As Justin notes below, Indiana is tight and this is a good sign...

CNN calls VA-Sen for Warner (D). Dems +1.

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Bruce Lunsford and Mitch McConnell in a virtual tie (delta <300 @16%) in KY-Sen.

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Hmm, Virginia not looking good. CNN currently has 56 to 43 for McCain....

CNN: 55 to 45 for Obama. Hmmm.....

The exits in VA look good for Obama. We all remember 04 though. I think it will be over soon after 9 pm.

Jessica Yellin gets hologrammed:

Brian A.
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WV-Sen : Called for Rockefeller (D). This is a hold.

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Obama:

MA, IL, CT, NJ, ME (3/4), DE, MD, DC

McCain:

TN, OK

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MSNBC is calling PA for Obama with 0%

Va is frustrating. According to CNN the DC burbs haven't turned in their votes yet. FL looks promising though. FWIW, I had Obama losing VA, OH, NC and FL.

Hagan is pulling ahead of Dole in NC. Dole ran a dirty campaign. I hope it comes back to bite her in the ass.

Electoral-Vote has NC and FL blue.

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Lautenberg, Biden, Kerry, Durbin (D) all hold.

Huckleberry Graham and Collins (R) hold. And Lamar! is projected to win, currently up 50 points.

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Live Google map has NC with 1 point Obama lead.

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FL and NC may surprise everyone. I thought that VA might go blue over NC and FL but its trending pretty damn red right now. FL and NC are swinging really blue right now. Bizarro world. CNN just went to Phoenix for McCain big "party". Looks like a bunch of old white people in suits and ties.

Lamar 70+%

FL 56 44 for Obama. Dade, Orange (Orlando) big for Obama.

Google map shows Seminole Co. for Obama by 13 points with 47% reporting. We used to live there. I'm flabbergasted.

I'm calling FL for Obama.

It's over.

UPDATE: For reference, Seminole was 69% Bush in 2004.

MSNBC is calling a loss for Dole in NC.

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After standing in line to vote for over an hour with a bunch of rednecks. I am glad to be home counting on change. Justin, What do you think so far? I am also watching the Dole/Hagan race in NC and pulling for Hagan.

The big win for Warner in VA tells me one thing. A lot of whites could vote for a Democrat...they just couldn't vote for a black one. CNN's map had a majority of the state showing blue for the gov race...mostly red for the presidential.

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HUGE difference, especially in western VA.

CNN calls PA for OBAMA.

Florida and Indiana continue to look promising.

Anyone see any exit polling on the hockey mom voter demographic?

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MSNBC had an interesting piece on exit polling in NC. It seems that 30% of whites who said that race was a factor also said that they voted for Obama.

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Despite Dole's dirty low camp, CNN has projected Hagan the Winner.

NC holding for Obama 52 to 47 with 19% reporting.

Bob Barr is on the board with 1%. Hahaha. Too bad for McCain.

CNN Projection time:

O: RI (4), MI (17), WI (10), MN (10), NY (31)

M: WY (3), ND (3)

Obama's magic number: 96

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Oops. Seminole flipped 51 to 49 for McCain with 77% reporting. Obama is still outperforming Kerry by a big margin, so I am still calling FL for Obama and it's over.

Oh, and MSNBC just called Arizona too close to call. Heh.

The coveted Cheney endorsement pays off for McCain in Wyoming!

I'm negatively surprised how close Virginia is. On the flip side, I'm slightly positively surprised by the vote count thus far in North Carolina and Florida.

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Senate is going over 51 D at this hour. Shaheen, Hagen, Udall (AZ). +3

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GA not even close. 21 point split. Called McCain.

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CNN has Obama 200k ahead in OH.

I'm thinking FL and OH will be called by 10pm->Obama.

Tomorrow will be a beautiful day.

Fox has called NM for Obama.

(Accidentally surfed past CNN)

Damn...McConnell (KY) won. Tight race though.

295 EV's still up for grabs (WV just called for McCain). If O's magic number is 96...

CA: 55 (presumed O) -> Magic = 41

Assume FL (27) goes O: -> Magic = 14

Assume OH instead of FL goes O -> Magic = 21.

WA, OR, HI amount to 21 votes. Those are all trending Obama.

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It's interesting MSNBC is calling races noticeably earlier than CNN.

Brian A.
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Ohio Goes Obama

(Dang...I gotta type faster. I'm getting killed by faster guns, here)

I can't see CA going for McCain. I think that puts Obama at needing 21 more, and if HI, WA, and OR hold, it's way over.

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Which network will declare Obama president first?

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Obama pulling ahead again in NC. McCains done when NC is called for Obama.

Colorado 55 to 44 Obama with 10% reporting.

