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Australian readers – the first polls to close will be my voting state, Indiana, which shut at 10:00am AEDT. Sorta. The state presently straddles two time zones, Eastern and Central, so eastern Indiana on EST closes at 6:00pm EST. Polls in ‘western,’ or more accurately, extreme northwest (near Chicago and so in the Central time zone) and far southwestern Indiana, close at 7:00pm EST (11:00am AEDT).<\/p>\n
If Obama takes extremely conservative and often racist Indiana, it’ll be not only a miracle but a sign of a potential landslide. Indiana has not voted for a Democratic president since LBJ in 1964. McC leads Indiana<\/a> on the last aggregate poll by 4.5%.<\/p>\n Time & Date.com has a Personal World Clock<\/a> so you can watch the time zones roll by. SwingStateProject has a great time zone map<\/a> which lists all times referenced to EST, to make it easy to convert to Aussie time.<\/p>\n Dixville Notch<\/a>, New Hampshire, famous for opening their polls just after midnight on 4 November, voted Obama in a landslide.<\/p>\n Live electoral map<\/a> from Daily Kos.<\/p>\n HuffPo’s guide<\/a> to watching the election<\/p>\n RealClearPolitics: polls<\/a> map<\/a><\/p>\n Pollster.com: Be wary of exit polls<\/a><\/p>\n WaPo, The Fix: Hour-by-hour breakdown of states to watch<\/a><\/p>\n WTHR channel 13, Indianapolis<\/a> – results begin release at 7:00pm EST (11:00am AEDT), live stream available. Indiana weather<\/a> is unusually warm (75F\/24C), sunny and dry for early November, increasing the chance of a high voter turnout.<\/p>\n Indianapolis Star\/News<\/a>, a traditionally conservative newspaper in a one-newspaper town (despite about 3 million people in the greater Indianapolis area)<\/p>\n Obama makes surprise last-minute stop in Indianapolis<\/a>, his last public appearance before heading home to Chicago to watch the tallies come in<\/p>\n Indiana results, county-by-county<\/a> (disable adblock to view)<\/p>\n