Buried half way down in one of the less obvious features is the fact that the black guy is polling ahead nationally and in all of the states that matter, and that - as a passing footnopte of no obvious interest or relevance - his last Ohio rallies have been getting audiences of 60-80,000.

Also amusing - no mention of the mass defections from the Repubs to Camp Obama. Or of the Obama ground game.

McCain remains relaxed and confident, obviously - much made of the fact that 'The Mac is Back.'

I hope there's someone standing by with Lysol for those exploding brains at BBC Election HQ.

It's really hard to get a valid population for those things.

Obama wins in earliest vote in tiny Dixville, NH | AP

Barack Obama came up a big winner in the presidential race in Dixville Notch and Hart's Location, N.H., where tradition of having the first Election Day ballots tallied lives on.

Democrat Obama defeated Republican John McCain by a count of 15 to 6 in Dixville Notch, where a loud whoop accompanied the announcement in Tuesday's first minutes. The town of Hart's Location reported 17 votes for Obama, 10 for McCain and two for write-in Ron Paul. Independent Ralph Nader was on both towns' ballots but got no votes.

I don't think the Indy people were ready for the swarm of Chicagoans who descended upon their little town.  They were pretty unorganized in the morning; they didn't have enough walk packets ready for all the people there, but by the time we got back from our first outing, everything was running like a well oiled machine.  It was a pretty dramatic improvement.  They also had 44 staging areas in the city, which is impressive because it's a small city.  All these hotel rooms became impromptu staging locations.  In ours, there were a couple of nice old women who cooked up soul food for all the volunteers.  I guess that was their way of helping out.  That was some spicy chicken....

On the way home, we were pulled over for speeding.  LOL.  Also, we were listening to Bruce Springsteen's The Rising.  I have to say, I had one of those moments where you are jerked out of your skin and see how profound things are.  4 complete strangers, who got up before the sun to drive through the heartland to do their civic duty.  Listening to "Into the fire", realizing how historic this election was...  I got goosebumps.

Because we were canvassing Dem voters, there was positive response.  But I will add that just walking down the street, people driving past and out in their yards would see us in our Obama gear and wave, honk, shout out.  And every gas station or restaurant we stopped at, the person behind the counter wanted to talk about the election, and were supporting Obama.

He's not expected to win IN.   But it is now within the realm of possibility.  Worst case scenario, we make the GOP spend their cash defending it and a lot of people who never vote go vote.  Best case, he wins it.

"Pretending that you already know the answer when you don't is not actually very helpful." ~Migeru.