Barack Obama beat John McCain in the capitol of very-Republican Utah:
Updated election results released Tuesday show that Salt Lake County voters favored Barack Obama over John McCain — but just barely — marking the first time in decades that a Democratic presidential hopeful won the state’s most populous county.
With the addition of more than 29,000 [...]

And what he says may surprise you…

I welcome the day when the “liberal media” meme dies once and for all. Because it’s not only inaccurate, it has been used as a clumsy bludgeon by lazy Republican hacks since the early days of Reagan when folks like Limbaugh first went on the air and started claiming [...]

These days, it seems rather odd to use the word “conservative” and “environmentalist” in the same sentence. But that wasn’t always the case. Recently, I interviewed Jim DiPeso, who is the Policy Director for Republicans for Environmental Protection, a national organization for “Green Republicans.”
The group’s mission listed on their website is [...]

Not that it’s any surprise, but McCain will clearly not be the leader of the GOP.
From Ambinder:
Republican activists, donors, state party chairs, national committee men and women HATED the soft money ban because they (a) well, many of them thought it was unconstitutional but (b) more prosaically, they worried it would give an energized Democratic [...]

If you need any more proof that our campaign finance laws are a joke, take this story:
The Federal Election Commission is unlikely to conduct a potentially embarrassing audit of how Barack Obama raised and spent his presidential campaign’s record-shattering windfall, despite allegations of questionable donations and accounting that had the McCain campaign crying foul.
Adding insult [...]

No way, no how.
Still…the speculation is rampant…

I’m still blown away at how Pat Buchanan is so singularly focused on her good, but not great, RNC speech. It’s crazy, but I guess we all have to fall in love some time.
Give it up Pat. The dream is dead. She ain’t gonna be President…or your secret girlfriend.

Some frank talk about the future of the party from the man who some say ran McCain’s campaign into the ground.
From The Daily Beast:
Looking forward, Schmidt sees the need for a wholesale reinvention of the party: “The party in the Northeast is all but extinct; the party on the West Coast is all but extinct…there [...]

Yes, she actually did go rogue, and even more so than previously thought.

The William Ayers thing is telling and suggests that she definitely has killer political instincts. Nothing wrong with that, but it definitely reinforces the image of Palin as the “mean girl.”
However, the news that she was unwilling to share the stage with [...]

These were the reporters behind the scenes telling it in their own words…

As I’ve said before, I can buy the spending spree story since the truth will eventually come out when the RNC audits everything. That makes me think that aides wouldn’t lie about this.
The other stuff, like the Africa and Nafta stories, I just [...]

If nothing else, the election of Barack Obama should mean the end of the so-called “Bradley effect:”
All the ominous predictions, all the fretting about hidden votes and closeted racists frustrating a victory for the nation’s first African-American president came down to this: the so-called Bradley effect did not exist.
People did not lie — to pollsters [...]

Well, it’s not official yet, but with Missouri all but certain to be called for McCain in the next day or so the final electoral tally should shape up like this…
Obama: 364
McCain: 174
By the way, is anybody else blown away that Obama beat McCain by more than 2 to 1?
And also…North Carolina went blue???
In any [...]

You all know I’m not a fan of Sarah Palin, but the following is beyond the pale and I actually feel the need to defend the woman.
Watch and squirm…

Listen, I don’t buy for a second that she didn’t know which countries are in NAFTA or that Africa is a continent, not a country.
Why?
Because people who [...]

The war is beginning behinds the scenes between the Palin people and the McCain people, and it looks like they’re trying to hit the Alaskan Governor right where it hurts: her authenticity.
From Newsweek:
NEWSWEEK has also learned that Palin’s shopping spree at high-end department stores was more extensive than previously reported.
While publicly supporting Palin, [...]

I’ve got morning errands that need to be taken care of, so detailed analysis will have to wait, however I find myself very much in agreement with the substance of what Leslie Carbone says in this post:
[W]e can recover what has been so tragically lost over the last 20 years: an understanding of the principles [...]

I don’t know if there will be a recount in either state because the totals are so close, but as I predicted…Missouri didn’t pick the winner for only the second time in over 100 years.
On the other hand, Indiana delivered for Obama and I think it was clear from very early in the evening that [...]

Do watch the whole thing…

Again, pure class from a great American.

Here’s their last poll…
The final Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Election 2008 shows Barack Obama with 52% of the vote while John McCain is six points back at 46%. One percent (1%) of voters say they’ll select a third-party option while 1% remain undecided.
Just wanted to make sure you all knew that Rasmussen [...]

That was John McCain’s concession speech tonight.
From the moment he hushed the boo birds, he had me hook, line and sinker.
Let’s hope Obama works with McCain closely. I think they’d make one hell of a team.

(NOTE: With the Ohio win, Obama will be the next President of the United States.)
Welcome to the Donklephant 2008 Electoral College results coverage.
I’ll be constantly updating this post as new results come in, so please watch the numbers as well as the updates below the numbers.
Total Electoral Votes
Obama: 216
McCain: 129
Full numbers below!

Again, the Obama landslide scenario is not playing out tonight, although it looks like he could pick up North Carolina, Indiana and Missouri. And that would push him above 350.
Some think this would be a mandate. I don’t buy that, but we shall see.
And scene.