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Democrats Gain in Senate, 9:40 p.m. E.T. Democrats may not win a 60 seat filibuster-proof senate majority, but they will definitely pick up a few new seats. Former Virginia governor Mark Warner, as widely expected, is already projected to win the commonwealth's seat being vacated by the retiring John Warner (no relation). More significantly, freshman Senator Elizabeth Dole has lost her North Carolina seat to Democratic challenger Kay Hagan; Dole's last-minute attack ad tying Hagan to an atheist PAC appeared to have backfired. The drag of President Bush continued in New Hampshire, where former governor...
...appearance by running mate Joe Biden and several members of the World Champion Philadelphia Phillies baseball team. Significantly, the appearance was in a heavily white, blue collar district in South Philadelphia, where Hillary Clinton won in the primary by a large margin and the McCain campaign hopes to pick up enough conservative, Catholic Democratic voters to help depress Obama's margin of victory in the city...
...votes in 2004. Polls show Obama strong in all of the same places Kerry was strong - and he has something like 500,000 newly registered Democrats behind him. Even if only a fraction of those new Democrats turn out on Tuesday, it's hard to see how McCain can pick up enough votes to offset all those extra votes. A McCain victory at this point, Madonna said, "would go against everything we know about the state." - By Sean Scully / Philadelphia...
...society you can hope everyone acts with good intentions, but you cannot trust them to always do that," he says. " The greatest irony is that with all the international criticism last year, they knew there were problems. They did some spot checks, but the bureaucratic system didn't pick this up as a significant issue...
...lack of) ambition. News organizations are desperately trying to avoid the stumbles of 2000, when the networks botched the election by calling Florida for both Al Gore and George W. Bush, only to retract those projections. Since that debacle, the networks have faced enormous pressure to make the right pick, while still beating the competition to the airwaves. "My instructions are to make sure you get it right," says Dan Merkle, director of ABC's "Decision Desk" and the man with final say over that network's projections. "But we're obviously in the news business, and we understand...