Update: Judge Rappaport denied the injunction claiming that she does not have the authority to extend voting hours in Denver County. More at Colorado Confidential.

It's been bedlam in Denver.

The Colorado Democratic Party has asked a Denver District Court judge to extend voting this evening by two hours due to problems at Denver election centers.

Parties are gathered in a courtroom at the Denver City and County Building awaiting a ruling on the request.

Nothing on specific races, but, Bill Schneider of CNN says that 62% of voters disappproved of Congress, 36% approved.

Important issues - 42% corruption, 40% terrorism, 39% economy, and Iraq 37%. Hard to say what that finding is about. The methodology was pretty bad.

What was the most important issue? This poll question can't say.

Here's a good one - "Q - What mattered most to your votes? A - 62% National issues, 33% local issues."

Nationalizing the election is good for Dems and I would add this, this is agreat stand-in for Republican vs. Dem - most understood that Dems wanted to nationalize the election while the GOP wanted to focus on a race by race basis. Not one to one but probably pretty close.

Tea leaving reading I'll grant you, but this bodes well for Dems.

This is good for Dems I believe:

Reports from around Virginia early Tuesday indicated an extraordinarily high turnout for a midterm election, with perhaps 65 percent of registered voters expected to cast ballots, state elections officials said. That would double the midterm turnout in 2002.

This is darn funny:

I've got a bad feeling this afternoon about the elections. Perhaps things will go well. But things like this give me no comfort:

Cry me a river. When this happened to Democrats in 2004, it was the source of laughter from Republicans. I agree that it is a disgrace. But it was a disgrace long ago.

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.