DON'T FORGET THE LIGHTS | 4:05 AM ET With no immediate resolution in sight, it's time to take a roll call on who's still awake, at the bar or in bed...  DEJA VU ALL OVER AGAIN | 3:35 AM ET The Blog Warrior suspects that "Ohio is the new Florida." And Washington Monthly observes "the most remarkable thing about this presidential election is how nearly identical it is to 2000." Virginia Postrel, who writes a column for The New York Times notes that the old saw about this being the "most important election of my lifetime" may be a bit hackneyed.  I HOPE HE GOT ONE OF THOSE "LEI'D" T-SHIRTS | 3:19 AM ET Despite Vice President Cheney's last-minute visit, the only visit by a major candidate since Nixon in 1960, the Honolulu Advertiser says it's still Blue Hawaii.  THE ENGLISH TAKE THEIR RESULTS DRY | 3:17 AM ET The BBC's Stuart Hughes says, the fat lady's warming her lungs up. The race for the White House will soon be over -- and it looks like removal men won't be needed." Over at the Guardian, the NewsBlog reads John Edwards' body language. "His salutes to the crowd looked more like gestures of defiance than the confident waves of the future vice president."  THE DEBATE OF THE MOMENT? | 2:43 AM ET At 2:30 a.m., the leading question at Eschaton is: Sleep or Leave? BuzzMachine opts to turn in. "Considering all the hemming and hawing on the networks ... I'm going to call it a night (or part thereof)." After Sen. Edwards's speech, the sleep contingent will be gaining momentum. New Zealand is the leading destination for the expats-to-be.  LATE HOUR GRUMBLINGS | 2:41 AM ET "The more I think about it, the more pissed off I am," writes The Daily Kos. Andrew Sullivan simply states: "it's over." Instapundit is impressed with Edwards' non-concession speech: "He's good. I expect we'll see him in the presidential race again." Blogolution.com, however, says the speech was given to "wet, forlorn supporters" in Boston.  READY AND APPARENTLY WILLING | 2:10 AM ET Cleveland.com is prepared to let the spotlight shine on on Ohio and have it stay there. They're reminding everyone about the large number of absentee votes that won't be counted for several days. The Dayton Daily News and the Cincinatti Enquierer, however, state that the jury is out.  QUIET ON THE LEFT | 1:41 AM ET Many of the blogs on the left have fallen quiet, but Daily Kos writes an impassioned letter to his readers, saying it's not over, and "regardless of who takes that oath next January we still have a war to wage."  CONFUSION AT USA TODAY | 1:09 AM ET USA Today seemed to be the first major news organization to declare President Bush the winner, then it quickly pulled back. MSNBC calls Ohio for Bush.  FROM THE POYNTER INSTITUTE | 1:07 AM ET Steve Outing, a senior editor at the Poynter Institute for Media Studies, finds that "some new media don't play by the old rules." Poynter also has taken screen grabs of 101 news Web sites at various times throughout election night. They also showcase newspaper front pages from previous presidential elections and have an interesting collection of political cartoons from around the Web.  CARVILLE SETS OFF A STORM | 1:00 AM ET James Carville, a Democratic political kingpin not working for John Kerry, was so down on Mr. Kerry's Ohio chances on CNN that Instapundit and the National Review posted almost immediately. Drudge has declared President Bush the winner.  ALL ABOUT OHIO | 12:58 AM ET Drudge posted a UPI wire saying that the president has been told that he's won Ohio, and another four years. The other campaign sounds confident as well--Frank Bruni heard a top spokesman refer to a President-elect Kerry on television. President Bush is ahead in the official results, but the American Prospect's blog adds a bit of positive news for Senator Kerry: "This is basically scuttlebutt, but here goes. I hear that John Kerry has run up huge numbers in Ohio that are not yet reflected in the count."  Everyone agrees with something first predicted months ago: Ohio is the Florida of 2004. Knight Ridder's Ohioblog is a good one to follow for now.  COMIC RELIEF | 12:42 AM ET Comedy Central's blog is an excuse for those who would rather look away from the official Ohio count. Anything can happen, they say, even DEWEY DEFEATS BUSH. Also not to be missed: The Onion's 2004 Election Guide  THE VIEW FROM ABROAD | 12:22 AM ET Corine Lesnes, Le Monde's correspondent covering the American elections, discovers the American obsession with bloggers in pajamas. Newsblog, the frequently-updated blog from The Guardian in Britain, observes P. Diddy at the ballot. Stuart Hughes, a BBC News producer, is on the ground at the Bush "victory" party.  VOTE OR DIE UPDATE | 12:19 AM ET Josh Marshall and Andrew Sullivan are among Kerry-backing blogs starting to wonder what's gone wrong, and one obvious culprit is the youth vote, the group that P. Diddy tried to motivate in a "Vote or Die" get-out-the-vote campaign. Mr. Sullivan is blunt once again: "We were all suckered on that one."  FLORIDA TO BUSH? | 11:58 PM ET Most of the networks have now called Florida for Bush, giving the Republican blogs the confirmation that they have been screaming for. Red State claims to be the first to call Florida for Mr. Bush; Instapundit got so frustrated he told the networks, "I'll call it for you"; and the National Review piled on too.  To call the Kerry-friendly early exit polls "unreliable" was convenient for the National Review, and also correct. Some bloggers are starting to feel burned, including Wonkette, who hinted that her staff "really, really believe we got played" by those birdies mentioned earlier.  SOMETHING TO DO | 11:21 PM ET Andrew Sullivan unabashedly admits that the tension is wearing him down: "Goddammit! I just want it to be over!" Unfortunately, it's not over yet, and until the final result seems a hopeless goal for tonight, most of us will have to keep watching. Herewith, something to do...  