Live-blogging the election returns

We know more than we’re saying, but we ain’t saying.

We’re doing live-shots all night from a balcony at the Ohio Theater in downtown Columbus.  Across the street from the state capital, a production of "Wicked" is appropriately enough being performed her this evening.

16 precincts in Ohio are being kept open past closing time (7:30 pmEST) until 9 pm EST, to compensate for electronic machine snafus this morning…

Some ABC News projections….Sen. Dick Lugar, R-IN, was reelected….Socialist Rep. Bernie Sanders of Vermont was elected to the U.S. Senate to succeed party-switchin’ Independent Sen. Jim Jeffords…the Virginia ban on same sex marriage seems to have passed, as with all same sex marriage bans before it…

More later. Time for dinner before we have to go live for the Mountain Feed….

jt