If you're a political junkie who rose early enough to today to read this blog entry in real time -- at 8:30 a.m. on the east coast -- I hope you're planning on an afternoon nap or have a trove of Red Bull at the ready.
It's going to be a long night. Roughly half of all states hold primaries and caucuses today. The first polls close in the east just after dinner time, but results from the most important electoral prize of the evening for both Democrats and Republicans -- California -- will not roll in until well after bed time on the Atlantic coast.
We'll be here all day and night, tracking turnout, voting problems and more before the polls close, then providing real time analysis once the votes start rolling in.
We want to hear from you. Do you have pictures of long lines at your polling places? Did you have trouble voting? What do you think the race will look like after all the votes are counted this evening? Leave comments below, or drop me a line at smussenden AT mediageneral DOT com.
To kill time until the polls close, take a second to watch this cool video that will.i.am. of the Black Eyed Peas produced using samples from a Barack Obama stump speech. It's called "Yes, We Can." And as political videos go, it's pretty catchy.
--Sean Mussenden
Damn you Sean and will.i.am. This is really catchy. Just don't tell Hillary I said that.