Photos by Ewa Beaujon.
1. Fairlington Rec Center, Arlington, 12:20 p.m.

2. Cora Kelley Elementary School, Alexandria, 12:50 p.m.

3. George Washington Middle School, Alexandria, 1 p.m.

Maybe! Maryland is a confusing place! Anything could happen! The Gazette reports:
"We've always believed the Maryland public was quite malleable on slots," [political consultant G. Keith] Haller said. "There was never really a solid majority for support for slots, even when you added all the inducements. I wouldn't be surprised if it wound up nip [...]

In which Arthur Delaney vehemently refuses to term it a "scandal."

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Precinct 10 is the Horace Mann Community Center on Newark Street in Wesley Heights.  As of 3:45, 1,535 people had voted here. According to the precinct captain, Arlester Brown, there are a little over 4,000 people registered to vote here. So, hopefully, the after-work rush brought considerable crowds.
More volunteers than voters...
The Mild Mild West's trench [...]

City Desk just called Arthur Delaney to check in on his historic campaign for an ANC post in Cap. Hill. He is standing outside his precinct at Payne Elementary. It is 5:35 p.m.
Delaney has big news. His mom has joined his campaign!
"My mom is here campaigning with me," Delaney says. "She voted for me over [...]

This afternoon I went with my mother to the polls at my old grammar school, Westlawn Elementary in Falls Church.
The school, like the neighborhood, was a very segregated place when I was there.
The only non-white kid in the school was Indian. I remember rumors, still unconfirmed, that a girl a grade below me was Jewish. [...]

From the Richmond Times-Dispatch's never-not-amazing polling troubles page.

One woman was arrested outside of the poll at the Whitcomb Court recreation room in the East End after she flicked a lit cigarette at a police officer. The woman was upset because she no longer was qualified to vote in the precinct, [Registrar J. Kirk Showalter] said. [...]

Doug Sparks, a D.C. lawyer stationed in Richmond to monitor voting, has just stumbled into the Holiday Inn. He's heading to the bar, he says.
Sparks needs to charge up his cellphone. And, he says, he needs a drink.
It is 5:12 p.m. Sparks has been working at one precinct since 5:30 a.m. He says the turnout [...]

From left to right: Murray Belman and James Lowe at Horace Mann Elementary School in Wesley Heights.
James Lowe is here 'til the end. The Wesley Heights resident arrived at Horace Mann Elementary School, just west of American University, at roughly 3:15 p.m. and plans to leave when the polls close at 8 p.m. [...]

Emily Richardson, pictured below wearing a beet costume, lives in Mount Pleasant where she is politicking against McCain. (Of course she lives in Mt. P. Hello? She's wearing a fucking beet costume.) But Emily Richardson, like so many of you hypocrite D.C.ers who espouse to love your city, voted where her parents live. These people [...]

Katherine Dunbar made maximum use of her cramped Precinct 25 voting booth when she cast her ballot this afternoon. Dunbar was joined at her polling place, the Goodwill Baptist Church at 1862 Kalorama Road NW, by two valued consultants: Perry Levitch (age "twelve-and-three-days") and Esme Levitch ("Well, I'll be nine in February") in her Precinct [...]

John L. Hoban

Obama may win the District of Columbia with a margin of, like, 82 to 13.
Meaning: It's no problem walking around town and finding Obama supporters. It's like air.
A stiffer challenge attaches to finding McCain types out and about. That's what we did, and here are the results, as narrated by correspondent-in-the-field Franklin Schneider:
Responses [...]

Precinct 35 voters exiting the polls around 4 p.m. at Adams Morgan's Iglesia Festival, 1640 Columbia Rd. NW

Irina Van Dusen

Via TPM:
It's hard for the GOP and Fox News to give up on whipping up fears that Obama is going to set up a black dictatorship in America where sundry pimps and gangbangers will replace the civil service and institute a reign of racial terror and compulsory miscegenation. Fox and the McCain campaign are pushing [...]