| 10:30 PM: | Editorial: So Little Time, So Much Damage. Most presidents put on a last-minute policy stamp, but in President George W. Bush's case it is more like a wrecking ball. NYT. | #4 |
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| 10:06 PM: | Obama beats McCain 15-6 In Dixville Notch. Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama emerged victorious in the first election returns of the 2008 presidential race, winning 15 of 21 votes cast in Dixville Notch, New Hampshire. CNN. | #17 |
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| 9:54 PM: | Obama closes with 'Fired up, Ready to go' Edith Childs of Greenwood, S.C., is the woman who inspired the story. Obama had met her during a campaign appearance back when the Democratic nomination -- much less the presidency -- looked like a long shot. Chicago Tribune. | #23 |
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| 8:41 PM: | The Last-Minute, Anti-Obama Ad Blitz. The final hours include several ads by Republican groups aimed at questioning Obama's readiness for office. NYT. | #16 |
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| 8:34 PM: | Networks May Call Race Before Voting Is Complete. A senior vice president of CBS News, Paul Friedman, said the prospects for Barack Obama or John McCain meeting the minimum threshold of electoral votes could be clear as soon as 8 p.m. — before polls in even New York and Rhode Island close, let alone those in Texas and California. At such a moment, determined from a combination of polling data and samples of actual votes, the network could share its preliminary projection with viewers, Mr. Friedman said. NYT. | #14 |
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| 8:17 PM: | Palin's doctor says she is in 'excellent health' Sarah Palin's doctor in Alaska says she's in excellent health with no known health issues that would interfere with her ability to function as vice president if she and Republican John McCain are elected Tuesday. AP. | #10 |
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| 8:14 PM: | One Day to Go and McCain Is Between Barack and a Hard Place. Tomorrow, Barack Obama will become the first Democratic Presidential candidate since Jimmy Carter in 1976 to win an outright majority of the votes cast on Election Day -- and with it a sizeable majority of electoral votes -- making him the next President of the United States. Pollster.com. | |
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| 7:08 PM: | California GOP Files FEC Complaint Over Obama Visit to Grandmother. Perhaps the most ill-timed press release of the 2008 campaign arrived shortly after 1:30 p.m. today, sent by the Republican National Committee. Washington Post. | #1 |
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| 6:48 PM: | Biden Offers His Take on Girls. In what has become noted and typical fashion, the Delaware senator isn't shy to express his view of the origin of women's strength. Fox. | #8 |
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| 6:44 PM: | Nate Silver: What to Watch For on Election Night. In 2000 and 2004, the outcome of the presidential race was unknown into the wee hours of the morning (and indeed for several weeks thereafter in 2000). This time, it is possible that we will be able to guess the winner of the presidential race relatively early in the evening. Newsweek. | #14 |
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| 6:40 PM: | Key Senate Races To Keep An Eye On. The Republican Party could take a beating in the U.S. Senate Tuesday. CBS. | |
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| 6:38 PM: | Obama's Grandmother's Absentee Ballot will be Counted by State of Hawaii. While Sen. Barack Obama's late grandmother Madelyn Dunham will not live to see the outcome of this historic election, her 2008 vote will count. ABC. | #12 |
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| 6:38 PM: | First town weighs in on election at midnight. The first wave of election returns won't flow in until 7 p.m. ET Tuesday night, but the results in one precinct will be known much sooner. CNN. | #24 |
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| 6:37 PM: | Polls Indicate a Tightening Race as Election Day Arrives. A Pew poll shows Barack Obama with a narrowing lead in the hard-fought presidential race. NewsHour/PBS. | |
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| 6:37 PM: | Final Sprint Is Mostly on G.O.P. Turf. Senators Barack Obama and John McCain are holding 10 rallies across four time zones as Mr. McCain tries to pull off an upset win on Tuesday. NYT. | |
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| 6:36 PM: | McCain Goes Hot-Tubbing on 'Saturday Night Live' He went on 'SNL' to mock and minimize everything he tried to do to get elected--call it a secret double-reverse apology. The Nation. | |
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| 6:35 PM: | Networks Prepared for Historic Night. CBS and CNN are among the networks that will have reporters stationed on election night at the Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta. NYT. | |
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| 6:35 PM: | Obama leads McCain in 6 of 8 key states. Democrat Barack Obama leads Republican John McCain in six of eight key battleground states one day before the U.S. election, including the big prizes of Florida and Ohio, according to a series of Reuters/Zogby polls released on Monday. Reuters. | |
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| 5:50 PM: | Today's Polls, 11/3 (PM Edition) With fewer than six hours until voting begins in Dixville Notch, New Hampshire, the national polling picture has cleared up considerably. Barack Obama is on the verge of a victory, perhaps a decisive victory, in the race for the White House.
