10.54 pm. Initiatives easing marijuana laws are outpolling Obama in Massachusetts and Michigan. People are less afraid than politicians.

10.52 pm. You drinking yet? Stupid question. I haven't touched a drop. Honest. But I'm close. It's been a long year since that Atlantic piece.

10.51 pm. The next time I'm on CNN, I'm going to insist on a hologram.

10. 50 pm. Bitter, Party Of One.

10. 45 pm. Fox calls Virginia for Obama. It looks good in North Carolina. Not all the South is resistant to change.

10.33 pm. Virginia is very close but the northern counties have not reported fully. Obama is probably going to win it - but more narrowly than expected.

10.20 pm. North Carolina is a nail-biter. So's Indiana.

10.18 pm. Decriminalization of small amounts of marijuana is winning big in Massachusetts.

10.03 pm. Evangelicals move to Obama in the rust-belt. But the Southern Christianists harden toward McCain. The GOP will become more fundamentalist, more Southern, and whiter after this election. They now have the power in a shrunken GOP.

9.54 pm. A senior McCain aide tells Ambers: "At this point, we need a miracle."

9.51 pm. It's looking grim for marriage equality in Florida. But they need 60 percent and Miami-Dade isn't in yet.