There will always be a spot in my heart for you.

As for gay marriage, I can understand why all of the candidates are against it because they want to keep church and state separate + they want to secure the religious vote, however I live in California and I voted NO on prop 8 which means I support same-sex marriage. A bunch of members of the church were congregated outside on the street and they saw my McCain signs and thought I was voting yes on 8 but I told them that I don't think government should interfere with people's sex life or reproductive rights.

Well, the News networks are using exit poll results as part of their calculations. They have more results than they say they do, but are cautious on what they announce just in case the results change.

102 is what CBS is showing.

He just won Pennsylvania!

McCain just got Arkansas.

I've been flipping back and forth between CNN, CBS, ABC.... and of course they're all on different levels of reporting results.... so the numbers vary sometimes.... the popular vote is REALLY close

as of now (8:34):

ABC -
Obama 102
McCain 49

CBS -
Obama 102
McCain 45

CNN - (wow, they're slow)
Obama 81
McCain 34

I don't think they're slow. They goofed up the last few election cycles so they're being careful.

Yahoo still has Obama at 82, and McCain at 34.

I doubt they've got their own analysts. Probably feeding off on CNN CNN now shows 102 btw

IM ****ING PUMPED RIGHT NOW! ALL of Michigan betta had vote for Obama.

CNN is now projecting Obama with 174, McCain with 49 after 9:00 polls closed.... meaning that they are expected results but not official.

Barack Obama will be the new president of the United States of America

Anyone have the latest numbers of Young/African American voter turnout compared to 2004?

CNN now has Obama at 174 & McCain at 49

Can somebody explain me the US voting mechanism?
Why, if according to votes they're 50/50 does Obama have 175 "electoral votes", why do they need 270 to win?
What exactly are electoral votes?
Don't you just count everyone's votes and according to who gets the most votes, the winner is decided? :-/

Obama:175
McCain: 70

Nope, U.S. doesn't go by popular vote. People vote for people in the electoral college who pledge that they will vote for the population's favor. 48 states have a winner take all, in which ALL electoral votes go towards the candidate in that state.

Obama won Michigan.

GO OBAMA!!!!!

Georgia has a bunch of FOOLS in it. CNN just stated about how large an African American population it has, and yet it wasn't enough to help Obama win that state?

No, unfortunately we have to be complicated
Every state has a certain amount of "Electoral votes" which depends on each state's number of Senators and Representatives, my state has 2 senators and one representative, so we have 3 electoral votes. Whichever candidate (it was Obama in my state) wins the popular vote in that state gets the electoral votes for that state (so all 3 in my state went to Obama).... you need 270 total electoral votes (out of all the combined votes for all 50 states) to win because there are 538 in total, half of 538 is 269, and you need a majority of 270 to win the election.... even if a candidate receives the majority of the popular vote nationwide (the total number of votes that they received by the actual citizens who voted, not the electoral college), they can still lose the election due to electoral college vote tallies, but that will not be the case here.... Obama will win both probably.