Gyroscope

5:07pm. Well, it appears that maybe that no reports from Indiana and Kentucky will be offered until after all the state closes at 6pm. In the past, I thought they would report when the majority of the state closed at 5pm.

4:29pm. OK, so now I am reading a bunch of reports about heavy turnout. But still no summary picture.

2:59pm. I'm hearing a lot of stories about heavy turnout, but no real overall picture. Lots of indications in the last week pointed to Obama's suburb ground game in getting out the vote - is it happening? Or if it was, would the media report it?

12:42pm. Election result maps and reports are all over the net. Here are some of the most interesting. At TalkingPointsMemo they go down to the county level. CNN lets you keep track of favored races of your choice, but the link is really buried. Be sure to register or when you close the browser they disappear.

And it appears that Obama is out to an early lead of 15 to 6 in the popular vote, having won Dixieville Notch NH 15 to 6 in an unprecedented landslide for a Democratic candidate.

10:28am. I see that Pollster.com has moved Ohio from leaning Obama to tossup due to a small decline overnight in Obama's lead there. Other states seem to be holding firm. Need to watch Ohio tonight.

10:19am. Worth reading: Juan Cole's Ghoul's Glossary: the 2008 election.

9:45 am. Going to try this "live blogging" today. Just back from voting. No lines, went straight in, but was told that at 7am the lines were halfway down the block.