My Map is Our Map

This is how my map looks after coloring is complete. I actually colored this map using the generic Windows "Paint" program, so I'm sort of proud of my newfound "paint" abilities. Last night I introduced a few first-timers to "coloring on election night." We sat around eating buffalo wings, licking our fingers and coloring with blue and red pencils.  Grown men and women coloring while eating buffalo wings is a special sight.  The first-timers agreed: coloring on election night is fun.  Fortunately, there were no inadvertent colorings, a la Florida 2000.  I did, however, color the entire state of Maine without first assessing whether all four of its electoral votes (Maine splits its votes by congressional district...as does Nebraska, hence the white uncolored chunk on my map) had gone blue.  Lucky for me, it seems Maine's final electoral vote is, indeed, blue.  (Remember there is no erasing in electoral coloring!!).

What a great historic and emotional election! Thank you to all who voted. To all who joyfully and peacefully celebrated in the streets. And to you, dear readers, who shared your voting stories from across the country.  Those stories paint an even more colorful electoral map.  They are truly interesting and important.  If you have more stories about voting or election night (readers in DC and NYC were you in the streets?) please share.

UPDATE: Substantial returns have come in and I've posted a new map below to reflect that McCain squeezed out a win in Nebraska's 2nd Congressional District as well as in Missouri. And Obama eked out a win in North Carolina.