FiveThirtyEight. | #11 |
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| 5:33 PM: | Rove Predicts Obama Victory. Karl Rove's final electoral map of the 2008 election cycle points to a 338 to 200 electoral vote victory for Sen. Barack Obama over Sen. John McCain tomorrow, the largest electoral margin since 1996. Political Wire. | #12 |
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| 5:32 PM: | A Closer Look at Nevada. A little state with five Electoral College votes has everyone whipped into frenzy. NYT. | |
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| 5:31 PM: | Palin cleared by Alaska panel in power abuse probe. Alaska Gov. and Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin was cleared on Monday of wrongdoing in an abuse-of-power investigation into the firing of the state's public safety commissioner. Reuters. | |
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| 2:20 PM: | Barack Obama's grandmother dies. Barack Obama's ailing grandmother died Monday in Hawaii, a day before Obama was to stand election for the presidency, his campaign announced. AP. | |
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| 12:20 PM: | Final Newspaper Endorsement Tally. Obama was endorsed by 67 of the 100 papers in the Hotline 100. John McCain has been endorsed by 25 of the Hotline 100. Four of the eight Hotline 100 that chose not to endorse -- the Rocky Mountain News , the St. Paul Pioneer Press , the Indianapolis Star and the Wichita Eagle -- were Bush papers in '04. The Norfolk Virginian-Pilot is the only non-endorsing Hotline 100 paper that picked Kerry in '04. Natl Journal. | |
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| 12:19 PM: | Obama, McCain face off in Wall Street Journal. Both major party presidential candidates made a final pitch to readers of The Wall Street Journal on Monday on the newspaper's opinion page. CNN. | |
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| 12:19 PM: | Cheney's Hometown Paper Endorses Obama. With less than 24 hours before the polls open, Vice President Dick Cheney's hometown newspaper in Casper, Wyoming endorsed Sen Barack Obama for president. ABC. | |
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| 12:18 PM: | GOP-ers chart path to McCain win. Political operative says RNC's internal polling now shows the race is within the margin of error in certain key swing states. Politico. | |
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| 12:17 PM: | Tragedy on the trail. Barack Obama's state director in Nevada, just 44, dies suddenly of heart attack. Salon. | |
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| 12:16 PM: | Poll: Missouri is Deadlocked. The final Public Policy Polling survey is the latest to show Missouri a dead heat with Sen. Barack Obama and Sen. John McCain essentially tied at 49%. Political Wire. | |
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| 12:15 PM: | Poll: Struggles for McCain, Stevens, Berkowitz in Alaska. A new independent poll shows John McCain leading Barack Obama by just more than three points in Alaska, where his running mate, Sarah Palin, is governor. The Hill. | |
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| 12:14 PM: | Abortion Ads Link Obama to "the Culture of Death" Tough spots airing in Missouri and Virginia attack the candidate's vote on the "Born Alive" abortion bill in Illinois. Missouri Right to Life Ad features a crying baby squirming in the dark, says Obama "thought that infanticide was acceptable." Mark Halperin. | |
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| 10:57 AM: | Obama can lead us through troubled times. It is a foregone conclusion that Wyoming's three electoral votes will go to Sen. John McCain. It would be easy for the Star-Tribune to simply agree with the majority of voters in this red state and endorse the Republican candidate for president. Casper Star-Tribune. | |
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| 10:50 AM: | Presidential Swing States (FL, OH & PA) Poll. Democratic Sen. Barack Obama ends his historic bid for the White House with a seven-point lead over Republican Sen. John McCain among likely voters in Ohio and 10 points in Pennsylvania, but with just a two-point, too-close-to-call lead in Florida, according to simultaneous Quinnipiac University Swing State polls released today. Quinnipiac. | |
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| 9:54 AM: | Palin Launches 2012 Campaign. Palin and her closest aides are thinking 2012. They know she's the star of the party's 2008 campaign, as opposed to an often listless McCain. The Nation. | |
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| 9:54 AM: | The blueing of New Mexico. It's long been the quintessential swing state, but this year the state's GOP may find themselves stuck behind a wall of Democratic chairs. Politico. | |
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| 9:54 AM: | Early voting may go nationwide. The unexpected wave of millions of early voters casting ballots for Sens. John McCain and Barack Obama may prompt Congress to mandate some form of early voting nationwide for future elections, experts say. CNN. | |
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| 9:54 AM: | The good and the bad of Campaign 2.0. While many have coined the 2004 presidential election as "the first Internet election," I think this year the campaigns have taken the usage of the Internet to new heights. MSNBC. | |
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| 9:53 AM: | Palin sounds optimistic note in Ohio. Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin told a boisterous crowd in a Democratic suburb of Cleveland Monday that "victory is coming." AP. | |
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| 9:53 AM: | Olbermann Responds to McCain Glee Over SNL Skit. A day after John McCain's campaign was "tickled" by Saturday Night Live's parody of MSNBC's Keith Olbermann, the liberal pundit suggested that the campaign should be focused on more important things. The Hill. | |
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| 9:52 AM: | Palin: Last of a breed. Did Sarah Palin arrive just in time for the culture wars to end? Salon. | |
