Just five hours until the first polls close. And it is the final release of the electoral college tally by Rasmussen Reports.

According to Rasmussen, Obama is up by 6. However the most important number is not 6 but 52, which is the percentage of the popular vote he takes. Once you pass 51, undecided voters generally don’t mean squat. The other important number is 46, which is the percentage for McCain. This means the other important number is 2. That is the percentage of undecided voters.

But what is also very important in this poll is that this is a poll of likely voters. In a year when no one really knows what a likely voter is, this may just be meaningless.

Offices are partially empty today, as one-third of Obama voters appear to be out of the office, voting for their candidate. More than 31 million have voted early.

But there is one more interesting fact about this election day. There are very long lines in some locations, while others seem to have relatively few voters. While much of this may be due to a disproportionate distribution of voting machines, what it could mean is that one side are despondent and resigned to losing. If enough McCain voters just say “fuck it,” this landslide could be historic in nature. It could be like the kind of massive upheavals you see in nature every so many million years–or decades according to Palin’s 6000-year history of the world.