Lines were forming at the polls before 6 AM in east coast cities, and poll officials expect an unprecedented turn-out in Pennsylvania and Virginia.
The overnight polls at Rasmussen show that the last-minute swing of "undecided" voters has been a net gain for Obama, who now leads solidly in Colorado, Pennsylvania, and Virginia- all of which McCain must sweep in order to win the election.
Florida remains too close to call according to the FOX-Rasmussen poll, but I remain hopeful due to the huge number of votes that have been cast early in the election cycle. Even if McCain pulls even in Election-Day voting, there is a large Demcratic vote already cast.
Ohio is now considered a tie, also, but reports on the blogsphere say that McCain rally attendance has lagged - I saw a great story about the creative camera angles that disguised the poor attendance. It would be delightful to see a Democratic victory here, after the dirty tricks perpetrated by a now-disgraced Republican administration in 2004.
My nephew is in graduate school at a prestigious school in North Carolina. I have been heartened by the wave of Democratic Party activism there. If North Carolina closes for Obama - it is a whole different ball game in US politics. Two key states of the Old Confederacy (Virginia and North Carolina) will have deserted the Republican coalition that formed in the south in resistance to the Civil Rights Movement.
Waiting in a line with hundreds of other New Yorkers, and a diverse lot we were snaking down the sidewalk, I felt around me the same steely determinaton to effect change that was so prevalent among progressive peole in 2006.
That Election Night had many rewards, but we are eager for more, and more fundamenal, changes.
Can't wait to see the results start appearing tonight.
More, and more fundamental, changes might be arriving.
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My daughter called us from Atlanta after she voted for Obama today. Her excitement is palpable. We all feel it. Time for a huge change.
Obama has over 2 million Facebookers supporting him and McCain has 700,000. That's quite a difference and might reflect a "youth poll" of sorts, Sheryl.
There are many reasons to be hopeful today, Peter. Swing states are just one of the many.
Sorry, Peter, one pathetic hate-monger too many for me.
I'm with you. Don't let Barbara convince you that smart people aren't out there and aren't voting. I'm hopeful too that we can finally show Washington they've underestimated our intelligence for the last damn time.
Ha! Barbara, when did YOU personally experience Communism? Have you ever visited or lived in a Communist country? My kids are both very well educated and have studied history and government for many years. I trust in their intellects to understand the differences. Do you think they need to experience illegal drugs to know not to use them? That's the same logic, no?
AWWWWWWW SNAP!!!!!
I second what Stephanie said!!!
Worker-drones?
I got to the polling station this morning and signed in as #60 a little after 7am. I told the official that this was a good omen because I turn 50 in just a few days: two nice, round numbers. "That is lucky!" she agreed, "You should make a wish!"
"That's why I'm here, " I told her.
Can tomorrow come soon enough so these fools will STFU!
Except that your facts are all falsehoods, Barbara. No one in the Obama camaign has said anything like the viewpoints you just ascribed to them.
FOX News, however, has published each of these delusions as "serious issues".
The election would not be so frigtening if you listened to the candidates, and not the untrustworthy voices of he extreme rght.
A great comment, Sheryl.
We will all be breathing easier in a few days.
Exactly the accusations leveled against the social welfare reforms of the 1920s.
I hope this helps.
There is no untwisting the small minds of hateful people.
I hope that you have "unwebbed" your fingers - and have hopped for joy, Nippy.
And Virginia - and maybe North Carolina and Indiana !
Does Sarah Palin ever think about what she means when she invokes the "real America"?
"Real America" voted today.
Sad to be so myopic.
When the Republican "base" is a raging mob yelling insults that it does not understand, where does the GOP begin to rebuild?
Tough question. Normally, educating yourself about the facts would help...but in this case...they need their base to be uneducated in order to continue voting against itself. Hmmm.
No need to apologize, Stephanie.
Exactly, Dannielle.
"Everything old is new again".
As you say, Doyle, "normally" that is true.
It may take a third election disaster to move the Republican Party away from the politics of divisiveness.
Well, that explains why I have seen four-leaf clovers growing along Fifth Avenue, unicorns riding in taxicabs, perpetual rainbows across the sky, and angleic chiors singng continuously.
Tennessee keeps voting Republican, but Nashville supported Obama and change.
How long did it take all those people to vote in New York, Mr. Wimsey?
It took a little less than an hour to cast my vote, Martin.
Part of the problem in my precinct was the small size of the voting area.