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| 9:52 AM: | Obama, McCain fire final shots of campaign. Democrat Barack Obama and Republican John McCain took their final shots at each other and barnstormed battleground states on Monday to wrap up a U.S. presidential campaign in which Obama was leading but McCain hoped to pull off a historic upset. Reuters. | |
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| 9:32 AM: | McCain draws small Florida crowd on race's final day. John McCain's first rally of the day, in Tampa outside Raymond James Stadium, only drew about 1,100 people. Local reporters noting that at almost the same spot just before the 2004 election, President Bush drew about 15,000 people. Two weeks ago, Obama drew an estimated 8,000. CNN. | |
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| 7:35 AM: | Today's Candidate Schedule. Where will the candidates be today? Daily Kos. | |
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| 7:34 AM: | Palin campaign stonewalls on medical records. With less than 24 hours to go before the presidential election, Sarah Palin still has not released her medical records and there is no indication the campaign is planning to do so. CNN. | |
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| 6:47 AM: | Republicans Bring Obama's Family Into the Robo Picture. Obscure Republican group NewModelsUSA.org launches a call in Pennsylvania focusing on Obama's aunt living illegally in Boston, his former pastor Rev. Wright. "Barack Obama. His pastor preached God damn America. His aunt is living in America illegally." Mark Halperin. | |
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| 6:47 AM: | Obama Shows Bigger Lead in Polls That Include Cell Phones. Political polls that include cell phone users show Obama leading McCain by an average of 10 points, versus just over five points in land-line-only surveys, notes a Sunday survey put together by Nate Silver, founder of the electoral projections site FiveThirtyEight. Wired. | |
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| 6:46 AM: | Obama: Even-keeled. The New York Times' Zeleny writes about what may be one of the secrets to Obama's success, if he wins tomorrow: his even-keel demeanor. MSNBC. | |
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| 6:45 AM: | McCain: The Wright stuff? With the Pennsylvania GOP airing an ad on Jeremiah Wright, Politico's Martin asks: What if McCain had played the Wright card. MSNBC. | |
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| 6:14 AM: | Final Presidential Estimate: Obama 55%, McCain 44% The final Gallup 2008 pre-election poll -- based on Oct. 31-Nov. 2 Gallup Poll Daily tracking -- shows Barack Obama with a 53% to 42% advantage over John McCain among likely voters. When undecided voters are allocated proportionately to the two candidates to better approximate the actual vote, the estimate becomes 55% for Obama to 44% for McCain. Gallup. | |
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| 4:57 AM: | Obama: "Right Wing" Attacks on Wife "Completely Out of Bounds" Looking back at the race, the Senator tells CBS that attacks on Michelle Obama from a "set of right-wing media outlets" angered him. "I just feel like family are civilians, and they don't sign up for this stuff... They really should be bystanders in this process, even if they're campaigning for you." Mark Halperin. | |
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| 4:57 AM: | Superstition, strategy in Obamaland mix. Insiders fret over early voting numbers and polling but also take comfort in unscientific rituals. Politico. | |
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| 4:56 AM: | McCain Lays Out His Closing Argument. The Arizonan explains what he's fighting for in a WSJ op-ed Monday. Focuses on the economic crisis, taxes, national security and more. Mark Halperin. | |
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| 4:55 AM: | McCain team thinks 'undecideds' will tip election his way. McCain campaign manager says undecideds are still the key. USA Today. | |
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| 4:54 AM: | Reason to Believe. At a time when America so desperately needs to begin anew, there is reason to believe that this time, we will will get it right. The Nation. | |
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| 3:28 AM: | What A McCain Win Looks Like... There are some states that truly do appear to be "must-wins" for McCain. In each and every one of the 624 victory scenarios that the simulation found for him this afternoon, McCain won Florida, Georgia, Missouri, Indiana and Montana. He also picked up Ohio in 621 out of the 624 simulations, and North Carolina in 622 out of 624. If McCain drops any of those states, it's pretty much over. FiveThirtyEight. | |
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| 2:41 AM: | Clues to election result could come early. Trends in the race between Democrat Barack Obama and Republican John McCain could become clear soon after the first polls begin to close at 6 p.m. EST in Indiana. Reuters. | |
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| 2:35 AM: | McCain to Stump on Election Day. Mr. Davis said that Mr. McCain would campaign in Grand Junction, Colo., and New Mexico on Tuesday, after he votes in Phoenix, and that he would leave sometime in the late morning, or "whenever he wakes up -- it's going to be a late night." He was referring to Mr. McCain's plan to campaign in seven cities in seven states on Monday. NYT. | |
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| 2:30 AM: | Obama leads McCain in 6 of 8 key states. Democrat Barack Obama leads Republican John McCain in six of eight key battleground states one day before the U.S. election, including the big prizes of Florida and Ohio, according to a series of Reuters/Zogby polls released on Monday. Reuters. | |
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| 2:27 AM: | Reassurance for Dems in NBC/WSJ Survey. Of all the polls out late tonight -- and I do hope to have some sort of midnight update to the polling thread -- the one that ought to give Democrats the most reassurance is the new poll out from NBC and the Wall Street Journal, which gives Barack Obama a 51-43 lead. FiveThirtyEight. | |
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