Just got home from work and had to relate what I learned today.
I'm currently working with a man (a highly active Democrat) who happens to be good friends with a well-known Democratic Senator.
Shortly after noon pacific time, he called her office, desperate for information, and was told that Democratic internals looked like this:
Pennsylvania +6
Ohio +2
Florida +3
Wisconsin +4
Minnesota +10
Iowa +2
Michigan +4
New Mexico -Tied
Nevada -1
About an hour later, the Senator herself called him to say that the original numbers were holding.
By 3:30, the two had spoken again at which point, the Senator told him that "tomorrow morning, we'll all wake up with a different President." She said all the media had pretty much the same numbers, but that they were going to tap dance around them all night long.
Sadly, she also said it looked bad in the Senate, especially for Tom Daschle.
But, at that point, we didn't much care, since we'd felt we'd gotten a pretty good inside look at what was going to happen.
Since then, I've gotten so many calls from hysterical friends wondering what was going to happen, I've started to feel like Obi Wan Kenobi, asking everyone to simply trust in the Force.
Anyway...I just wanted to share this with all you nervous-nellies.