Colorado: Arapahoe County: Obama, 107k to 93k, 52% to 45%. Obama is also ahead in Jefferson County. Both are conservative counties that went to Obama 4 years ago.
Update 7:23pm: CBS projects Obama will win Pennsylvania! Colorado: Obama is now winning 52 to 45%, 1/3 of votes are in. Florida: 7 million votes in, they are 600 votes apart. But Miami Dade is barely in yet.
Update 7:20 pm: Florida is a tie. Romney just jumped to 1288 votes ahead, 6 million votes counted. But Obama is winning big in Miami only about 10% of those votes are in. Obama is also ahead in Broward, Palm Beach and Orlando.
Mitt is slightly ahead in NC and VA. Obama leading big in Philadelphia.
Colorado: Romney ahead in Colorado, but only 9% of vote in. Boulder County: Obama has 70% of the vote. Romney was hoping to keep it to 60%. Obama is leading in NH.
Ohio: Cleveland: Obama has 188,000 to 80,000 votes for Romney. That's not good for Romney. Provisional ballots are big -- 200,000 to 300,000 -- and won't be counted for 10 days. So if the margin is less than that, we won't the winner of Ohio 10 days.
Update 7:01 pm: Obama wins Michigan! COLORADO: State results will be here, county results here. No projections in AZ, MN, CO. Exit polls showed a tie in CO. CNN projects there are now 152 electoral votes for Romney, to 123 for Obama.
Romney wins: Kansas, LA, ND, Nebraska (3 of 5),Texas, SD, Wyoming, Mississippi
Obama: Michigan, New York, New Jersey.
Obama is leading in Wisconsin and New Mexico.
CNN projects Republicans will keep control of the House.
Update: 6:54 pm: On the exit polls: Half of all voters said that GW Bush was more to blame than Obama for current economic problems. Only 4 in 10 blamed President Obama. Among independent voters, half said that Mr. Bush should be blamed for the problems. Less than 4 in 10 said that Mr. Obama deserved that blame. The same holds true for moderate voters. Translation: A rejection of the Romney meme that Obama is to blame.
Update: 6:45 pm: The Romney campaign is telling reporters not to rely on exit polls, the real numbers will be different. Obama is at his home in Chicago and will go to the Fairmount Hotel later. Colorado and Wisconsin close in 15 minutes, along with a bunch of other states -- total, about 150 electoral votes. Miami-Dade says 150 optical scanners are being brought into precincts with long lines.
Update 6:32 pm: Romney takes Arkansas. Romney 88, Obama 78, according to Fox News. Fox News is asking every guest what they think of the racial divide, and blacks coming out for Obama. Their analysis is predictably unfair and unbalanced. Huckabee rejects that analysis and says conservatives are voting for Romney, liberals are voting for Obama.
Update: 6:27 pm: CBS just moved Ohio from "tossup" to "leaning" for Obama. LOL, Karl Rove didn't get the message. He's pointing to numbers showing Ohio looks good for Romney.
Update 6:19pm: Romney takes Tennesee: Obama 78, Romney 82. VA is pausing reporting for an hour because people who were in line at 7pm are still voting.
Update 6:00 pm: Romney takes South Carolina, Alabama, Miss., OK. He's leading in Tenn. Obama wins IL, CT, Delaware, Maryland, MA, NJ, RI, DC, Maine (3 of 4 votes). Obama has 78 electoral votes, Romney 71.
Update: 5:52 pm: Mitt Romney takes Georgia. Obama way ahead in Mecklenberg, County, VA. In 6 minutes, polls close in another 16 states, including PA, FL, NH and IL.
Update: If you want to know if your mail-in ballot in Denver arrived, you can check here at Ballot Trace.
Keeping it simple:
- CNN's fill-in, updatable electoral map is here.
The 9 Battleground states:
- Ohio, New Hampshire, Virginia,
- Florida, North Carolina, Wisconsin,
- Iowa, Colorado and Nevada.
I'm keeping my fingers crossed, and will be watching TV and results online. I'll post updates and you can too in comments. You can also add your favorite resources that cut to the chase and skip the predictable banter (no long urls though, get a short one here.
If you are watching the commentary on TV, feel free to let us know what they are saying.