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So from my cursory reading, the big topics on blogs are:

• High turnout, everywhere except tombking's precinct.
• Problems with voting machines.

There's even trouble in my county! Santa Clara County voters are supposed to have a choice of paper or machine ballots... but the election workers don't really know how to handle the paper ones. Aaand, a machine in Santa Clara can't save votes. Check out the picture.

I don't care. I'm excited.

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Talking Points Memo's election day survival guide, including this note which many of us will want to keep in mind:

Exits come out in a several batches over the course of the day. Democrats, on average, tend to vote later in the day than Republicans. Not always, but that's the pattern, for fairly straightforward demographic reasons. And for that reason their exit poll numbers tend to get better over the course of the day. That was strikingly so in 2000. So if you see less than perfect numbers plastered around in the early afternoon, don't let that rattle you.

Right now it's all about getting people to the polls and keeping them there, despite long lines, hunger, thirst, fatigue, restless children, intimidation, fraud. If you can do anything today to help out the Democrats--besides voting, which I assume all of you who are eligible are doing or have done--please do it.

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Minnesotans: I'm enjoying the MNPolitics blog today, with its ward-by-ward reports on voter turnout and other events of the day. I was also encouraged by last night's post on "The Youth Vote".

City Pages has an election blog, with this tidbit: "People leaving polling places in Cincinnati, Ohio, are receiving a particularly appropriate sticker: 'I Think I Voted.'"

I'm going to lunch and then to be a poll watcher, where I'll be mostly cut off from news, and then to local Dem HQ for the victory party. Have a great day, everyone.