THREE DAYS TO GO - AT 10:08 A.M. ET:  Most interesting last-minute polling is in New Jersey, where the governorship race is a dead heat.  All late poll results are inside the margin of error. I still expect the disliked incumbent governor, Democrat Jon Corzine, to pull it out because it's a Dem state and the Dems control the election machinery, but, hey, you never know.  If the GOP guy, Chris Christie, can topple Corzine, they'll be preparing Molotov cocktails in the White House.

Also a dead-heat is New York's 23rd Congressional District, where it's now come down to a race between the Dem candidate, Bill Owens, and the Conservative Party candidate, Doug Hoffman.  The establishment GOP candidate, Dede Scozzafava, has fallen into an embarrassing third place in this normally Republican district.  If Hoffman surges to victory, he's a new right-wing hero.  If he splits the vote just enough for Dem Owens to win, he's a goat.

Virginia is safely GOP in the governor's column unless all GOP voters get the flu by Tuesday.

Mike Bloomberg is safe for a third term as mayor of New York, keeping the Dems out of power in this overwhelmingly Democratic city for 20 years.  There isn't a Democratic meter maid left in the city.  The ones now can actually read the meters.

October 31,  2009