Stayed up until 7am in Prague watching the MSNBC stream (no TV here). I felt good when PA went blue, but worried about lots of “not called” until OH went blue as well. Then just waited for CA to push him over 270. A few tears were shed… what a great night.
I am flying to the US tomorrow and for the first time in a very, very long time, am really proud of my country. 
Luckily for me, on this side of the world, we had live coverage via-SBS-via CNN & BBC coverage so it was all happening in the middle of the day for me. I had that channel on all day at a volume I could hear throughout the house - found out when CNN called it with a satellite delay of probably at least 30 seconds to a minute.
Guild chat.
Obama rolls 51 (1-100)
McCain rolls 49 (1-100)
McCain has left the raid
Palin has left the raid
McCain has left the guild
Palin is now being ignored.
I was at work.
Here in Australia, we have this newfangled magick pictures machine, and some of the workers had gotten it running and were looking at its glass and listening to the voices from within it.
We were watching the ABC coverage. They went to a commercial break when Obama was at 207 so we switched over to the Comedy Central coverage. John Stewart almost immediately announced that Obama had won but we thought he was joking. It took several minutes of internet checking before we were able to suspend our suspension of disbelief and begin to celebrate.
On my way home from an election party; I had looked at the coverage off and on during the evening. Last time I looked, Obama was at 102. I left at 10 pm to go home and passed an electronic billboard; I was surprised to see it displaying the election counts. By that time he had 297, I knew it was in the bag.
I was up at midnight, and loaded up yahho.com (I figured every place would have the answer). I figured it would still be too close to call, and I’d have to wait until this morning, but was shocked and very pleased to see that they had already called it for Obama and was greeted by Obama’s smiling face and the news “US ELECTS FIRST BLACK PRESIDENT”.
I was flipping back and forth, trying to get a feel of everyone’s coverage and what things they were looking at (NBC seemed to spend more time down-ticket than ABC, that sort of thing). While I was on MSNBC just after 9:30, Keith Olbermann* mentioned that with 200 votes and polls on the west coast still open, Obama could assume California, Hawaii and Washington for another 70 votes, which was the ballgame right there. (This was not too long after everyone forecast Ohio for Obama.)
But since nobody will assign a state before its polls close, I was actually watching Fox News at 11:00 (EST) when it became “official” and the west coast and Hawaii all lit up blue.
As an aside, someone high up at Fox News must have issued a “thou shalt stick to straight analysis” commandment, because the coverage I would have expected – right-wing versions of the MSNBC crowd, to be blunt – didn’t appear. Much. But Rove being conciliatory (obsequious?) at 11:01 seemed downright surreal.
Daily Show and my neighborhood exploded with cheers, horn honking and fireworks.
I was watching CNN at the gym while on the stationary bike, but half of the states hadn’t been called yet. By the time I got home, about 8:30 p.m., McCain was giving his concession speech. I checked Yahoo to make sure, saw Obama’s face on the opening page, called my brother, who was still on the train home, and danced with my daughter for the next couple of minutes.
I was watching the Daily Show’s coverage when they went to commercial. Since it was near the top of the hour, I switched back over to CNN. Within moments, CNN called it. Naturally, I stayed with the serious coverage until both speeches were over.
Watching CNN with friends at the Human Rights Campaign’s election-watch party, at the Capitol City Brewing Company by Union Station, in DC. Huge place, if you’ve never been there, and the room roared when Obama won. I’ve never seen anything like it.
Then we all went to the White House, chanting “Yes we did! Yes we did!” Incredible, incredible night.
Woke up, went to my husband’s computer, had to avert my eyes from the Google homepage because I wanted to find out from 538!
And that’s what I did 
Felt kind of like checking my bar results, but far more happy.
Essentially, this; I saw it on the CNN website around 9:30 EST. That put him at 200 EVs, with 77 in his pocket at 11 pm.
It was clear from watching the results on TV from then until 11 that everyone else had also done the math. They wouldn’t call it for him, but they spoke as though he had won.
From CNN when they announced it. I promptly grab a cold frosty bottle, and turned the channel to FoxNews so I could gloat and moon the TV.
When the EC got to 200 I knew it was in the bag (as long as the pundits didn’t have the 200 wrong), since he was for sure going to add Oregon, Washington, California and Hawaii to that total, putting him over the top. It was then that I moseyed down to the local watering hole to watch the rest of it. It became “real” when McCain made his concession speech. It became exhilarating when Obama made his speech. It will be so nice to again have a president who is a great public speaker. If he can be an effective president it will put the icing on the cake.
It was the first thing my grandmother told me (joyfully) when she saw me today. We are not American, but she watches the news religiously.
Just like this.
Election party! We had a projector screen showing CNN, and a TV showing the daily show. 60+ people in a courtyard cheering. It wasn’t official, but after McCain gave his lost speech we toasted with Champagne.
We were watching the election results on CNN. After they called Ohio for Obama, Campbell Brown asked the guy running the big board “Show me how McCain can win after this”, and the guy was literally speechless. He proceeded to turn all the remaining states pink (i.e. red, but not officially “called”) except for the West Coast and Iowa, and that only put McCain at 265. I think that’s when I popped the cork on the champagne.