If you're like me, nine days from today you'll be unable to do anything except perch yourself on the edge of the Internet waiting for election results. Picture yourself Tuesday evening (or late afternoon on the left coast). The MSM will be babbling inanely about Republican Shock and Awe. You'll be hoping they are wrong, but how will you be able to tell?
Here I provide a look at key House and Senate races in states that have the earliest poll closing times, from Kentucky at 6:00 pm ET (3:00 pm PT), to West Virginia and Ohio at 7:30 pm ET (4:30 PM PT). As the results settle down for these key races, we should get a pretty good feel for whether November 2nd, 2010 will be a replay of 1994, or whether Democrats will have rallied enough to prevent Armageddon.