OK, now the projections

2.27am Bush is completely absent/invisible. I can't recall an election when the sitting president has been so absent. They've had him locked away for days....

2.02am Fox news calls Ohio for Obama.

2.01am What an amazing, diverse, variegated country the US is.

1.58am The republican 'victory' party looks like a funeral reception

1.37am BBC showing Obama on the move in a great big motorcade in Chicago. He's making the transition to president in waiting. The iconography is changing.

1.33am Is Obama George Bush's gift to the world? Or George Bush's real legacy?

1.29am I wonder where George Bush is and what he's thinking right now?

1.22am Critique of the McCain campaign, which the pundits are beginning to unpick already; "the fish rots from the head"

1.21am Obama had Bruce Springsteen in Ohio; McCain's got the Phoenix Boys' Choir trying to cheer up the republicans in Arizona

1.15am Elizabeth Dole loses North Carolina. Looks like Obama could have NC in the bag.

1.10am The mood has changed. Looks like a total wipeout for the republicans.

1.04am Looking like a landslide for Obama. Virginia, Ohio, Colorado...even if McCain takes Florida and Ohio (unlikely) he can barely win.