It's poised like a hippo on a tightrope

...is how Justin DeSyllas from Bristol thinks I ought to be describing this. Missouri goes Democratic.

UPDATE: And Montana is looking very hopeful for the Democrats at 51% to 47%, though there's plenty of votes yet to be counted. If I drink enough Coke, maybe I can stay awake all through the following eight days of legal wrangling in Virginia? Also, in all the frenzy, I seem to have omitted to note that Schwarzenegger won. So: Schwarzenegger won.

UPDATE II: Is it wrong and evil of me to suggest that Fox has provided some of the best of the American TV coverage through the night so far? Am I going to hell even for saying that? It's comically biased, of course, in its choice of commentators. But the clarity of its presentation of statistics seems better than CNN's, for example.