Polls are closing up around the country and the first results have started to trickle in. Predictably, Kentucky went to John McCain and Obama won in Vermont. Virginia and Indiana are actually going to be interesting. Democrat Mark Warner won Virginia’s Senatorial race, which may bode well for a big Obama win there. For the moment, John McCain is in the lead. Scary stuff.

Unless someone dramatically sweeps the East, New Mexico, Colorado, and Nevada will be in play so it’s going to be a late night. I’m off to cast my vote. Polls in New York close in less than two hours, so it’s probably going to be a madhouse out there.

Barack Obama is going to win this election. Obama might not get the landslide that some are predicting, but he’s going to pull off a victory tonight. Here’s why…

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• Obama after spending several minutes casting his vote: “I hope this works, it would be really embarrassing if it doesn’t.” [BBC]
• More voting trouble in Fairfax County, VA: someone sent an e-mail blast to students at George Mason University telling them that the election had been rescheduled. [WaPo]
• Crazy Venezuelan Presidente Hugo Chavez is “ready to sit down and talk” with “the black man who is about to be the U.S. president.” [Reuters]
• Evil little toad Karl Rove predicts a landslide victory for Obama. [CNN]
• Oh yeah, there are some other races going on today too. [AP]

Election day is upon us and we’re already hearing from people who are having trouble getting their votes counted. My friend Mahdis Keshavarz lives in the Brooklyn’s 42nd Assembly District where she reports being turned away from the polls. Keshavarz says she showed up to P.S. 230 near her home in Kensington at about six this morning and was unable cast her vote because poll workers told her “they didn’t have the voter lists, the machine was broken, and there was no one there to man the table.” It gets worse.

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• Both campaigns are gathering “armies of lawyers” to deal with a “perfect storm” of “record turnout” combined with “an insufficient number of poll workers and a voting system still in flux.” Obama has the voters to win this, but they need to make it to the polls for him to pull it off. [Slate]
• George Bush is stepping in to help Ohio Republicans who are still trying to force 200,000 new voters to reconfirm their registration one week after their case was dismissed by the Supreme Court. [WaPo]
• “Joe the Plumber” might not be a real plumber, but if talk radio has their way, he will be a real Congressman. [CNN]
• While writing a blog for the RNC, Ashley Todd visited “Manhatten” where she hung out at a Republican rally with the Jews at “Yeshvia College.” [LifeInTheField (Cached)]
• A 72 year-old retired teacher in New York is fighting military recruiters in city high schools. [NYT]