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The Associated Press has the electoral count at 82 for Barack Obama 34 for John McCain. There are 270 electoral votes required to win the election.

The Associated Press is calling the state of Illinois, with its 21 electoral votes, for Barack Obama. The AP is also confirming that New Jersey and New Hampshire have both gone to Obama.

ABC News is projecting Barack Obama the winner in Massachusetts, Connecticut, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Maryland, Washington DC, Pennsylvania, Illinois and Delaware. In Maine, Obama is projected to win 3 of the 4 electoral votes. ABC projects 81 electoral votes for Obama.
ABC News says Tennessee and Oklahoma are projected to go to John McCain giving […]

New Yorkers talk about voting in a historical election.

Democratic former Virginia Gov. Mark Warner won his bid for the Senate. Warner beat another former governor, Republican Jim Gilmore, in the race to replace retiring five-term Sen. John W. Warner.
In South Carolina, Sen. Lindsey Graham, a close adviser to GOP presidential nominee Sen. John McCain, won a second term, defeating Democrat Bob Conley.

Voters in NY are reporting long lines, malfunctioning machines and missing registrations. Matthew Scheurman
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The Associated Press calls Kentucky (8 electoral college votes) for McCain and Vermont (3 electoral college votes) for Obama.

As usual, women were a little more numerous than men in the electorate.
About one in seven voters were under age 30 and as many were over 65.
A third reported household income of less than $50,000; a quarter had income of more than $100,000.
One in five had no more than a high school diploma; nearly […]

Six in 10 voters picked the economy as the most important issue facing the nation. None of four other issues on the list - energy, Iraq, terrorism and health care - was picked by more than one in 10.
Not surprisingly, voters also have a very sour view of the condition of the nation’s economy. About […]

For months, The Takeaway has been following undecided voters across the county. But one was so particularly evasive, we had to follow him all the way to the voting booth to find out his choice. Our Undecided Voter, Andrew Kupka, joins us from the West Forsythe High School in Cumming, Georgia.
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