More (anecdotal) good news: From one of my windows, I can see the walkway to the polling center in my small NJ town. During most elections, until about 5 or 6 in the evening, people show up on that path only intermittently. Today since 8 a.m. we have observed a veritable ~parade~ of voters making haste to cast their votes – without interruption. So many cars are in that road, the street looks more like a parking lot. And those crowds have been growing, not receding.

Yes, this is in true-blue NJ – but where even my union Democrat friends and neighbors have all turned against the zer0.

I don’t know what to make of the voter turnout reports. It sounds too good to be true. Crazy GOP turnout in Florida, but I haven’t heard anything about Dem turnout. Turnout in Madison, WI is about the same as the recall (read, low) and GOP turnout much stronger. Am I seeing this because it is what I want to see, while not seeking out contrary info?

I’m trying not to get my hopes up, but it is hard.

Finding all the wood I can to knock on, but I think we can pretty much change Colorado from blue to red. GOP won early voting by +3. Dems were up nearly +2 in 2008. That’s a huge swing. GOP election day performance also expected to outpace 2008. I will say that Obama won Colorado by nearly 9 pts in ’08, so this can be way premature, but as now, looks like (if you don’t include FL . . . which I don’t) Colorado may be the first swing state we can count in our column.

Voted mid morning and spotted a guy voting with ID that didn’t match his voter card.
They let him vote anyway (groan). GOP and its lawyers have his pic and the address he gave. Lets get out the vote and prevent voter fraud.
They (GOP) think its a poll to poll voter fraud ring they have been aware of for some time. Watch for this!

man in gorilla suit votes.

http://youtu.be/p10E4Htpy_c

Seeing early reports of strong GOP turnout. Ari Fleischer tweets his sources telling him GOP turnout equal are better than 2004. Mark Halperin tweets from Romney and GOP sources that turnout is high across all battleground states. Don’t know if we can glean anything from that, but thought I would pass it along.

First exit poll information from tweets from CBS News: 60 per cent of voters thought economy was most important issue. Of those 39% say it’s improving; worse 31%; same 28%, so only 4 in 10 say it’s getting better.

More from the CBS National Exit Poll—46% say nation is on right track, wrong track 52%.

I live in MA too.

And I agree with the way you voted on the ballot questions.

Here’s hoping that Scott Brown can pull it off. Elizabeth Warren is everything I can’t stand about the modern Left.

(but even Romney doesn’t expect to win MA)

Actually, I heard some Dems actually say it publicly: When Obama was leading Romney in the polls, we lock in as many Obama voters as possible, just in case Obama peaks too early.

I’m pretty sure I heard that on POLITICO or WPost or somewhere.

Romney won’t win MA, but Brown easily could. I get a lot of flac on this site for complaining about the way Romney governed my state, and I understand that it’s a lesser-of-two-evils thing, but I can see why a lot of Bay Staters don’t support him. Brown, on the other hand, has done quite a decent job as a center-right politician, balancing the interests of the state with the larger financial interests of the country. Plus, Mass is a boon to federal tax revenues— we take barely $0.80 in federal spending for every $1.00 we pay in tax revenues— so though some people might complain about the culture, we’re actually a model of self-sufficiency and good finances.

Happy to vote you up… seems like there are a lot of liberal trolls out tonight, so it’s nice to have a civilized exchange. Best of luck to all of us in the rest of the night.

Health Care was at 17%; deficit 15%…..no other breakdowns available.

At 3% reporting, the Indy suburbs and nearly all the rural vote has yet to be counted as well. Not bad news at all, as we don’t yet know the turnout in urban areas.

AP shows Obama ahead in FL, while the New York Times show the exact opposite?

Mourdock is losing solid McCain counties around the state…

I know you have, CSO! I’m just upset that Orly Taitz seems to keep leaking onto the more intelligent discussions around these parts. Obama’s overseen a terrible economy, regardless of where he was born, and he was born in the United States. So I just don’t understand why so many people insist on saying a Kenyan is ruining our economy, where saying a Hawaiian is ruining our economy is far more accurate, and a better justification for voting him out of office NOW!

The AP/NYTimes results are a bit messed up in FL. Romney leading in Leon County with 80% in, with more than 60%. Tallahassee.

Florida right now is Obama 51 Romney 48. Let’s hope Mitt can close that gap…..state is a must win.

Chesterfield County is concerning. Mourdock and Akin are probably gone.