Crack out the champagne (or the Woodford Reserve)!

I think Nobody (not verified) will call CA for McCain.

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My site has just called the election for Obama. Thanks to those who've been visiting tonight!

MSNBC is reporting some great news, Senator Obama is enjoying dinner at home with his family.

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Al Franken is leading right now in Minnesota.

57.7K to 46.9K

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Raise your hands... who is excited?!?! Our national nightmare is over!

Projection time:

IA - Obama

KS, UT - McCain

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Come on Franken, and mostly, GO OBAMA!

As much as I abhor Dole's campaign tactics, as a moderate Republican, it would have been better if she had won and McConell had lost. He will pull the party even more toward irrelevancy.

Add MN to the Obama column.

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No more republican Congressmen in the entire North East.

Wow!

Oprah has arrived at Grant Park.

I believe this is the first time since 1960 that Tennessee did not go with the winner?

In other news, it appears that Rs have taken solid control of the TN Senate.

The TNDP circular firing squad strikes again.

Not to interrupt the party, but this is going to be interesting. Referendum Four got creamed, but Three squeaked out a win.

OK, back to the party! (I'm calling IN, NC, VA, *and* FL for Obama based on the counties that are still out.)

Sad. The South reliably unrepentant.

By the way, this is way late but I recommend BBC America for election night coverage. Easily the most cogent and least shouty and annoying (no malfunctioning holograms!) coverage I have found so far. I think it is channel 260 on DirecTV; not sure about cable.

CNN adds VA too

& Prez elect!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Change is HERE!

Its done-He won!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!11

10:01 CT

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WE DID IT! WE DID IT! WE DID IT!

Change is here, Change we need, Change we want, Change American voted for. YES WE DID!!!

This is the dawning of a bright new day in America.

~Russ

My friends, it has been a great honor and pleasure sharing this moment in history with all of you.

Congratulations to President Barack Obama and here's a toast to better days ahead!

In other news:

GOP takes over TN state House.

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(With apologies to the Obama campaign's graphic design dept.)

I'm more than ready for the final days of Bush and Company, and most happy to see that sentiment is shared on a national level.

Best day ever in American politics??

McCain concedes at 11:25PM ET, urges all his supporters to get behind President Obama.

Real class crowd on hand for McCain's concession speech.

NC remains razor close. It would be nice to see Obama pick up another Southern state, but I'm not sure if there's enough votes remaining for him to make up his small deficit.

It still appears Florida will turn blue.

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I cried, a little, when they called it for Obama (the "tears of joy" type, of oourse).

And I got choked up agin when I saw rainbow flags waving the crowd in Chicago.

What a great day to be alive.

Yes, this sure makes up a lot for the pain we went through the last two pres. elections. I thought I'd never get over that pain. I'm just basking in this. Drank some coffee even 'cause I know I'll be up in a trance for a good while. I had already planned vacation for tomorrow morning, which was the right thing.

Blah blah blah... I'm just giddy. What else to say?

Now, to end the war in Iraq, roll back the warrant-free spy program, restore habeas corpus, make healthcare available to 45 million Americans without it, restore the confidence in the banking system, put the brakes on foreign oil dependency, forestall a global financial crisis, launch a Manhattan Project to supplant the internal combustion engine, and, hell - put Dick Cheney on trial for crimes against humani...

(What? Too soon?)

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I will give McCain some credit for a nice concession speech...

Real classy crowd booing during it though....

No Matter Where you go, There you Are!!!!

Obama exudes every quality a President should have. I never thought we'd get another president we could be this proud of.

An "unverified" guy named Greg Gunn won, if 338 holds.

History!

Those of us who grew up in the segregationist South and remember Bull Conner, Selma, "whites only" signs and a million other injustices heaped upon African-Americans may have a unique appreciation for the scope of Barack Obama's achievement. It's simply good to be alive this day.

Larry Van Guilder

My electoral college picks are still in play (NC?) although Obama may land the bonus states of IN and MT.

Is there a good website to track how the House races are shaping up?

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I've never seen anything like this.

Obama's remarks about the 106 year old woman and the change she's seen and what the future might hold for the next generations... that was something.

I think about what my parents have seen in their lifetime, living through the Depression and fighting in WWII and seeing a man walk on the moon, and sometimes I wondered if America had reached it's peak.

And then you have days like today.

One of the best things Obama said in his speech was that he would listen to the people and he would especially listen when we disagreed with him.

Damn we need a big strong dose of that in our president and the rest of government.

Oops, we're only up to 494 total EVs. So Obama will add going toward 538.

Damn, President Obama has his work cut out for him too, I tell you what. At least we got the right guy for the hard times ahead.

Look at the districts adjacent to the Rio Grande ...

