This is the Emergency Blogging System. Even if Papa’s had a WiFi hotspot and steveegg had a laptop, he wouldn’t be live-blogging the election.
The time is now 8 pm Central Standard Time. If the ‘Rats haven’t conned a judge to let them continue to bus people in from Illinois, the polls are now closed. It’s all over but the counting (and hopefully not the recounting and re-recounting and re-re-recounting like in Washington State in 2004).