Wolf Blitzer as CNN calls the Ohio Senate race for Sherrod Brown and the New Jersey race for Bob Menendez.

Bill Nelson routed Cruella.

Follow the House races here The highlight:

Florida 22

Dem Klein 16,215 51%

Rep Shaw 14,708 47%


9% reporting

Bob Casey, Jr. is the new Senator from Pennsylvania.

Dem pickup. 5 to go.

He wins the Massachusetts governorship.

The first African American to win a Governorship since Doug Wilder.

Good for Patrick and good for Massachusetts.

Via BBC, Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri Maliki said he expects Saddam Hussein to be executed by the end of the year.

So much for appeals. How can the appeals judges even read the record that fast?

What a sham of a trial system.

Not a surprise.

Lugar wins in Indiana.

here. The highlight:

IN-08

Dem Ellsworth 41,145 62%
Rep Hostetler 25,539 38%

32% percent reported.

ELLSWORTH declared the winner by CNN. Donnelly and Baron Hill leading their GOP opponents. 3 Dem pickups in Indiana look likely.

here The highlight:

Kentucky 03

Dem Yarmuth 94,401 50%
Rep Northup 90,691 49%
81% of precincts reporting.

UPDATE: Yarmouth leads 117,000 to 110,000 with 4% left to count. It has not been called for Yarmouth. I do not know why. I am calling it. Yarmouth wins.

CNN: 16 precincts in Cuyahoga County Ohio (near Cleveland) were ordered to stay open till 10pm due to voting problems.

I'll steal this from TNR on Indiana, where polls close at 6:00 p.m., or 2+ hours from now:

Diebold is a prominent source of voter anger, but it isn't the only company that screws up our elections. Election Systems & Software claims to be "the world's most experienced election management company." If that's true, the company's performance has become a compelling argument against the privatization of election management.

From Imboden, Arkansas:

ES&S has struck again, causing more frustrations at the polls. "It was hectic because we were backed up all the way double line to the door and couldn't get them out," said Imboden poll worker Iva Jean Smith.

Around 7:00 a.m., most of the precincts in Lawrence County began experiencing problems with the electronic voting machines as they were preparing to open up the polls. The cause of the problem... ES&S, the company that runs the state's voting machine, supplied the county with the incorrect device that pulls up voter ballots.

The county clerk says she's "very dissatisfied" with ES&S. She certainly should be, given the company's poor performance during the county's primary and again today. And she isn't alone in her frustration. The list (pdf) of problems that ES&S or its voting machines have caused in other elections over the years is lengthy.

From Chris Bowers:

Don't know if these are accurate, but I just heard these.

Democrats leading in [Senate races]:

• VA: 52-47
• RI: 53-46
  
• PA: 57-42
  
• OH: 57-43
  
• NJ: 52-45
  
• MT: 53-46
  
• MO: 50-48
  
• MD: 53-46

Republicans leading:

• TN: 51-48
  
• AZ: 50-46
Corrected.

UPDATE - Still inaccurate, but also what the GOPers are sayng. The Corner has the exact same numbers.