9:21 pm

Romney leads the President by 700,000 popular votes according to Fox News. 

9:56 pm

With 72% of precincts reporting Virginia is still a toss up. 

10:13 pm

Democrats seem to be sweeping the toss ups in the Senate. McCaskill, Warren, Brown all win their races. This just kind of furthers the narrative that not much is likely to change. Democrats are on track to hold the Senate and Republicans are likely to hold the House. 

All that is left is the Presidential race. And unless Mitt Romney can make some major gains in key Floridian counties it looks like the Incumbent is set to win. Essentially everything will be what it was yesterday. 

10:48 pm

Watching the returns come in via CNN, Fox News, Twitter and various other blogs it struck us just how much of a spectator sport American politics has become. Rationally  the election should be like Christmas morning, right?

Just go to sleep and when you wake up tomorrow the results should be in. No waiting, no predictions just facts. But no, we have John King spitting out county by county data and how it compares to four years ago. It is as if pundits are desperate to find a prediction when we are just going to find out in ten minutes anyways.

But it’s fun to watch (If you are a political geek). The tension as we run state by state. It’s great. 

Thoughts?