Lots to sort through today (it's just before 7 am here). Let's get started.
Here's a very good demographic overview by the excellent Tom Edsall from HuffPo. Bottom line: Obama outperformed Kerry among white voters:
Nationwide, according to network exit polls, Obama did far better among whites that his recent Democratic predecessors. Kerry lost white men to George W. Bush 62-37, a 25 point spread; Obama lost white men by 14 points, 42-56. Similarly, Kerry lost white women by 9 points, Obama by 5.
So don't let anyone get away with saying otherwise.
And now, in the one piece of news I know you've all been waiting for, I report with satisfaction that while West Virginia went a little redder than I thought, the old home town went for Barack. Monongalia County: Obama, 16.853 (51.7%); McCain, 15,612 (47.3%). You go, Morgantown!
Meanwhile, Indiana just flipped blue. Amazing. So it's 349 now, which means my prediction of 338 was wrong. Oh well. I'll deal.