As the Bush and Kerry columns grow, Slate's William Saletan outlines a few scenarios. The New Republic's Election Day blog compiles dispatches from local reporters across the nation. For something lighter, Metroblogging has some personal voter stories from several cities.  ROLLER COASTER | 10:38 PM ET National Review's The Corner, the blog that listed today 57 reasons that John Kerry can't win, has been an emotional mess today, and lately there's sunshine in nearly every post. Even New Jersey, a state put in Kerry's column by every network and The Times, is back in play, according to one of their sources.  Daily Kos's disappointment over President Bush's projected win in Arkansas was registered, but not too deeply. Mr. Bush's position wasn't in doubt until former President Bill Clinton joined the trail a little more than a week ago, causing some pro-Kerry bloggers to dream a little.  TIMES TV COMPANION | 10:04 PM ET Who are the "three blind mice" on television tonight? The Times's Frank Bruni has identified them in one of his first posts about election night television. He'll be writing late into the night on NYTimes.com...  Go to Watching the Returns  LOOSE ENDS | 9:47 PM ET With the polling data looking tighter, many blogs are trying to kill time until something decisive pops up. Here are a couple of updates.  STOP RALPH NADER! advertisements run on many left-leaning blogs. Did they overhype that threat, along with those G.O.P. observers in Ohio? Kevin Drum of the Washington Monthly predicts that he'll get less than 1 percent of the vote.  Barack Obama, the Illinois Democrat who lit up the Democratic convention, didn't shock anyone with an avalanche win over Alan Keyes. Results of the Senate races are pouring into this page.  The Brookings Institution announced a news conference in two days about the "Direction of U.S. Foreign Policy," which is interesting because the man holding it, James B. Steinberg, was deputy national security adviser to President Clinton and is presumably a candidate for a top job in a Kerry administration. We'll probably be heading in the right direction in that case.  RAPID FIRE | 8:59 PM ET Instapundit, a reservoir of Bush boosting led by Glenn Reynolds, is publishing mini-outbursts on everything from the elections in Nigeria to a wheel tax proposal in his hometown. News from NBC that Kerry is doing well among the 18-29 set leads him to guess that the "bogus draft rumors worked," but perhaps prematurely.  Powerline passed on an Associated Press report that fewer than 10 percent of new voters were young. That blog reached out to an unexpected source for evidence of Bush's strength on Election Day, quoting AOL's exit poll putting his lead at 57-41. At least it tried to add an odd bit of perspective: AOL's poll was "completely unscientific, but is it any less so than the exit polls whose numbers are flying around the Web?"  Inexplicably, Instapundit followed his "bogus draft" post with a victory declaration  over Osama bin Laden. "If he could have bombed us, he would have," he wrote.  CHANGE OF MOOD | 8:17 PM ET At this point in the night, almost anyone can agree with Drudge's latest banner: "ENOUGH OF THE MEDIA POLLS; LET'S COUNT THE PEOPLE'S VOTES!" But how can we ignore the latest projections? Media Matters is monitoring all the major television networks, and they are meticulously recording when each network makes their calls.  So far, everyone agrees with Fox's first three predictions. The Times's electoral map adds Vermont as well.  Still had enough of the polls? Then check out the official results of Ohio, Florida and Pennsylvania.  VOTING BOOTH WATCH | 8:05 PM ET Joshua Micah Marshall's blog woke up from the "friggin nightmare" that was his server problems by slapping a big fat "gonzo" label on Fox News, one of his favorite targets. He said that it has refused to let go of a story on voter fraud in Philadelphia. Deputy City Commissioner Ed Schulgen agress with him. The charges are "absolutely ridiculous," he said.  In other battlegrounds, the Miami Herald reports "no major problems" and somewhat less importantly, "no punch lines that mention Florida." The Cleveland Plain-Dealer's blog saw long lines as the only big problem at Ohio's polls. Democratic fears about voter intimidation by Republican observers never panned out.  ALREADY, DUELING PREDICTIONS | 7:34 PM ET The recuperated Wonkette passes on a Black Table report that a CNN anchor has canceled plans to cover a Bush victory rally. He may want to think again. The National Review is quoting Bush officials sounding supremely confident that he has won.  KICK OFF | 7:02 PM ET Welcome to Watching the Web, a special edition of Times on the Trail, where NYTimes.com will provide a roundup of political chat from the blogosphere.  The major news homepages are predictably leading with articles on the voter turnout along with empty maps of the United States waiting for their political paint. Fox News is the exception, already projecting President Bush as the winner in Indiana, Kentucky and Georgia. No surprises there.  Blogs have been even more aggressive, with The Drudge Report and Wonkette, posting exit polls (traditionally kept secret by major news organizations until the polls close) that showed leads for Senator John Kerry in most battleground states. Drudge said that his "exit poll mania" came from the National Election Pool, while Wonkette coyly attributed "a little birdy."  Democratic blogs like Daily Kos were quick to note the good news in a cautious way, while their Republican counterparts like the National Reviews The Corner immediately rebutted them in post after post and in a top headline blaring "Early Exit Polls 'Very Unreliable.'" Both sides are eagerly waiting more concrete figures.  Demand for the exit polls was apparently very high, and several sites posting them, including Wonkette and Slate, were difficult to reach. Wonkette still seems down.
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