For the first time we have Supersoulty ahead in the poll, but a tie in registered voters.
There are 17 people on each side who registered, btw.
"Quiet as the proverbial church mouse."
"He may as well be speaking Swahili or High Norse to me..."
"Stop to breathe his pony..."
"Little Rhody goes for Gore."
"As hot and squalid as a New York elevator in August."
"He's run through Dixie like a big wheel through a cotton field."
"For him to win it would be like scratching his ear with his elbow."
"It's cardiac arrest time in this presidential race."
"It's call 911 time."
"Snug hardly says it."
"This thing is so wild, wacky, and woolly."
"Adios, its been good seeing you... it ain't gonna happen."
"The hour of decision may be drawing near--underscoring may--and don't bet the trailer money on it yet."
"Closest race in the English language."
"If you are saying, 'Hello, what's this, Dan Rather?'"
"The Texans with their 10 gallon hats and their Willie Nelson headbands..."
"When the going gets weird, anchormen punt."
"Close only counts with hand grenades and horseshoes, so close may not be good enough."
"The polls have been veering and wobbling so much that neither NASA nor the Russian Cosmodrone can track them..."
"This race is so tight you couldn't get a cigarette paper between them."
"They're all running around like a squirrel in a cage..."
"If Gore loses Florida, that's it, it's over, no chance, goodbye."
"We said earlier in the evening at one point that Governor Bush would probably be as mad as a rained on rooster."
"They're smiling like cats in a creamery down in Austin."
"So there's where we are in the electoral college; for one reason it's a ding dong battle back and forth."
"You know the old saying: bad data in, bad data out."
"This is heart pumping twist on this rolly coaster ride."
"The presidential race is are crackling like a hickory fire."
"Governor, you didn't just tumble off the turnip truck."
"You can bet the rent money..."
"They are doing backflips in Nashville."
"It's tension city."
"Hold on to your drawers."
"Back here at CBS News' Accuracy Central..."
"If California is the big burrito and Texas is the big taco, then Florida is the big tamale....and right now, it's the only tamale that counts."
"Turn down the lights, the party just got started."
"The lights are going out for them."
"Votes only talk, everything else walks."
"Bush and Gore are closer than two pages in a book."
"As they say in opera, it's not really over until the heavy lady sings, but Bush hears her humming backstage."
"If... if a frog had sidepockets he'd carry a handgun."
"About as complicated as a wiring diagram for some dynamo."
"Well, the word 'goofy' comes to mind, but might be a little, might be a tad strong but I'm not so sure."
"Too early to say as the whiphand, but certainly things are shaded toward him."
"The Good Book says the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, but as a reporter you have to say, 'That's the way to bet it.'"
"I'm reminded of the sign in a west Texas saloon that said 'Don't shoot the piano player, he's doing the best job he can.'"
"Virginia goes to George Bush--that's whoopee news down in Texas."
"You've got time to put on another pot of coffee and pour it."
"Folks, this thing is getting really interesting."
"This race is the equivalent of hand-to-hand combat,"
"The flicker-tail state flicks for Bush." (North Dakota)
"Minnesota goes to Gore. What a heavy-weight match. What a fight!"
"It's a historic night. It's been a ding-dong battle any way you look at it."
"This is a knock 'em down, get up and come back kind of race."
"Sip it, savour it, cup it, underline it, mark it in red, press it in a book, hang it on the wall...George W. Bush is the new president of the United States."
"This is just a wild and woolly night."
"We don't know what to do here--wind a watch or bark at the moon!"
"And particularly this late in the morning, not everybody talks straight..."
"You'd have to say this thing is tight as the rusted lugnuts on a '55 Ford."
"The race is as hot and tight as a too small bathing suit on a too long ride back from the beach."