Last month, amid the hubbub surrounding alleged voter-roll irregularities across the U.S., registration paperwork was mailed to a deceased goldfish in the Chicago suburbs by the name of Princess Nudelman. The story made headlines and even became fodder for a Saturday Night Live punch line. But new research suggests that Princess may have been an informed voter, after all, had she been around to see Election Day: new research indicates that schools of fish choose their leaders by consensus, weighing the preferences of peers before making a choice.

An Election Day apotheosis won't change human nature.

Electoral maps are all the rage in presidential election coverage, with NBC going so far as to turn the Rockefeller Center ice rink in New York City into a map of the U.S. on Election Day. As the network called states for the two candidates, Sens. Barack Obama and John McCain, staffers manually colored those states blue or red, respectively. [More]

It's been a long slog to get to this election day. We all know the campaigns spent millions to get their messages across. But Bob Grant at The Scientist wondered about the environmental cost (log-in required)--specifically how much the campaigns of Sens. Barack Obama and John McCain contributed to global warming.

Connie Schultz In a nation hungry for heroes on election day, blue-collar Ohio delivered.

Last Tuesday morning--a week before Election Day--John McCain called on Senator Ted Stevens, of Alaska, the longest-serving Republican in Congress, to step down. The day before, a jury in Washington, D.C., had found Stevens guilty on seven counts of lying on his financial-disclosure forms in order . . .

Ari Berman South Bend Democrats have adopted Barack Obama as their own, as they attempt to claim this battleground state on Election Day.

Ari Berman No matter what happens on Election Day, a battle for the soul of the Republican Party is well under way.

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John Nichols Keep an eye on whether Obama is above or below 50 percent as Election Day approaches.