Here are the real-time numbers in Ohio: PRESIDENT CANDIDATE VOTE TOTAL PERCENT WINNER Bush (Rep)* 2794346 51% Kerry (Dem) 2658125 49% % of precincts reporting: 100 margin: 136,221 Official provisional ballot count: County Number, County Name, Provisional Ballots Issued 1 Adams 184 2 Allen 1,374 3 Ashland 629 4 Ashtabula …

How absolutely, depressingly fitting — and neither shocking nor any less tragic for its familiarity — that on the day Americans are expressing their political opinions in the collective polling booth, that a Dutch filmmaker was murdered for creating a film critical of Islam: Dutch film maker Theo van Gogh, …

From ABC News’s The Note, today’s polling place schedule. Please don’t say you have more important things to do. TODAY’S SCHEDULE (all times ET): (Earliest poll open ing and latest poll closing times listed) —6:00 am: Polls in Connecticut open —6:00 am: Polls in Kentucky open —6:00 am: Polls in …

Why would anyone want to be president, especially now? Two words: action and power.

Hitchens flip-flops, Kaus goes insane.

By 10pm tonight pretty much everything that is going to be said about tomorrow’s election will have been said, and it will be time for a little condensed levity to clear the air before the tension ratchets up throughout the day tomorrow (and likely beyond). (click on the pic to …

As I mentioned here, the actual logistics of voting are just as important as intent and rationale: if you don’t know how to vote or where to vote, your voice won’t be heard. That’s why a site like MyPollingSite.com is such a helpful tool. But with legal challenges, varying eligibility …

In case you haven’t been surveyed enough, these fine folks are conducting another; but at least this is about you, specifically: We are conducting an online survey that examines the motivations for accessing the Web, weblogs, chat rooms, bulletin boards and other Internet resources for political information. We are specifically …

This is the time of the season I am most proud to be an American: the day before an incredibly close and hotly contested election poised at a pivotal nexus with the future, when voters are more energized and polarized than they have been in decades. People CARE this time, …

It’s hard not to love the attitude, verve, humor, longevity and physical attributes of Cassandra Peterson, a.k.a., Elvira, Mistress of the Dark. Beginning as a local horror movie hostess on KHJ TV in Los Angeles in 1981, the former Vegas showgirl and Groundlings company member has gone on to become …