A few friends and acquaintances want to live blog our experience of the 2012 election.

Oh I AM SO READY.

Has everyone listened to the latest This American Life on red state blue state? It was pretty good at toning down my internal frustration with republicans...

Does anyone know anyone voting for Romney? Family, friends, coworkers?

In addition to Obama I also voted for gay marriage, legalizing marijuana, and more charter schools. What interesting things are you voting for in your states?

Charter schools is the most controversial issue in Washington, amongst my friends. Lots of people are on each side... in fact, I doubt it'll win. Even the Stranger suggested voting no.

I have a ton of friends voting for Romney in Alaska, and a small minority of my tech friends. We have nothing on our ballot but president, senator, congressmen local and state and a couple supreme court judges.

You got a link to that stranger article? I am curious.

Here's the election guide: thestranger.com

The latest polling showed charter schools way ahead. slog.thestranger.com 🙈

Nice!

Florida, Ohio, Virginia, North Carolina, and New Hampshire are all going to be closing their polls at 7:30pm... any 2 of those pretty much guarantee an Obama victory. Anyone think this'll all be over before 9pm?

Here's the best swing state bingo page to bookmark: nytimes.com

I'm thinking that the results will be known before the west coast counts our ballots. (Am I supposed to be "branching" these responses? Am I a branch member? So much technology.)

I really hope so.

And I think for the purposes of this branch, no need to sub-branch. #unibranch

They're all gonna be close. I don't think we'll have Ohio and Florida in the clear till after 9.

Yet another live-updating results page: google.com

I went to my small NC hometown for a wedding this weekend, and from what I could tell, every single yard had a Romney sign. If you're voting for Obama, you don't talk about it.

Incumbent St. Helena mayor drove around with a sign on the side of his car the last 3 months that said,
VOTE FOR DEL
HE IS
"THE MAN"
And I might be shallow but I voted for the challenger.

Any local elections get heated where you're at?

Here come the results ... Kentucky for R$, Vermont for Obama...

Kentucky doesn't matter but Vermont does.

Wait, scratch that, neither matter.

This is the most information dense tracker I've found yet: elections2012.npr.org

I am super obsessed with the Elizabeth Warren election. Senate in MA.

Yeah! Keep us updated. Do you think she'll win?

She's up now but it's still too close to call.

This grim early phase is killing me

I remember this happening last time. What time does the surge happen? When west coast polls close?

yeah, I think it's still OK. They just called Pennsylvania and are holding off on Ohio, Florida, and Virginia. Any one of those three could be enough, right?

it's good, it's gonna be okay. We got this.

There's really not a single piece of bad news. Just no unexpected good news (though Florida is closer than I was hoping)

Who called Pennsylvania? I'm just watching live youtube but it's competing with Niko's Thomas the Train watching on my slow ass internet. :)

MSNBC called PA for Obama. elections.msnbc.msn.com

I hear that New Hampshire is called for Obama. I think that that could be the first swing state. Can anyone confirm?

MSNBC called MA Senate for Warren!

YESSSSSSSSS! MSNBC is calling Elizabeth Warren for Massachusetts Senate.

YAY!!!

And Mourdock has lost in Indiana. Obvs. not as clear about God's plan as he seemed.

... and NYT's interactive elections pages are dead.

MSNBC calls Missouri for McCaskill. Good night for Senate candidates who don't have offensive and idiotic views about rape.

Wisconsin projected by ABC for Obama. That's a big deal.

It's all about Ohio now.

You mean Slohio?

I'm calling Ohio and Florida for Obama.

And Colorado and Iowa.

And Virginia.

Well that was a good time.

I'm still waiting for NYT to validate it...

Josh, do you have any news on gays, marijuana, or charter schools? I can't find anything online.

elections.nytimes.com most elections seem to be passing but nine have been called?

Seattle PI says that you guys legalized mary jane and gays getting hitched. Congrats.

Looks good! Still a lot of votes left to be counted.

WA rocks.

Has anyone seen if concession / acceptance speeches have been scheduled?

Romney's still holding out. Watching the Fox News live feed of his HQ.

They say it'll be about 10 mins.

It's on!

AND... it sucked.

Is it over already?!

Romney's speech is. It was about 3 minutes. Obama's going now.

Not surprising. Maybe he was being honest about not having written a concession speech.

Did Obama really sweep the swing states?

It's looking that way. He may have only lost North Carolina and Indiana since last time.