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November 8, 2006 - UPDATE: Our Alabama tables got switched. That's another state legislature that's in the DEMOCRATIC column.Democrats were victorious in key Southern races for U.S. Congress. But how did the election play out in Southern state legislatures?According to the latest results available, the Democratic wave carried to statehouses in the South, with Democrats making substantial gains in Southern state house and senate races. Among the key results:

November 8, 2006 - The Associated Press looks at the exit polls, and finds that the reports we've been seeing for months about frustrated Christian conservative "values voters" ended up having an impact:

November 8, 2006 - Amendments to ban gay marriage have easily passed in the three Southern states where they were on the ballot: South Carolina, Tennessee and Virginia. The margins are most lopsided in SC and TN, a bit tighter in VA. Key question is how the presence of anti-gay marriage amendment is impacting VA Senate race.

November 8, 2006 - Famous North Carolina blogger and Institute board member Pam Spaulding of Pam's House Blend is blogging with with representatives of 30 of the top blogs at the CNN E-lection Blogger

November 7, 2006 - So far, there's been no update on this report from the Associated Press which appeared earlier today, confirming that the FBI and State Board of Elections in Virginia would be investigating multiple reports of voter suppression tactics:

November 7, 2006 - A follow-up to our earlier post about Durham County, North Carolina, and their enlightened decision to extend poll hours at a precinct where 100 voters where waiting this morning at a locked church.

November 7, 2006 - OK, sorry for the bad joke in the headline, but South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford was turned away from the polls because he forgot his voter registration card: