1:45 p.m. Mike Kennedy is calling in reports re. voting numbers, and I'm posting them. Keep checking the comments feature under "and the voting begins." Also, if you have the numbers from your polls, please report them to Huckleberries Online.

11:19 a.m. Bill McCrory reports he was the 30th out of 870 to vote as of 10:30 a.m. at the Woodland Middle School poll. Remember to keep Huckleberries posted about your vote re. time, number of your vote, precinct and anything interesting that happens. Also, remember to vote; no suicide bombers are expected today.

10:06 p.m. Official blog numbers for last week: 11,628 or 1,661 per day. Official Sunday number: 1,549, which is three times the usual. Thanx.

10:02 p.m. If you're not reading the "comments" section of this blog, you should. You would have seen the brilliant rhyme exchange between The Bard of Sherman Avenue and Eagle Eye yesterday (which I pulled out onto the cover below) -- and some great banter re. the codger who addressed each fish he caught as "Hillary" in honor of the junior senator from New York.

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