Today's the day

I'll probably be blogging pretty relentlessly today, with a couple of posts to set the scene for the upcoming battle as well as a long night of liveblogging from 10.30pm GMT, with hopes that we should know - for sure - who the next President of the United States is by around 5am GMT.

So here's the first of today's blogs.

First up, take a look here for an hour-by-hour guide to election night and what to look for when. I'll probably be returning to this later on to give an outline of early results.

Also, if you are into your numbers, FiveThirtyEight.com is a good place to go for stats and poll analysis They've run the numbers around 10,000 times - with Obama winning 90%+ of the time.

FoxNews has an interactive map here which will be updated throughout the night. MSNBC also have this feature and it is here. ABC's coverage is here. And you know I have them all bookmarked...

One more piece for the early morning post. ABC's George Stephanopoulos has 6 states to watch early on - Virginia, Indiana, Ohio, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Florida. Apparently McCain's campaign have said they need to win 5 out of those 6. But realistically, if he's to win, he'd probably have to win Pennsylvania - as well as the 5 other states that Bush won in 2004.

There's a long day ahead. Drink plenty fluids.

And if you have a vote, make sure you use it!