Cool, I'll post some useful information in this thread.
This is a list of poll closing times around the country. Will give us an idea of when stuff will be called. I expect that the first states to be called will be SC for McCain and VT for Obama, both right at 7 pm.
Marc Ambinder over at The Atlantic has a list of counties that will be indicators in PA, NC, NV and CO. Also in FL, VA, and OH.You can use the
DKos scoreboard to watch results come trickling in. Or if you don't like clicking on Kos' site, try the
CNN Election tracker. I like the Kos tracker, though, it's easy to use and fuck around with. Hopefully it gets updated in a timely manner on election day.
For my election night drinking game, I have decided to drink a bottle of Miller High Life (the champagne of beers, natch) for every Senate seat the Dems take from the GOP. And if/when Obama wins, I'll buy a cheap and shitty bottle of actual bubbly to pop open. I plan on being tore up from the floor up Wednesday morning.
Also, here are my final predictions:
Obama 54% to McCain 45%.
Obama 386 to McCain 152 in the electoral college.
Obama will carry all of the Kerry states plus Iowa, New Mexico, Virginia, Ohio, Florida, North Carolina, Indiana, Colorado and Nevada. Plus my super special upset states: Georgia!, Montana, North Dakota and Nebraska CD-2. McCain will barely hold him off from getting 400 electoral votes by narrowly winning in Missouri, Arizona and Louisiana.
The Dems will win 36 House seats, including both of the Diaz-Balart brothers seats in south FL, Dave Reichert's seat in WA-08, Michelle Bachman's seat in Minnesota and John Shadegg's seat in AZ-03, which will take three days of careful counting to confirm.
The Dems will win 10 Senate seats: VA, CO, NM, NH, OR, AK, NC, KY, MN and GA. This will allow them to get a 60 seat super majority in the Senate and still tell Lieberman to fuck off.
I will call my conservative friends up throughout the night and tell them that I plan on exhuming Ronald Reagan's corpse and pissing on it.