It all boils down to this. Over the next eighteen hours, or so, voters will stream to the polls across our country to select our forty-fourth president. All ready millions of votes have been cast in early voting. Nearly two million people have voted already in Georgia, a state where 3.3 million voters in total voted in 2004. The early voting lines in Florida where so long that the Governor ordered the polls be open an extra four hours each day. In all thirty-one states currently have early voting and many are reporting record turnout and long lines for the early voting.

Shortly, the polls will open in Connecticut, a state that does not currently have early voting. As soon as I finish this blog post, I will go and vote. I plan on Videoing my vote, and Twittering my vote to Vote Report. I will then stand at the polls to talk with incoming voters about the state legislative candidates as well as the ballot questions in Connecticut.

A lot of attention has been placed on the Presidential election, yet there are also congressional elections, and state legislative elections. Here in Connecticut, the state legislative races should be especially interesting to watch. Last year, our state legislature passed a bill enabling public funding of state elections. You can get details about the program at the State Election Enforcement Commission’s Citizen Election Program website. It has certainly livened up the races here in Connecticut.

My wife is working for Common Cause, which is partner in the 866-our-vote voter protection project. She will be tracking and dealing with voter suppression issues in this election.

When I finish my poll standing, I will hop on a train to Washington DC, where I will be joining a group of nprbloggers to report on election returns. While I expect to write a little on the nuts and bolts of the Connecticut results as well as any issues with voter suppression, I intend to write a bit about the larger issues, the issues of narrative and if and how this is changing our country.

Stay tuned. Leave me any thoughts you have. No matter what happens, it will be an historic day.