News Item: “Sen. Ted Stevens (R-Alaska) maintained his lead over challenger Mark Begich with 99 percent of the precincts counted. . . .”

News Headline: "Voters to polls as epic campaign ends."

News Headline: "Palin implies bid for 2012 presidential campaign."

Mike Huckabee worrying about Republican get-out-the-vote efforts:

Internet Words of the Week (Joe Garofoli at SFGate.com):

Joe the Unlicensed Plumber on economics:

QT Early Warning System:

News Item: Banks receiving billions of dollars in taxpayer bailouts are hoarding the money instead of lending it to help restart the economy.

News item: McCain-Palin supporters in Woodbridge, Va., cheer on a man distributing "Obama for Change" bumper stickers featuring a Communist sickle and an Islamic crescent.

Historian Edward Luttwak on the 2008 presidential election:

News Item: McCain-Palin campaign mistakenly sends fund-raising letter to the Russian mission to the United Nations.

QT Early Warning System:

News Item: McCain-Palin campaign starts hundreds of thousands of automated phone calls in at least 10 swing states linking Barack Obama to terrorism.