a good sign for Obama, but there were not more African-Americans or younger voters than there were in 2004, when there should have been. I wonder how accurate these polls are, because the people in line did not look like Obama voters and Kerry carried this precinct 60-40 last time, and Webb won 65-35. I mean, I can't identify every voter as a likely Dem or Repub but I am pretty accurate with my observations, having worked the Polls too many times.

The good news is the Dems were much more organized in having many more poll workers than the Republicans, which was not the case in 2004 (it was about 50/50).

I honestly could see Obama winning by 3-5 million votes and losing the Electoral College. Not likely, but if he doesn't get one in the NC, VA, GA, FLA block or Ohio, Colorado, Missouri, it could be 269 and he has to win Nevada and New Mexico. I think that is his Firewall and he can't go lower than that, if he doesn't win Nevada he picks up another toss-up state. However, if McCain runs the table Obama is a few votes short in the Electoral College.

Does your show air nationally? What channel?

And to be on topic: Gobama, or something.

is there anywhere on the internet where we can see what your ballot cards (electronic or otherwise) look like? I wanna see what this entire confusion in Florida is all about this year)

Wet ballots in Virginia are just about the biggest scandal at the moment.

From a 538 poster

Actually it was Kerry 60.2-38.2%, and Webb carried it 67.6-30.5%. I just remembered it off the top of my head.

Obama won the Dem. primary 374-245 over Clinton. McCain got 83 votes in the Republican primary. Registered voters actually went down from 2004-2008, although I am only comparing primary numbers.

He must live in the 106 Precinct. One thing that happend in 2004 is that by 10:00 about 2/3's of all the people that voted for the day had already voted (at least at my precinct). If that is the case today then it would end up around 3800 votes for the 106.

http://www2.sbe.virginia.gov/web_docs/E ... 510.htm#01

Does anyone know how Obama will be replaced as Senator for IL? I have no idea how to look this up. I was able to re-elect Birden this morning, but noone was running to fill Obama's slot. Do we just have one senator next year???

There were two others jockeying for position in August when I was in Chicago, one was a state senator and the other was congressman. I can't remember either one's name, and I think the state senator might have dropped out.

Yoshue, this is something the Obama campaign would love to know -- I'm one of the attorney poll watchers in PA for them. Can you call them at 215-525-4840?

I VOTED THIS MORNING.

I got there as soon as the poll opened and the long was line as hell anyway. Amazing amazing amazing

Just got back. Waited about an hour and a half. They only had 8 booths which was rather annoying. There were some picketers for Yes and No on Prop Initiative 1. Not really surprising.

They didn't hand out "I Voted" stickers, i'm bummed

http://www.tarrance.com/files/Final-bal ... iction.pdf

Obama 50.2%, McCain 48.3%. Supposedly, this group was the closest to the actual results in 1992, 1996, and 2004.

If this is the actual margin it doesn't give Obama too much margin for error in all the battle ground states, because he has huge leads in Cali, NY, and Illinois, with McCain only comfortably ahead in Texas among the big states.

Well I voted at my usual place. It's at an elementary school where I went to long ago. It was manned by four ladies. They had two voter rolls to work with in case of long lines but there were no lines when I got there at 1115 to cast my vote.

In my state of OK, our main ballot was the same other than the congressional and local seats. On the back of our ballot were 4 state questions. I believe I voted yes on all those. The only two important ones were eliminating property taxes for certain disabled veterans and adding an amendment to the excessive state consitution saying we have the right to hunt, fish etc.

I ended up voting No on all the judges and clerks to "retain" their seats. I voted dem against Tom Cole to hopefully get his butt out of office. I stuck with Inhofe and cast an extra vote for Palin.

Also, in my county we vote on large scantron ballot which I prefer. We have a paper trail in case things go wrong.

Why do they have IF Warner wins?

i had no idea what that was and i got so excited .. i honestly thought there were black panthers outside and i'm like 'thats the most awesome thing i've ever heard'.

turned out there are 2 black dudes and much sadness.

Just voted for Mcshame

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/quiz/20 ... s2008-quiz

2008 Election Quiz to kill time. I got 21/30, which is pretty bad compared to how obsessed I used to be with presidential elections, but some of the questions were pretty arcane, IMHO.

Can you elaborate? Are you referring to Mark Warner in VA?