Madison native David Maraniss updates us on the post election situation in Dubuque, Iowa:

In the river city of Dubuque, Iowa, deep in the political battleground of the upper Midwest, sunrise came at precisely 6:39 a.m. By then, the wisecrackers in the John Deere Retirees Coffee Club had been awake for an hour and were settled into their Wednesday morning seats, shooting the breeze in the back room of Breezy’s Cafe. Hours would pass before Sen. John F. Kerry (D-Mass.) conceded defeat, but these old guys knew the final score.
“I can’t believe it. I can’t believe it!” Walt Pregler, a retired toolmaker, muttered at one end of the gathering, repeating a refrain common among the more than 55 million voters who tried but failed to bring an end to George W. Bush’s presidency.
As Pregler’s lament continued, Pat Nordhues, known as “the sensitive Republican” in the gathering, rose at the other end of the table and stormed out of Breezy’s, an uncomfortable minority there, though not in the country. “The bad thing about it is that you guys are gonna cry like babies for six months ’cause you lost the election,” Nordhues bellowed as he walked past Pregler.
Roger Hantelmann, neatly sprinkling sugar on his pancakes and wearing an “OBC” (Old But Cool) baseball cap, laughed at Nordhues and picked up for Pregler and the Democrats.

Jon Udell put together a great time representation of a useful NY Times infographic on the electoral college results, from 1940 to 2000. Flash | Quicktime Here’s the source graphic.

Tyler Cowen publishes his proposed economic agenda for a 2nd Bush term (rather provocative) with some useful ideas.

Before the body is even cold, I received a sunshine email today from Howard Dean inviting me to join a “meetup” tonight (November 3, 2004)!
I’m wondering how long it will be until Dean, Hilary Clinton, John Edwards, Rudy Giuliani, John McCain and Bill Frist (among others) descend on Iowa pancake breakfasts….. Lord have mercy!

I took a few photos today while visiting the Front Range. Click on a photo to view them:

Madison residents, find your polling places here. Dane County resident polling locations are here.
Madison & Dane County Results for County, State & Federal Races. This page will refresh periodically starting after 8:00p.m. tonight.
Following the elections via these blogs: UW Law Professor Ann Althouse Tennessee Law Professor Glenn Reynolds The Daily Kos Andrew Sullivan Dave Winer
One of the more interesting sites is technorati’s election watch. Google News
Candidate sites: Tammy Baldwin Dave Magnum Russ Feingold Tim Michels George Bush John Kerry
VOTE!

I’ve linked to some local races here (senate and house). I will also post a link to the Dane County election site, which summarizes voting cross the area. Google has posted a handy zeitgeist, which summarizes political search data (think about the data google is collecting with their cookies and more troubling, the desktop search tool).