The sunshine state of Florida is showing early election results that Barack Obama has 51% to McCains' 48% with 41% of the precincts reporting. MSNBC is projecting Barack Obama as the early election winner in Florida.

Here is a nicely constructed Electoral College Map from the polling meta-analysts at the Princeton Election Consortium, to which I was alerted by my colleague Isaac Martin.

As U.S. voters focus on getting out to vote and checking to see if their candidate won, more attention will be paid to early exit poll results in the 2008 election.

After almost two years of campaigning, Barack Obama will make his "closing argument" today and I like where he's going. I have some exceprts here from the prepared remarks. Key to me is this: "So the choice in this election isn't between tax cuts and no tax cuts. It's about whether you believe we should only reward wealth, or whether we should also reward the work and workers who create it."

An exuberant Barack Obama has offered a cheeky prediction he would be president until 2016, as he tried to lend his winning streak to his home city of Chicago's Olympics bid.

I think we can expect a lot more of this from the two Democratic camps over the next few months - and I think I’m going to like it (New York Times - The Caucus, emphasis added):

Polls are now closed in in delegate rich California. While all eyes are on California exit poll results, since Democrats are running neck and neck, let see if the California Primary Exit Poll Results have meaning.

Barack Obama's run for the White House is changing the face of American politics… and the energetic campaign by the 46-year-old African-American senator from Illinois is getting a lot of African-American voters talking. We asked our reporters in New York City and in Jackson, Mississippi, to sample some of their thoughts on this historic turn during this Super Tuesday in U.S. presidential politics.

Barack Obama Is Leading early Missouri Poll Results That Are Released by Reuters/C SPAN/Zogby Tracking Poll.

Democratic presidential hopefuls Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama sparred over health care, immigration and the war in Iraq in a debate in Los Angeles Thursday. VOA's Mike O'Sullivan reports the last two major contenders for the Democratic Party's presidential nomination also found common ground as they head into party preference polls on Tuesday.

Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney accused rival John McCain of dirty tricks during a lively debate Wednesday evening. Mike O'Sullivan reports, the Republican candidates squared off at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, California, each invoking the legacy of the late president.

Barack Obama has won the South Carolina Democratic primary, with 55 percent of the vote.