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...Congressman Nick Lampson, who holds Tom DeLay's old seat, would have a tough fight on his hands. With minutes to go till poll closing in Texas (thanks to a tiny sliver of far western Texas around El Paso running on Mountain time), only a few votes had been counted at the other end of the state southwest of Houston, but the early vote shows Republican challenger Pete Olson hanging on to a slim lead with about 51% of the early vote in two of the four counties reporting to Lampson's 48%. The early-vote count comes from...
Ohio has seen its highest ever voter registrations this election year - and an almost commensurate number of legal battles between Republicans and Democrats over which ones should count. It remains unclear which party will gain the upper hand, however, and both candidates continue swinging away at the quintessential swing state, with many neighborhoods far-flung from Democratic Cleveland still in play. By Charu Gupta / Cleveland...
...same boat as the Northeast Ohio Coalition for the Homeless (NEOCH), a left-leaning advocacy group that in 2006 made similar claims about provisional ballots against the secretary of state. Ten days ago, Brunner settled the case with NEOCH by issuing directives on when and how to count provisional ballots...
...past, exit-poll interviewers have oversampled Democrats. Remember 2004? Exit polls projected a John Kerry victory by 3%, while the official count had Bush winning by 2.5%. More recently, exit polls were a mess during this year's primaries, especially in Obama's case, as no one needs to be reminded. Today, this bias may be particularly strong, since Democrats are so gosh-darn exuberant about their candidate - and thus most likely to talk to exit-pollers...
...decent hotels in the hip capital of Reykjavik - like the Centerhotel Thingholt - are as low as $60 a night. Sure, if you go in the late fall or winter you'll get only about five hours of sunlight a day - but Icelanders know how to make those hours count. Move fast - tourist agencies are reporting a huge spike in visitors to Iceland...