It’s 2:30 pm, the day after Election Day, and I realize a lot of people who read Bray New World aren’t total news junkies like me, so I thought I’d boil stuff down:

President:
The major networks are unwilling yet to call Missouri or North Carolina. McCain seems to have a slight lead in the former, Obama in the latter.

The AP has also “un-called” Georgia, because while McCain leads by 200K votes, there are apparently 600k or so absentee and uncounted votes. The networks, however, have not followed the AP’s lead.

Senate:
The Dems have 56, when you include Sanders and Lieberman. State-by-state:

Alaska:
Convicted felon Ted Stevens has a tiny lead, but there are scads and scads of absentee votes, so nobody’s been willing to call it for Stevens.
Minnesota:
The count’s done, and Al Franken is down by a mere 600 votes. Minnesota law says there has to be a recount if the margin is less than a half of a percent. Half of a percent would be 15,000 votes. So we won’t know until the recount finishes, which could be a month from now.
Georgia:
GA law says that if no candidate gets 50%, there has to be a runoff of the top two candidates. Right now, the incumbent Republican appears to be at 49.9%, but the count’s not yet final. Lots of the Democratic machine are gearing up to decamp for Georgia if there’s a runoff.
Oregon:
Nobody’s been willing to call this one, either, although Smith (GOP) appears to have a slight edge so far.

Bigotry:
…appears to have won in California. Much of the media is calling Prop 8 as having passed.
I’d like to point out to California readers of Bray that housing prices have largely leveled off here in the BayGay State.