The polls have just opened in Virginia and New Hampshire this morning. Joining us is Josh Rogers, reporter for New Hampshire Public Radio and Tommie McNeil, political reporter for Virginia Public Radio.

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The Takeaway checks in with Dan Moulthrop, reporter from WCPN in Ohio, and Scott Finn from West Virginia Public Broadcasting.

BBC correspondent Karen Allen has spoken to some of Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama’s relatives. She joins The Takeaway from the village of Kogelo, in western Kenya.

One of the more interesting races taking place this election season is in North Carolina. Senator Elizabeth Dole, wife of former GOP presidential candidate Bob Dole, is fighting hard for her seat against Democratic State Senator Kay Hagan. Laura Leslie, Capitol Bureau Chief of North Carolina Public Radio, has been following the race closely and joins The Takeaway from Raleigh, North Carolina.

One of the most important states for both of the presidential candidates is Pennsylvania, and its polls are open now. The Takeaway is joined by Peter Crimmins from WHYY in Philadelphia.

For months we’ve heard about the Bradley Effect, record voter turnout and the purpling of America. Today we will find out which of these headlines have traction. For a look at what the numbers predict for tonight’s election results, The Takeaway checks in with pollster Ann Selzer. She's president of Selzer and Company, Inc. Her polling results for the Iowa caucuses, both the Democratic and Republican, were spot on. For the general election she has been polling Indiana, Iowa and Michigan.

Missouri has backed the winner in every presidential race since 1904 with only one exception. This year the polls predict an incredibly tight race. The Takeaway is joined by Adam Allington of KWMU in St. Louis to discuss what he's seeing on the ground and what that means for the rest of the nation. And Indiana reporter Micah Schweitzer talks about a red state that may be going blue.

The pictures from last week in Georgia were stunning — lines of voters snaking up and down the street, all of them waiting to vote early. Now that Election Day is finally here, what's happening at polling places? Adaora Udoji is at the Fulton County Government Building in Atlanta. On Friday, the line there stretched to 1,000 people, a four-and-a-half hour wait.

More than 600,000 people are receiving their US citizenship this year, and with citizenship come one of the most basic privileges of a democracy: the right to vote. The Takeaway catches up with first-time voters who are making their mark on this year’s election.

As Americans go to the polls today, The Takeaway marks the end of what many have called the most exciting presidential campaign in recent memory. Or at least the longest. Adam Nagourney, political reporter for the New York Times, has been there from the very beginning.

Rob Christensen, reporter for Raleigh News and Observer, checks in from Cary, North Carolina, and Dan Moulthrop, host of WCPN's "Sound Ideas," report about the fierce competition for the voters in swing state Ohio.

The Takeaway's Political Director Andrea Bernstein has been all over the country visiting "Counties that Count," the swing counties that could determine the outcome of the election.

For months, The Takeaway has been following undecided voters across the county. But one was so particularly evasive, we had to follow him all the way to the voting booth to find out his choice. Our Undecided Voter, Andrew Kupka, joins us from the West Forsythe High School in Cumming, Georgia.

Colorado has long been a solid red state, but like some other former Republican strongholds, it looks to be leaning Obama's way. Almost half of Colorado's registered voters have already voted. The Takeaway checks in with Rocky Mountain News Radio reporter Bente Birkeland.

Four years ago today, President Bush claimed 51 percent of the popular vote to Kerry's 48 percent, with a margin of about 3.5 million votes. With expanded Republican majorities in Congress, it looked as though the president's blend of free-market economics, cultural conservatism and hawkishness on national security might create long-lasting Republican rule. But political demographer Ruy Teixeira suggests otherwise.

While the presidential election is first and foremost in most voters' minds, voters in Minnesota have been witness to the most expensive — and one of the closest — congressional race in the country. Incumbent Republican Senator Norm Coleman and Democratic-Farmer-Labor challenger Al Franken have together raised more than $33 million.

Nevada, a once reliably Republican state, has just 5 electoral college votes, but both candidates are making a play for the state. John McCain, Sarah Palin and Michelle Obama were all there on Monday. Ian Mylchreest, a reporter from KNPR in Nevada, talks about how demographic changes and the economy have put Nevada in play.

Almost one year ago, when the presidential field was larger, The Takeaway began calling donors hoping to find the difference between giving a candidate money and giving them your vote. We found Pat Gallagher, a former Republican who changed his affiliation and donated to $500 to Barack Obama.

Polls are just opening in California, a state which has 17.3 million registered voters. Voters there are weighing in on a controversial ballot measure that would amend the state constitution to ban same sex marriage, known as Proposition 8. The Takeaway checks in with Kitte Felde, a reporter at Southern California Public Radio, on that and other ballot measures.