Fox has called PA senate race for Casey over Smith

I’m absolutely shocked that my Indiana Hoosiers are allowing a single debate misstatement to overwhelm Joe Donnelly’s support of Obamacare and a failed stimulus. I will be deeply disappointed if Donnelly wins this race…and shame on my home state if it happens.

PA also called way too early.

It was not a misstatement, Mourdock made it clear that it was not a misstatement, and you should not be surprised. It was a tight race from the minute Mourdock won the primary.

The Romney campaign’s strategy for victory has just crashed.

Awake! Fear! Fire! Foes! Awake!

With all due respect…Christie is a good guy…the Muslim baiting is foolish. We all just need to calm down.

Virginia probably going to Obama too, looking at Chesterfield County.

Mandel and Mourdock already down.

No. Norfolk is at 0%, but Va Beach is only at 7%. Likely to cancel each other out. Some Western VA counties not reporting, Portsmouth reporting most all precincts. Albermarle most all precincts, Salem and Roanoke County not reporting many precincts. With Romney’s lead I think VA is going Romney.

Interesting. In 2000, the networks called states alot quicker for Gore than for Bush. Seems to be happening again tonight? Romney remains at 50% in popular vote.

Boehner in his victory speech already talking about sharing and working with the other party and how there’s no mandate for raising taxes.

And you pretending to be disappointed?

Yeah. Like Romney, right? GMAFB.

It now looks as if Romney now must win almost all of the states outstanding to win. Tough task….not giving up yet.

It’s really bothering me that Florida is so close, and that just a tiny bit of Gary Johnson’s votes would tip the difference.

looks like obama somehow has florida and ohio. this is done. i’m going to go hit the jack daniels now. another 4 years of debt and deadlock.

Unbelievable….never thought this would happen. Sarah Palin just brought up a good point. The lack of response to the Bain Capital ads may have hurt Romney. He incredibly was able to replicate the mistakes made by two other Massachusetts candidates…Dukakis and Kerry.

Never…never let attacks go unanswered.

Also, I suspect that–fair or not—Chris Chrsitie may want to get prepared for an avalanche of criticism. I’ve seen some already pop up on Twitter.

his days as a front runner republican are over if Obama wins……

Wisconsin still has not been called. Repeat: The Associated Press still has not called Wisconsin.

Romeny’s lead in the popular vote continues. Amazing. Could states have been called too early?

Projecting out this race, when you include states expected to go as expected…minus the states too close to call, you get Obama up 251-191. If Romney wins FL, VA, NC (getting close there, he leads by 3) and OH…that gets him to 266….three states would be outstanding…IA, CO and NV….get one of those and your over the top.

I’m not giving up on this yet.

Why the hell did George Allen concede?

Strongly disagreed. If anything, the Republicans saved their best candidates for 2016, when they don’t have to run against an incumbent. Christie is a more than capable leader and would make an outstanding president.

WI is now trending blue, after having trended red for awhile… if romney thought WI call was out of line, they would have called Fox on that… i cant’ remember what state it was that Bush camp called and contested media call on but romney hasn’t refuted….

It’s over…say hello to permanent Obamacare, high gas prices, higher taxes…the works. America as we know it will be a thing of the past. We now go the way of Europe..and what a shame it is.

i said last night that O camp knew something about this election just like they knew SCOTUS ruling on Ocare… the US has changed….

Karl Rove is vehemently disputing Ohio call on Fox News.

kowalski
The fact that Oabma will lose the popular vote to romney – as I predicted long ago – will never be mentioned.

But I think we can all take some time to thank Mitt Romney for his hard work, as well as Republicans across the country for theirs.

We can also take some time to piss on John Boehner’s home state.

true, now lets get ready for 2014, 2 years of Obama unhindered……we can use that…….

What….there won’t be elections in 2014 and 2016, and beyond? Yes, it’s a tough night, but we haven’t lost everything. Nothing in politics is permanent, so never, never give up. There will be better days ahead.

Romney popular vote lead down to 222,000 votes.

Not to be snippy, but who cares at this point?

Stop letting people like Rove lie straight to your face about what’s happening.

80-yard

Minimum Obama total–272 electoral votes, even without Ohio. It’s over.

This is a frustrating loss. As I write, Romney still leads the popular vote by about 134,000 votes…amazing. One can only wonder what might have happened had Romney not spent so much time in Boston during the summer while letting the Bain Capital attacks go unanswered.

1) Message
2) Machine

These things need to be changed. The manifesto ought to stay, for now.