An interesting question from Twitter-person Sploich…

People in Maine want to #VoteNoon1. Why would you want noon to start an hour later? You're already in the eastern time zone!

It's just not natural.

Here's GOP Chair Michael Steele asking for your support while standing in front of a bunch of two-dimensional white people.

So, what else is new?

Donate my face?! Why? So you can stick it up on that campaign bus along all the other people whom you've tricked into surrendering their corporeal form to you? So that my soul can wander aimlessly and distressed for all time?

For the last time, I'm not joining the Young Republicans!

(via Gotcha Media)

Things are looking kind of pretty okay up in Maine, where people are turning out in unusual numbers to cast their vote either for civil liberties or against basic human decency that really shouldn't need to be defended…

Maine Secretary of State Matt Dunlap told me just now that turnout there is far exceeding his projections — news that would be good news for backers of same-sex marriage.

"We're seeing heavy and very steady turnout," he said, attributing the surprise to the contested vote on a "people's veto" of a same-sex marriage law driving Mainers to the polls…

"I think we could be over 50%" for the state," Dunlap said. "We originally projected 35%."

Hopefully, Maine Secretary of State Matt Dunlap is correct in his analysis of the high voter turnout.  It would be really depressing if this turned out to be  a case of a bunch of a huge chunk of the state making it a point to take the time out of their day to steal a bunch of strangers' rights away from them just because.

I mean, can you imagine something that depressing? In this country?!

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God, please let that not be what's happening.

I know that tomorrow isn't a real Election Day. But still, we can all pretend. Right?

Right…

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New Jersey Gubernatorial Race – Jon Corzine (D) vs. Chris Christie (R)

Why should you pretend to care?

Like a lot of elections this year, this will probably have less to do with whether New Jersians want to give Corzine another shot in office and more to do with Barack Obama is a Satanist Muslim from Kenya NO MORE TAXES FOR JESUS!! So, you know, I guess we'll see.

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Virginia Gubernatorial Race – Bob McDonnell (R) vs. Creigh Deeds (D)

Who gives a shit?

As it turns out, Sarah Palin gives a shit. She, it would seem, gives a huge shit. The 2012 presidential hopeful has been expending some political cash and releasing her robot doppelganger to go robo-calling Virginites and asking them to "vote for Sarah's principles." Also, if they'd buy her new book, that'd probably be pretty okay, too.

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New York's 23rd Congressional District Race – Bill Owens (D) vs. Doug Hoffman (C)

Can you just sleep through this?

You can, but you'll be missing one of the finest examples of conservative implosions in weeks. This was supposed to be a race between Owens and Republican Dede Scozzafava. But then conservatives decided Scozzafava was — and I quote — "a radical leftist," because they're pretty much cartoon characters pretending to be real people. So, in turn, Scozzafava responded by dropping out and supporting the Democrat. Hi-Larry-ous! This one should actually be entertaining for real.

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New York City Mayoral Race – Incumbent Michael Bloomberg vs. William Thompson

So what?

So, this all boils down to the single most important political question since the beginning of time: Why not just buy this election? The answer: Sure, why not.

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Maine's Proposition 1 and Washington's Referendum 71

What it to you?

Well, it's not really anything to you. Unless you're gay. Or have a gay family member. Or know somebody who's gay. Or just support equality in civil rights and the ideals set forth in the Constitution of the United States.

If not, though, I guess you can just ignore this one.

Nate Silver shows that once you adjust for the incredibly high — 96 percent! — of the black vote that Barack Obama won on November 4th, the voter turn-out map isn't nearly as pretty a shade of blue as we thought it was…

Does this mean that us white people have to stop being so self-congratulatory about how post-racial we are all of a sudden?

Now that the Chambliss/Whatsisname election has drawn to its exciting complex, we only have one official election for Indecision 2008 to obsess over — and I use the word "obsess" very lightly — and that's Al Franken's down-to-the-wire attempt to unseat Sen. Norm Coleman in Minnesota.

And now it looks as though Franken may — for the first time since the recount started — have pulled ahead of Coleman with a cool double digit lead…

Speaking on a conference call with reporters, Franken's chief counsel Marc Elias said the campaign's own internal count showed them up 22 votes, a jump from the 13 vote deficit that they faced on Tuesday.

"We have approximately 138,000 ballots left to count," said Elias. "94.3 percent of the state has now been counted… Obviously that number is going to change, but we are pleased thus far with how things are going."

Bear in mind, those numbers are according to Franken's "campaign's own internal count." All other counts seem to show Coleman as retaining his lead.

Except for mine, in which Minneapolis-native glam-funk rock legend Prince is jerking both candidates numbers like a horny pony would.

Now run and tell your mama about that.