Many of you have voted already.  I'm going to PS 41 in the morning to vote.  Someone IMd me this afternoon, saying "I can't concentrate."  It's the election; tonight, three people said to me that they were worried about constitutional crises of various kinds tomorrow.

Whatever happens, the internet has had a huge effect on this election -- and I predict that we'll have a peaceful, civil day tomorrow, in part because of our ability to watch facts roll out online, in a river of commentary and adjustments and fierce blogging.  As John Schwartz so eloquently said in the Times yesterday:

Despite the fractious modern-day discourse, the nation's founders would have surely loved the debate fueled by the Internet. The pamphleteers of their day could be nettlesome and scurrilous, but the founders wrote the First Amendment with the faith that good ideas generally win out in the marketplace of ideas. . . .

The fact that today's marketplace of ideas has vendors that pass off shoddy goods should come as no surprise . . .  But Internauts didn't abandon eBay, which calls itself the "perfect market," or other online shops. Instead, they approach those marketplaces with a healthy dose of skepticism.

Given time, we all might become savvy consumers in the marketplace of ideas as well.

I like the "internaut" coinage, and I'm particularly happy that we have a beautiful view of a thriving marketplace of ideas.  Online.

We'll be fine.