THE WBIR FOLKS are projecting that the Wheel Tax will pass, based on their accelerated data-gathering. They’re all very pleased to have the scoop.

CNN NOW PUTS ALL FIVE OF NEBRASKA’S ELECTORAL VOTES IN THE BUSH BASKET, up from four earlier.

DAVID KASPAR is liveblogging the German election coverage.

CALL ’EM YOURSELF: Drudge links to the realtime vote tallies for Florida, Pennsylvania, and Ohio.

CNN HAS JIM DEMINT LEADING IN SOUTH CAROLINA with 44% of the vote in, which is terrific news for free trade. If a highly protectionist state like South Carolina can put a staunch free-trader like DeMint into the Senate, there’s hope for us all.

I’M POPPING IN AND OUT of the WBIR chat site, if you’re interested in stopping by. What with that, posting here, and doing posts for GlennReynolds.com and the WBIR blog — and going on the air every hour — I’m feeling like I’m spread a bit thin. But somebody just brought me a cup of strong, if rather stale, coffee.

ABC CALLS IT FOR COBURN, the Oklahoma Republican senatorial candidate who is most famous for his bizarre claims that lesbianism was so rampant in some southeastern Oklahoma public schools that they would only let the girls go to the bathroom one at a time.

CNN shows Colorado’s Amendment 36, the ballot initiative to split the state’s electoral votes, losing handily. That’s one lawsuit dodged, anyway.

YES, I’M STILL HERE, STILL PAYING ATTENTION. I haven’t posted in a long while, as long whiles are measured on election day. But I am sitting here taking in the news, reading a few websites and watching a few news channels on TV. The TV pundits are making me nervous. I’m not going to name names — not yet at least — but some of the partisan pundits come on and play a heavy-handed mind game, gloating “you lose!” in so many words. I wish I could think of something to say that might be helpful, but I’m looking at the same things you are, and what is going to happen is going to happen. We bloggers aren’t playing a role shaping any opinion anymore. The current game is just about shaping how people feel about what has happened as we slowly learn of it. That’s the sort of thing that doesn’t interest me at all. I’d prefer if everyone could make it through the night without feeling too bad and emerge the next day with a reasonably optimistic attitude about the future.

EXIT POLL PROBLEMS: “Either there is a huge methodological flaw in the exit polling data, or there has been a transformative change in the nature of the electorate. The former is far more likely.”

There’s a certain baffle-the-experts pleasure in seeing exit polls turn out to be wrong, but on the other hand if you can’t count on exit polls to be at least roughly accurate there’s less of a check on fraud.

COUNTY MAPS: You can drill down into CNN’s state map to find red and blue counties. (Via The Corner.)

HERE’S THE YAHOO ELECTION RESULTS MAP: Just keep refreshing.

UPDATE: The C-SPAN map is here.

NBC NEWS IS PROJECTING KANSAS, NEBRASKA, THE DAKOTAS, TEXAS AND WYOMING for Bush. Kerry is projected in New York and Rhode Island.

MSNBC IS POSTING REPORTS AND PHOTOS from “citizen journalists.” There’s another kind?

BUSH WINS VIRGINIA – NBC.

ABC HAS MAINE PUTTING 3 ELECTORAL VOTES INTO THE KERRY COLUMN but the fourth is still too close to call — a great sign for Bush, as he wasn’t expected to pull this out. So far no states have switched parties, but I’d love to know the margins.

HOW’D YOUR VOTE GO? Jason Kottke is gathering reports of people’s experiences.

NORTH AND SOUTH CAROLINA FOR BUSH: Not a surprise, but Edwards didn’t put Kerry over the top.

Gay-marriage ban passes in Ohio. Is this an indicator of how the Presidential vote will go?

NBC CALLS North Carolina for Bush.

WHO ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT, HUGH? Hugh Hewitt writes: “Exit polls are to election nights what food poisoning [is] to great restaurants. Four years ago they spooked the networks into calling Florida for Gore. Today they almost spooked the blogosphere into calling entire election for Kerry.” Only if Drudge counts as a blog.

A BIG LOCAL BATTLE HERE involves the Wheel Tax. The WBIR folks have sent stringers to every precinct, and they’re phoning in the results the instant they’re available. Right now it’s very close.

A MAJOR ELECTION VICTORY for my Nigerian-American sister-in-law, Victoria. This is what it’s all about, folks.

I GUESS SOME PEOPLE FIND IT EXCITING, but I’m finding it harder to work in the newsroom than I do at home. There’s so much noise and commotion you can’t hear yourself think. Pictures here.

NBC IS CALLING IT FOR BUSH in Tenn. Oklahoma, Alabama; Kerry in Mass., Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey. No real surprises there, though NJ to Kerry probably means no chance of a Bush landslide, just as WV to Bush makes a Kerry landslide unlikely. I guess it’s going to be close. Sigh.

I’M DECLARING VICTORY — OVER OSAMA: If he could have bombed us, he would have. Instead, all we got was a lame video.