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So much for demagoguery on the immigration issue...

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Just heard a rumor on MSNBC that Rahm Emanuel has been tapped as Obama's Chief of Staff and that he's accepted.

So, what do the election results mean for Tennessee? Will a Democratic Executive and Legislature continue to fork over billions of Federal dollars into ORNL and into an area that votes consistently Republican?

Will Reps. Duncan and Wamp be hung on their own "free enterprise" crosses and be left to benefit from whatever that can deliver?

Alexander obviously understands what is at stake, and continues to offer to reach across the aisle.

Will HHH continue to pander and welcome all the racists and Christian fundamentalists and relegate himself to the same level of significance as Lloyd and Kelvin? Probably. Welcome to East Tennessee.

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Thanks again to The Best Political Team on the Tennessee Internets!

That was fun. Let's do it again four years from now.

I was up in the sunsphere during all of this.
Hell of a party!
Still recovering.

-Sugarfatpie (AKA Alex Pulsipher)

"X-Rays are a hoax."-Lord Kelvin

I have serious doubts about Democrats getting back any kind of control in the State House for the next few election cycles.

I think the problem with too many liberals is their acute lack of political imagination.

Let's see...we're going into a recession, possibly hard, no matter who won the presidency.

At the state level, House Republicans, who have long advocated leaner budgets knowing they wouldn't actually be responsible for them, now find themselves in the position of being in charge when the state may be in one of its worst economic downturns.

It's a little like being chosen as Captain of the Titanic right after it hits the iceberg.

The Democrats should be happy the Republicans will have to make a lot of the tough decisions, shouldn't they?

the problem with too many liberals is their acute lack of political imagination

Or part of the problem might be that imaginative liberals don't run our state party.

Democrats in Tn & Knox County didn't do too hot.

In how many states did McCain run ahead
of Bush? Not many & we were one of em.

Then lost the Tn State House..enough said.

In Knox County Obama,when all the votes are counted,will only be about 4 thousand ahead of Kerry's vote & maybe not that much.I had Obama with 10-15,000 more.

In '08 I don't think we won one county wide office..so winning the '10 at large county commission is dim.

Plus I'm not sure what will happen in '10 with respect to Democrats on county commission in the 2nd & 4th districts.

In the 2nd Amy or Mark will have to go & if they dont work something out a Republican could win.Finbar vs Ed will be a tough race

I'm VERY VERY pleased with Obama becoming president.Enjoyed the hell out of partying with the Democrats last night.

I loved it when Carter won & I loved it when Clinton won but not like I'm loving this one.

I was excited when Obama got in & its been a far out 21 months.

I told all my Republican friends you can call Obama whatever you want now

But come January you'll be calling him Mr.President!!!!!!

I told all my Republican friends you can call Obama whatever you want now

But come January you'll be calling him Mr.President!!!!!!

Hell, yeah. There you go, Bill.

I predicted 200K would turn-out in Knox County.The turn-out was 188,910 a record & beat the 2004 record by 9,293 votes.

I predicted Obama would get 83K.Obama got 70,203..4,282 more than Kerry.

I predicted McCain would get 115K.McCain got 112,999..2,346 more than Bush.

I predicted the 3rd party vote would be 2%..it was 1.53%.

Early vote was 66.4% of the total..in '04 it was 60.3%.

At the UT ward(10-S)the turn-out was 1,811 besting '04 by 427 votes.Obama won the ward with 52.87%.Kerry lost the ward in '04.The 3rd party candidates got 2.45% of the vote.

The Fort(10-N)turned out 2,086 besting '04 by 293 votes.Obama won the ward with 62.76%..Kerry got 56% in '04.The 3rd party candidates got 2.37% of the vote.

Final thoughts:

I thought I had nailed the 200K turn out when I saw the early vote totals.I knew Knox County voters dug early vote but I didn't think it would be 66% of the total.I was thinking more like 60%.

No complaints the '08 turn out did set a Knox County record.

I was disapointed in Obama's total vote.I really thought it would be between 80 & 85K it wasn't close.

The Knox County Republicans did a great job in a bad environment.Pushed McCain to 112K.

Both 10-S & 10-N wards did very well.Both had higher turn-out than '04(+720 votes combined).Flipped 10-S from Republican to Democrat & increased the Democratic vote in 10-N by 6.75%.And like always the 3rd parties did alot better in the 10th ward than anywhere else.

In conclusion:

PRESIDENT OBAMA!!!

Knox Co. always seems to vote against its interests. With so much of the economy based upon government institutions, and the service jobs that benefit from them, you would think that people would see the link.

Sometimes I think it would be best if UT and Oak Ridge were closed or moved, and the area had to rely solely its "proclaimed" god of free enterprise.