The opera ain't over....from the Kerry campaign:

“The vote count in Ohio has not been completed. There are more than 250,000 remaining votes to be counted. We believe when they are, John Kerry will win Ohio.”

Bring on the lawyers.

Update: Voting machines have broken down. New machines have been ordered. Absentee ballots are still coming in. Election worker fatigue dominates. They say they won't do any more until tomorrow.

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Iowa is reporting a tie so far. Nevada and Hawaii still up in the air, but Kerry is leading in both.

4 more votes for John Kerry. May not be enough to help. Unless there's a miscall in Florida or Ohio.

Wolf is reminding everyone about Dewey and Truman and all the other elections where people went to sleep thinking one person won and woke up in the morning and the other person won.

CNN disagrees with NBC about Ohio. Kerry thinks the provisional ballots can change things. They say there are 200,000 provisional ballots out there.

I don't get some of these calls. Colorado is called for Bush when Boulder County won't count its votes until tomorrow.

There are a million absentee ballots in Florida. Ohio's most democratic counties haven't been counted yet. Nor have the provisional ballots. Yet NBC called both states for Bush.

I'm dumping NBC, Tom Brokaw notwithstanding, and heading over to CNN.

NBC calls Ohio for Bush and puts him at 269 votes and says it's hard to see how he won't win.

Tim Russert is still talking about 2000.

The Ohio election website has 78% of Ohio's vote in with 51.65% for Bush and 47.86% for Kerry. As we mentioned a few posts ago, Ohio is reporting the outcome won't be known until 2 am.

Kerry gets Minnesota. Ohio results won't be known until 2 am.

NBC calls Florida for Bush. Ohio is a must-win for Kerry now.

NBC has called the Colorado senate race for Salazar, although with 70% of the vote in, Salazar is ahead 51% to 48%.

In these races, the Dems wiped out:

Tancredo wins over Conti
Beauprez wins over Dave Thomas
Joel Hefly beats his competitor.

Musgrave is ahead of Matsunaka 49% to 45%.
Walcher is ahead of John Salazar 49% to 47%.

At least Udall and DeGette won.

NBC has Betty Castor leading Mel Martinez in the Florida senate race.

The New Mexico race is too close to call. The traditional democratic precincts of Santa Fe and the Navajo reservations have not come in yet. Bill Richardson thinks the Dems will pull it out by about 1%.

Amendment 36, which would end the winner-take-all system for electoral votes, has been declared a loser by 9 News.

NBC and CBS call Colorado for Bush.

Surprise of the night so far: Stan Matsunaka is making a very strong showing against Marilyn Musgrave--48% to 46% right now.

The tobacco tax was an easy winner. 84 cents a pack more starting January 1.

Salazar is gaining a larger lead over Coors.