We're at the Tryst coffee house in DC. CNN has rented it out for the night for a blogger party. Abbi Tatton and Jackie Schechner are here, with a crew from CNN that must number 20. There are two huge trucks outside and a big diesel generator that had the owner of the blues bar and restaurant next door, Madam Organ, pretty upset. CNN moved the generator so his diners could eat without smelling diesel fuel.

I'm the first one here, I wanted to watch the production people set up. That's half the fun. The polls aren't yet closed so there isn't that mufch to blog about yet other than the election and voting problems which TChris and Big Tent have been covering all day.

The other bloggers are now streaming in. They are equally divided among liberal and conservative. Because of the way the room is set up, we're all mixed in together. Some people want tables, some want couches.

Matt Stoller reports:

[I]t looks like the [Connecticut] Secretary of State is projecting a midterm record 66% of registered voters will show up to the polls today. Seniors are Lieberman voters, and they are going to vote no matter what, so having others come out and vote is a good thing. I know that turnout is very high in the urban areas, and that's good for us. I don't want to say throw out the polls, but it is clear that the likely voter screens are probably in error. This is also probably very good for the three Democrats running in hot Congressional races.

Markos points out one of the more interesting stories of the day - the attack on electronic votong machines from allsides of the political spectrum:

Republicans are complaining about voting irregularities as loudly as we are today. A Republican governor, two Republican congressmen turned away from the polls. Votes supposedly switching in electronic voting machines in New Jersey. Complaints coming from New Mexico and elsewhere. Here's the bottom line -- no one trusts those machines anymore. And not only do they damage the integrity of our democracy, but they give losing campaigns an excuse to grandstand and further erode faith in our system. Paper ballots (or optical scan) is a solution, but it doesn't solve the problem of voter turnout, voter intimidation, the problems with inclement weather, and lack of voter education when entering the booth.

Pretty ironic.

The GOP made a big stink about exit poll leaks and rigorous security measures have been put in place to avoid leaking and so far, they seem to have worked.

I have not heard of any leaks of exit polls today. Remember they come in waves, morning and afternoon. So the early wave has been made available. Not just leaked. I guess that's good . . .

This is Conrad Burns in a nutshell:

Democratic Senate challenger Jon Tester appears to hold a slight lead over Republican Sen. Conrad Burns in a new poll of likely voters released Monday. The poll drew an unusually sharp reaction from the Burns campaign.

A Burns spokesman dismissed the USA Today/Gallup poll as inaccurate and initially said the campaign was revoking one newspaper's credentials to attend Burns' election night event in Billings because it wrote about the poll.

. . . "Running a bogus poll on the day before an election to try and suppress Republican voter turnout is irresponsible and in poor taste," Klindt said Monday.

I tell you what suppresses voters - classless bullying from desperate campaigns.

MSNBC reports projected turnout of 70% in strongly Democratic St. Louis County.

If that is true, McCaskill seems to have a leg up in that race.

We'll see. As I said, I am just a rumormonger today.

On MSNBC, The Hill's Amy Stoddard says is in pretty strong terms - there is high turnout today and that is bad for the GOP.

She is predicting big wins for Dems and increasing likelihood the Dems take the Senate.

What does she know? Heck if I know. I'm just a rumormonger right now.

From The Corner, which feeds the GOP election spin on Election Day (and I thank them for that, heck if I had any Dem spin to feed you, I would):

Long Election Week in Maryland?
A source close to Steele tells me they woudn't be surprised — "a very good chance" — if we don't know the results of the Senate race there tonight. Evidently 200,000 absentee ballots, and they won't be counted until Thursday, source says.

Take it for what it's worth.

Three more reasons to vote:

The Pentagon says 40-year-old Lieutenant Colonel Eric J.-Kruger of Garland was one of three officers killed in the Thursday [roadside] bombing. The military has said they were in the same vehicle in eastern Baghdad.

Everything I'm seeing is about voting problems -- at the polls, at campaign offices -- lawsuits are being prepared. TChris and Big Tent Democrat have been following them.

I'm getting ready to head to the CNN blog party.

On Election Night, Tuesday, November 7th, CNN is hosting prominent bloggers from across the country - and across the ideological spectrum - to watch returns, blog alongside one another, and share political insights during its live election coverage. Parts of the event will be streamed live on CNN Pipeline and broadcasted live on CNN's Election Night coverage starting at 7 PM E.T. Blogging begins at 4 PM and may continue into the early morning hours.

Here's a list of the bloggers who will be there.

This report discusses voting problems in Kentucky, including a poll worker's assault on a voter (talk about voter intimidation!):

A poll worker in south Louisville was arrested Tuesday morning and charged with assault and interfering with an election, an official said. Paula McCraney, a spokeswoman for the Jefferson County Clerk, said the poll worker was accused of choking and pushing the voter out of the door. Election officials called the police and when an officer arrived, the voter wanted to file charges, McCraney said.

The FCC is having a f'ing difficult time deciding whether and when the F-word is indecent. When Bono used the descriptive phrase "f'ing brilliant" on the Golden Globes in 2003, the FCC decided that "f'ing" wasn't used in a sexual context and therefore wasn't indecent, despite the flurry of complaints it received, many of them encouraged by the Parents Television Council. The FCC also took the sensible position that "fleeting and isolated remarks of this nature do not warrant Commission action." No sh--.

Pandering to the religious right, the FCC changed its position in 2004, concluding that the F-word "inherently has a sexual connotation." How f-ing stupid is that? Why can a TV personality describe a sex act in explicit clinical terms without offending the FCC, while risking a fine for using the F-word as an angry modifier in a context that is divorced from sex?