More from Colin Woodard on the National Organization for Marriage's lawsuit to avoid revealing the source of the money it spent supporting Question 1.

New Left Media has produced a short, beautiful film chronicling the last two days of the No on 1 campaign.

Part 1:

Part 2:

Click below for the audio from Big Talk on WMPG last night. We intended to discuss all the election results, but mostly ended up focusing on Question 1.

An interesting historical note from today's BDN editorial:

Maine sent mixed messages about extending voting rights to women, before finally doing so. After the Legislature strongly endorsed women's suffrage in 1917, a people’s veto took back those voting rights. Two years later, however, Maine voters changed course and voted to ratify the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which extended the right to vote to women.

A heartbreaking gathering today on the steps of Portland's City Hall:

Full video.

Live blog over, election night posts can be found on twitter.

Not sure how much of a chance I'll get to blog tonight, but I'll try to keep up the twitter feed above. Feel free to give me a call or an email using the links above and on the right.

Last year, the BDN was the best at getting numbers online. Here's their results page.

Also: WGME, WMTW

Know of another online resource? Please leave a comment.

There's an interesting controversy playing out today on the pages of some national blogs about whether President Obama should have done more to oppose Question 1.

In particular, John Aravosis at America Blog has noted that Organizing for America, the successor to the Obama campaign and now a part of the DNC, sent an email to its Maine list asking them to phonebank for Governor Corzine's re-election in New Jersey but failing to mention the election in Maine.

The DNC has apparently denied that such an email was sent to Mainers, but I can confirm that I received it and have never been on their list as anything but a resident of Maine. Here's a screenshot with the gist of the email.

Overall, this seems like something that could be better discussed after the election. We still have 3 hours to GOTV.

A look at the Get Out The Vote efforts on Question 1:

And Question 4:

Apparently, eccentric unsuccessful Republican congressional candidate John Frary is the best spokesperson the Yes on 1 campaign could find to put up against Shenna Bellows in a debate at UMF.

The results are predictably hilarious:

Video of last night's debate (via):

Yesterday, the No on 1 campaign launched yet another campaign ad pushing back at the unfounded claims that the new law will somehow threaten Maine's schoolchildren.

The campaign also held a press call faulting Yes on 1 for attacking Maine teacher of the year Sherri Gould.

Here's the audio:

Mary Bonauto of Protect Maine Equality and Marc Mutty of Stand For Marriage Maine face off on WLBZ/WCSH:

No on 1 - Protect Maine Equality held a conference call today bringing together leaders in education policy and practice from all over the state to (hopefully) put to rest the scurrilous claims made by equal marriage opponents about what keeping Maine's same-sex marriage law will mean for Maine students.

Call participants included:

State Senator Justin Alfond, Chair of the Legislature’s Joint Standing Committee on Education and Cultural Affairs
State Representative Emily Cain, Chair of Appropriations and Financial Affairs Committee
Principal Pat Doyle, Oak Hill High School (School Union #44, Litchfield, Sabattus and Wales)
Sherri Gould of Corinna, 2005 Maine Teacher of the Year
Nina Roth-Wells, Georgetown School Committee Member

Click below to hear the call (runs 22 minutes).

In related news, Gerald was first to post a new poll released today by the No on 1 campaign showing 50% of respondents in favor of keeping the law. Only 41% of those surveyed said they would reject equal marriage.

The anti-gay marriage side's first ad is up.

I am suddenly very afraid of slow-motion Deb Simpson.