11:44 PM - Decided to sleep in today. I gave the folks over at headquarters the day off today. They insisted that we needed to do some calling to get people to the polls, but I told them to reread my post from yesterday and shut up.

My speech writer called me at about ten this morning telling me that we needed to get moving on an outline for a concession speech. I already have a great acceptance speech planned which you’ll get to hear in a few hours (here’s a teaser: fireworks), and I’ve been telling this guy over and over again that he’ll have to start looking for a new job if he mentions the “c-word” one more time (meaning “concession” in this case. I can understand how that might be confusing, otherwise.).

So, after I fired that dude, I got up, made myself a breakfast burrito, looked at NY Times.com, watched one of the hilarious bonus features on the unrated edition of the Forgetting Sarah Marshall DVD and decided to update the LiveBlog I promised you.

I’ll be updating this periodically, so be sure to check back. And I’ll be seeing all of you in your homes, on your TVs, at around 9 o’clock when the polls close. Until then…