How the other half votes, from TPM Reader DP:
I was directly behind RNC Chair Ken Mehlman this morning when I came out to vote. He lives up my street on Capitol Hill. When a poll worker asked whether he wanted to vote on an electronic machine or use a traditional pencil and paper ballot, he chose the latter.
So Mehlman won’t drink from the poison cup? Actually, DP says the line for paper ballots was much shorter than for the electronic machines.
Is George Allen in trouble? No one in DC would know, says Karl Rove, because everyone there relies on the “elitist” Washington Post for news. That and other new Rove-isms here.
Touchscreen voting problems in suburban St. Louis–a vote for McCaskill shows up as a vote for Talent.
MSNBC on the saturation robocalls as a blog-generated story.
FBI investigating reports of voter intimidation in Democratic areas of Virginia.
Over at Election Central we have charted all the races in which two of the big three ratings outfits–Cook Political Report, CQ Politics, and the Rothenberg Political Report–are in agreement on the likely outcome.
Might this headline on CNN become a sort of epitaph for the Republican Majority?
Bonds rally on election bets: Market surges on hopes of fiscal discipline created by Democrat-controlled Congress; dollar mixed.
Yep.
Over at TPMMuckraker, Justin has an interview with a poll watcher in Arizona who reports that a trio of men–one with a firearm visible–are harrassing Hispanic voters at a polling station in Tuscon.
The poll watcher is a member of the Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund. The group has notified the Department of Justice and the FBI and were told by the feds–get this–to keep an eye on the situation.
I think they call this blaming the messenger.
Sen. Conrad Burns (R-MT) lashes out at local paper for running a USA Today poll showing him down.