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The New York Times has a good slideshow which clearly brings out how the country swung Democratic this year.

Thanks to brownsox@Daily Kos for the pointer.

The numbers as I got them at the Auditorium tonight (sorry I'm missing a few races):

President: Barack Obama
US Senate: Tom Allen
US Rep District 2: Mike Michaud
ME Senate Dist. 31: Deborah Deane
ME Rep Dist. 21: Ruth-Marie Spellman

Question 1: Vote no to continue funding DirigoHealth
Question 2: Vote no to avoid giving one company a 10-year monopoly on casino gaming in Maine
Question 3: Vote yes to improve drinking water and wastewater treatment facilities

The "No on 1" people have been doing a notably poor job at getting their message out. However, in my opinion, it's vital that the DirigoHealth Program continue to be funded at a high level.

This will probably be my last update for this graph from the RCP data: I don't expect the numbers to change much before tomorrow. I moved the scale to show the 50% line more clearly: it cuts off some of the lower raw numbers, but the trend lines all fit in. I'm also including the Excel file I've been using, in case you want to tweak the graph yourself.

My wife and mother-in-law voted today at the Brewer Auditorium. Donna said that there was somebody ahead of them, and that somebody came in behind them, so the traffic was steady, but there was no particular wait.

My mother-in-law had registered to vote at her current address last time she renewed her license, but her name wasn't on the Brewer rolls. Fortunately, Maine law allows for same-day registration, so she was able to straighten things out and cast a regular ballot.

Obama continues to maintain a comfortable lead: the RCP Average shows Obama by 6.4.

I tweaked the formatting a bit -- I sorted the data correctly so that I didn't have to reverse it in Excel, with the result that the trendlines actually end where they're supposed to. I also increased the moving average to 15 polls, to smooth the line out a bit more.

This question was asked today by a diarist at Daily Kos. His conclusion was that Obama has better pro-life credentials than McCain.