What to Watch For Tuesday Night

From Politico

PUNDIT PREP — NBC News Political Director Chuck Todd on “Today” and why Virginia at 7 p.m. Eastern may tell the night’s story: “They count their vote pretty quickly — they’re a very efficient state, as far as that’s concerned. We probably will know by 8 o’clock ... 8:15 . And if we’ve called this race by 8 o’clock and it’s conforming to the public polls that we see now, and Obama’s got that by 8 o’clock, boy, suddenly the path’s going to get narrow and all of us are gonna start having to come up with different words to describe how the election’s going.

***“If we HAVEN’T called Virginia and it’s getting closer to 9 o’clock, 10 o’clock, that could be a pretty good night for McCain.”

If O gets the Old Dominion, “We’re going to be watching just three states at that point — Florida, Ohio, North Carolina. Because if Obama’s got Virginia, all he needs is one more of that triangle. ... If he gets one of those three, then there’s no patch to 270 for John McCain.”