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The South Dakota abortion ban has FAILED. And teh Colorado abortion ban has FAILED! YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!! McCAIN: Missippi, West Virginia, Georgia, Texas, Utah

OBAMA: IOWA

Nevada, Montana, FLORIDA, Virginia, Missouri 74% votes counted, Indiana 84% vote counted, Colorado, too close to call

Salon Live Blog

Glenn Greenwald (8:58 pm EST): A sign of how devastated the GOP is: the Fox panel is now actively considering whether this is no longer a "center-right country," but instead is now a "center-left country" -- the topic we focused on here earlier today. They're feeling so defeated, so repudiated, that they are on the verge of relinquishing one of their most central articles of faith.

OPEN LEFT

A text message from Birmingham Better Democrat Josh Segall.

Large turnout, we surpassed 04 turnout around 2pm.

Also, I talked to some high school students doing volunteer work. They were very political but not in the 'political nerd' sense. They were normal high school students, and they told me that politics is very much discussed around school. One of them said me today that there are random heated arguments in geometry class, and there's very little the teachers can (or want) to do when they break out. One girl had skipped six days of classes to ... register voters, and had registered over 300 of them after meeting up with other Obama volunteers through the Obama blog.

Andrew Sullivan

After the last few papers came trickling in, the final tally (according to Wikipedia) in the endorsement race is 495 newspapers for Obama, 215 for McCain (40.5 million circulation to 12.4 million)
Dailies: 296 to 180
Weeklies: 111 to 32
College papers: 78 to 2
Alternative weeklies: 57 to 0