Calling for Obama today, I got someone who said he was voting for Elmer Fudd. I guess he's in the 3% who'll vote for "Other Candidates."

Final IBD/TIPP poll out just now, too. You know, the people who always tell you how they were the most accurate pollster in '04, but were strangely off from the general results of all the other trackers this year by giving results that favored McCain by 4-5 extra points?

Well, their final result was

O 47.5
M 42.4

and then they go on to 'allocate' undecideds, by giving Obama 4%, McCain 2%. In other words, O 51, M 44.

Funny how that allocation makes their poll align most closely with all the other trackers. One may be led to think that they were afraid of missing the boat, and chickened out at the last second, tweaking their result to match everyone else's expectations.

One may, indeed.

All right, on my way to Philly to knock on doors. Let's do this thing, y'all.

I hope it is slow here at the moment because all the US based TPMers are sleeping to be sure that they have plenty of energy for the day.

McCain, at a rally in Tampa, Florida, insisted he could still pull off a surprise win. "The pundits may not know it and the Democrats may not know it, but the Mac is back. We're going to win this election." - The Guardian, today

What a wacky funster that McSlime is. You gotta love a guy with a sense of humour...although, in his case, I'm prepared to make an exception.

And now, I'm going to put the great Ray Charles on the CD player, crack a beer and listen to "Hit The Road, Jack" over and over again. And before anyone chides me for not getting out there and hustling the votes...I would, but I'm in London.
But I'm with you in spirit...

Thanks, Kash,,, that was better than a second cup of coffee !

Barack is Jefferson, Lincoln, FDR, and RFK rolled into one,,,,, and the whole is greater than the sum of its parts.

I am so disappointed that I am not in the US for today.

I have an American flag taped to my monitor and made a special election play list for my iPod (Got Battle Hymn of the Republic going at the moment).

In a couple years Barack Obama will be the first president that my kids will be aware of. What a great start to an involved life.

Hail to the Chief!

Best night of sleep I've had in two weeks.

Amost there.

You peeps are up awfully early!

Fired up and ready to vote! Let's all get out there and get out the vote. I'm going to take my 13 month old grandson with me to hold up a sign at the local high school voting location in Vermont. I don't know how long that will last. It's what I can do, and cover for my husband around the house so he can canvas in New Hampshire.

Mornin', peeps.

I just got done voting - got there at 6:30, by the time the polls opened there were about 150 people in line.

Wisconsin has same-day registration, so the guy in front of me who's address had changed just had to go over to another table to re-register. Wonderful - no problem! In most states, you're just SOL. And our polls are open late, and if you're in line when they close you still have the right to vote. (Or register and vote.) I've gotta say, we do some things right here.

I heard on the radio that Minnesota might get 80% turnout. Yes - EIGHTY percent! (bye, bye, Norm! And take your suits with you!)

I hate to be a wet blanket on the McCain campaign, but I don't think he's gonna get WI or MN... :-)

Bittersweet mid-day here in Germany... getting ready for the all-nighter/Breakfast with America expat huddle. Sunny, cool, the windows wide open, Curtis Mayfield and the Impressions LOUD for the neighbors... who doesn't need a little Chicago soul right now.

Keep on pushing. Get out the vote over there. Have a ball.

I am waiting for my mom to get home so the entire family can go together. I don't care how long that line is I am ready to vote!

I just got done voting! Whoo hoo. Felt so great to darken in the circle next to "Barck Obama."

There was no line at my polling place and turnout seemed about average. This is good, though....as I live in a lower-middle-class, mostly white, area in a red state. My precinct will go for McLame. You don't want a high turnout here.

Let me tell you what today feels like for me.

You know that scene in the movie Return of the King, when the Witch King's army is laying siege to Gondor, but then, the Riders of Rohan appear on the hill above the Pelennor Fields? And then King Theoden gives that amazing speech to his riders, and they go streaming down that hillside headlong into the horde of orcs, and the orcs begin by getting into formation to defend their column, but soon realize that they aren't going to be able to stop this mass of riders coming straight toward them, so they start to panic and the music swells, and the voices rise, and the swords and spears are drawn, and the battle commences?

That's what today feels like to me.

Ain't nuthin' gonna break my stride ain't nuthin' gonna hold me down no no

(whistling and humming as a certain giddiness [giddy?!? WTF!] overcomes me...)

I'm headed down to my polling place to hold signs for Obama, but I'm not voting until my granddaughter gets out of school at 3:30. I want her there right next to me so she can witness history in the making. Something she can tell HER granddaughter someday.

FIRED UP! READY TO GO!

off to work til 1, then volunteering at our polling place, handing out homemade brownies....yum........