[7:44pm Eastern] NBC has Lester Holt discussing what method that the network uses in order to make its projections, briefly bringing up the decision desk, and that there would be some points where the desk would declare some races "too close to call." NBC has made it clear that they would be very, very careful overall, so expect them to perhaps be the "safe" place to watch, and perhaps the place to hear projections last.

[7:50pm] MSNBC has its lower right hand corner graphic alternating between the % of popular vote that each candidate has, number of electoral votes currently projected, and the "actual" number of popular votes already counted.

[7:53pm] FOX News' Chris Wallace running some statistics / graphs with subsegments of groups that agreed/disagreed with the War in Iraq. "A lot of people always thought that this election would end up as a referendum on President Bush. And if it turns out that way, the War in Iraq may turn out to be the decisive issue."

[8:00pm] FOX News does not call Florida, Pennsylvania, and New Hampshire - too close. New Jersey, Delaware, Connecticut, DC, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, Maine projected Kerry. Tennessee, Oklahoma, Alabama projected for Bush. Something peculiar about a "4th" electoral vote in Maine, as they are only assigning 3 of the 4 to Kerry at this time. FOX News count 77 Kerry, 66 Bush. MSNBC concurs on electoral count.

[8:10pm] Howard Dean on MSNBC - he thought that the Osama bin Laden video that emerged last week would have been a big help for the President, but isn't so sure as of today.

[8:20pm] Chris Matthews interrupts Joe Scarborough to make NBC's call of Bush taking North Carolina.

[8:35pm] Rafat Ali reports that NBC's live feed is online, here. ABC News Now is online as well, for a fee - Check your cable television / broadband provider, as some stream it for free. Comcast does, at least in New Jersey.

[8:35pm] Engadget calls Tablet PCs "the new whiteboards."

[8:37pm] ABC projects South Carolina for Bush.

[8:41pm] At Lost Remote, Frank Catalano informs that one Senator was prematurely calling the election, it seems.

[8:42pm] NBC's Tom Brokaw, speaking with Howard Dean, calls Virginia for Bush. Electoral update: Bush 102, Kerry 77

[8:44pm] Brokaw goes to Lisa Myers, who reports that the Republican party claims that the exit polls, as compared to what is in the actual votes, have underrepresented votes for Bush.

[8:50pm] Andrew Cline says that he took a CNN exit poll today, but believes that the network wasn't so concerned about trying to get everyone to take the poll.

[9:00pm] MSNBC projects Kansas, Texas, Nebraska, South Dakota, North Dakota, Wyoming for Bush. New York, Rhode Island for Kerry. Colorado, Florida (still), Ohio (still), Missouri, New Mexico "too close." Michigan, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Arizona, Pennsylvania, Arkansas, New Hampshire, Mississippi, Louisiana "too early." Electoral update: Bush 156, Kerry 112

[9:07pm] FOX News' Mort Kondracke says "Why don't we just tell people what the exit polling says and then start to match it up against these things."

[9:15pm] TVNewser posts about FOX News making an incorrect projection about Indiana's gubernatorial race.

[9:17pm] CBS has John Roberts showing a U.S. map detailing the amount of money spent during election campaigns on advertising dollars. $116 million spent in Florida, Ohio was second at $104 million.

[9:22pm] Pavel at Command Post posts about FOX announcing that Colorado's Amendment 36 will be a "No," keeping all of the state's 9 electoral votes together, rather than splitting them by percentage.

[9:25pm] MSNBC projects Louisiana, Mississippi for Bush. Electoral update: 171 Bush, 112 Kerry

[9:44pm] Tom Brokaw, on NBC, states that President Bush has apparently called some reporters to his living quarters to say something "on camera." Then, of course, the commercials come on. Turns out, it was just the "family portrait" of the Bush family at home, watching the election returns.

[10:48pm] MSNBC gives AZ to Bush, PA to Kerry. Just prior to this, Joe Scarborough and Andrea Mitchell are kind of going back and forth about what states the Republicans can consider "going their way" or not. Seemed a little uncomfortable. I think Matthews was happy to be able to break this up.

[11/3 10:30am] MSNBC's Carl Rochelle reporting that it might not be too long before President Bush could come out and "declare" victory. James Hattori, in Boston, seems to be expecting concession from the Kerry camp.