Omaha goes blue

Obama won Omaha, Nebraska.  (Nebraska and Maine are the only states that split its electoral votes.)

Early voting continues to break records

The latest on early voting turnout:
The numbers themselves are staggering.
“The aggregate number was shocking,” said Michael McDonald, an associate professor at George Mason University who compiles early-voting statistics, who added that his running total of early voters now tops 16.5 million. “Looking at them, they’re defying all the trends we’ve seen in early voting.”
He and [...]

Early voting underway

The folks over at NRO are eager to paint the lower-than-expected early turnout in Ohio as a bad sign for Obama’s GOTV efforts.  I’m not sure what to make of it myself, but would note that there’s still lots of time left until those ballots are due.
Meanwhile, North Carolina officials are bracing themselves for high [...]

Early voter turnout in Ohio

Apparently lighter than expected, but still pretty darn high:
Elections officials said more than 4,000 people cast early votes in Franklin County, including 668 who also registered to vote, then immediately cast a ballot.
About 2,300 voted in Hamilton County, home to Cincinnati, and around 3,000 voted in Cuyahoga County, the state’s most populous county and a [...]

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The Great Schlep

This Sarah Silverman video makes me wish I were Jewish.

The ground game

An interesting dispatch from Colorado over at FiveThirtyEight.com, comparing the campaigns’ organizational strategies:
To be a professional poker player, one success principle you must learn is “Losing the Minimum.” Everyone who plays seriously knows that players go through stretches where they can’t catch a break and make a series of strong 2d-best hands that cost them [...]

More on the money

This post over on The Democratic Strategist analyzes the campaigns’ relative financial states in a bit more detail.  While Obama is on track to far out-raise McCain’s federal election grant, the RNC can obviously continue to fundraise and so far has much more cash on hand than does the DNC.  Matt Compton says that despite [...]