OK - The VA fraud fliers and emails PISS ME OFF SO MUCH - No charges PISSES ME OFF EVEN MORE. This is the email for the Informational Officer of the VA State Police: questions@vsp.virginia.gov.

This is a NATIONAL ISSUE, so everyone in the country has a valid reason to email them demanding that charges be pressed. If you know people in VA, think about emailing them to voice outrage. If you have a blog that gets readers, maybe post the email also. The phone number in case you want to file a complaint that way is: Phone: (804) 674-2000

My fantasy is that they will have called it for Obama by the time we land, but I'm pretty sure that won't happen.

Even if it looks like a landslide (which I doubt it will be, popular vote-wise), the networks can't call it too early because they want viewers glued to their coverage all night.

Which is why I'm going to have the TV on and keep obsessively refreshing fivethirtyeight.com, b/c they're going to have "live" returns threads going all night.

Lovely (possibly allergy-inducing) essay from "the dreaded swing voter": My Wife Made Me Canvass for Obama, and Here's What I Learned

No charges PISSES ME OFF EVEN MORE.

Totally. The whole "It was just a joke" thing pisses me off too. Oh, so it's OK then? Call me cynical, but somehow I suspect it was not a joke, and that's just the lame-ass excuse they came up with once they were caught....

Nathan Bedford Forest? Jeez. It's not like it's even someone where they had to dig for unknown skeletons in the closet. That is so fucking wrong.

No shit. And the part about how the name was originally suggested by the Daughters of the Confederacy in protest of the Supreme Court's ruling for integration. Woot.

Gotta love the 1970 graduate, too, who was grumbling about erasing southern history. Lady, there are some aspects of history that while they shouldn't be forgotten, should sure as shit not be glorified.

Even if it looks like a landslide (which I doubt it will be, popular vote-wise), the networks can't call it too early because they want viewers glued to their coverage all night.

Anyone remember the Comedy Central coverage of the '92 election? I'm pretty sure it was Jon Stewart who began their coverage with words to the effect: "At this point we are calling the election for Bill Clinton. Stay tuned for two hours of election coverage here on Comedy Central."

So has anyone waited longer than 90 minutes?

At least 4,000 foreign journalists to cover election

The whole planet is obsessed with the U.S. presidential election - and the world's news media is poised to deliver the goods, subject to interpretation in more ways than one. It is one big cultural moment.

As of Monday more than 4,000 foreign journalists have been granted credentials to cover the campaign finale, according to State Department spokesman Keith Peterson.

"Interest is unprecedented," he said. "And every journalist is looking for their local angle. It's huge in Bangladesh. In France, 'Le Figaro' devoted five pages to the election. The Russians and Nigerians want to know how foreign policy will affect them, the Irish want to talk about the Irish ancestry of Sen. Barack Obama on his mother's side."

The Vietnamese, on the other hand, want to hear about Sen. John McCain, a prisoner of war in Hanoi four decades ago, while the Kenyan audience is keen for insight about Mr. Obama's father, a native of the country.

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While Brazilian journalists will venture out on Route 66 in search of the great American voting experience, Al Jazeera will send 50 reporters to towns in Virginia, Florida, Ohio and other swing states. More than 50 French journalists also will offer their take on the election from Chicago, Phoenix and Manhattan, N.Y., according to Agence France-Presse .

One day, Jen, you and me.

You betcha!

I got a little teary as I poked around the site sumi linked with Obama voting - the thousand kids in line at Penn State (or was it U Penn? Either way - teary).

Although, I remember distinctly having to go off campus to vote when I was in college. Voting for Dukakis. A hundred years ago.

Giddyup, PA, OH, FL, VA and CO! Make it happen, bay-bee!

while you were still sleepin', hon.