I have a visceral dislike of Chris Shays. He has this whiny, passive aggressive weasel-y manner that just bugs the hell out of me. I have been tempted several times to put up a cartoonishly anti-Shays website at the URL www.chrisshaysisabitch.com. On the occasons where I have checked, that domain has been open.

Shays went down tonight. So I can now adjust my potential domain. It could be www.excongressmanchrisshaysisabitch.com

MSNBC just called Ohio for Obama. If that holds and he really has New Mexico, then this thing is over!

Fox calls New Mexico for Obama. yay!

CNN calls Mitch McConnell holding onto his senate seat. Fuck.

Liddy Dole loses her senate seat as of 8:30 eastern according to MSNBC.

Obama continues to hold that 200k vote lead in Florida.

MSNBC calling Georgia for McCain. The senate seat isn’t looking great there, either. No one I’m watching has called it yet, though.

Exit polling in Virginia makes this one look like a real nailbiter, but still probably leaning toward Obama.

I wish I could find the exact numbers that CNN is using in Florida. They’re showing Polk, Osceola, Orange, and Seminole counties all going for Obama. Obama carrying Polk or Seminole counties is a miracle. It’s believable, though, because they’re also showing Tom Feeney getting his ass kicked. Feeney was Speaker of the House in the legislature. He was JEB! Bush’s running mate in his first run for governor. He’s everything you’d hate in a Tom Delay style, gerrymandering, vote suppressing, arrogant, corrupt son of a bitch type of Republican. If he loses tonight, I’ll be ecstatic regardless of what else happens.

Susan Collins held her seat in Maine. Frankly, I’m not surprised by that and never saw it as a likely Democratic pick up.

MSNBC is calling the entire northeastern corner of the country for Obama, including both New Hampshire and Pennsylvania. The exit polling must be pretty damn strong because their calling PA with 0% of precincts reporting.

FoxNews and CNN are not calling Pennsylvania yet.

I’m watching’ McCain’s last statement on the election until after the results are final. He’s totally being the brave soldier right now. His expressions, tone of voice, and body language belie his words.

AP Exit polling says that 1/3rd of privatization fanatic Mitch Daniels’ in Indiana voted for Obama.

First significant Florida numbers that I’m seeing look a little weird to me. It’s only 2% of precincts reporting, but Obama has a nearly 200,000 vote lead. I’m suspicious.

The first CNN numbers didn’t add up to 100% or anything close to it either. I’ll need to check that again when we get closer to half the vote.

The first set of results are rolling in and they’re looking good. Indiana and Georgia are too close to call. The CNN “your races” widget updates with actual vote totals fairly quickly.

My first disappointment of the night is CNN projecting Mitch Daniels to keep the governor’s job in Indiana. Daniels is a privatization zealot. If Indiana Democrats were ever going to unseat an incumbent Republican governor, this would have been the year to do it. In the results coming in so far, he’s walking all over former congresswoman and Clinton administration official Jill Long Thompson.

About ten days ago, I saw Tim Robbins on Real Time with Bill Maher. Robbins started off his appearance by talking about voter suppression and how you would need to fight it if you showed up to vote and weren’t on the list.

Tim Robbins was not on the list at his polling place this morning. This is the same polling place where Robbins voted in the primaries. It is, he claims, the same polling place where he has voted for years and years. Robbins was forced to go to the main board of elections office to have his registration verified and then was able to vote.

Irony or retribution?