The final round of Heartland Idol starts at 6 p.m. on the Circle on Saturday. ...more

November 7, 2008

The final round of Heartland Idol starts at 6 p.m. on the Circle Saturday. ...more

November 6, 2008

10:41 p.m. Even though it's not official, everyone in this room thinks it's a Barack Obama victory. ...more

November 4, 2008

9:01 p.m. The apparent passage of Florida's marriage amendment drew big cheers from Republicans at the Florida GOP's watch party in St. Petersburg. ...more

November 4, 2008

8:41 p.m.: The doors are open at the Tampa Waterside Marriott for those who volunteered for Barack Obama's campaign in Florida. ...more

November 4, 2008

8:30 p.m. Obama supporters continue to pour in the open doors of the Good Luck Café in Ybor City, joining about 85 partiers noshing on free chicken wings and meatballs, ready to cheer on their man. ...more

November 4, 2008

2:38 p.m.: Not much was happening over the lunch hour and early afternoon at Apollo Beach Elementary School, home of Precinct 941. ...more

November 4, 2008

2:06 p.m.: USF student Jotham Fady, 23, lives at the Graham Park Apartments, 305 Martin Luther King St. S, near Precinct 131 and 132 in St. Petersburg. ...more

November 4, 2008

11: 25 a.m.: Marlise Tolbert-Jones usually likes to stay out of the limelight, but she is front and center among a crowd of Barack Obama supporters outside the polling place at Progress Village Park. ...more

November 4, 2008

7:30 a.m.: Annette Ferrerr had expected a huge crowd at the Jimmie B. Keel Regional Library in Tampa when she arrived about 7:30 a.m. Instead, she found a relatively short line. She brought a magazine to keep her occupied but really didn't think she'd get through much of it. "I don't expect to be here more than an hour," she said. ...more

November 4, 2008