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Tally for electoral votes. candidate, again, needs 270 to win the race for the white house. that's the magic number. >> megyn: they are on their way. it is 7:09 here in the east. we are just getting started tonight, folks. coming up, analysis from the best of the fox news political team. carl rove, chris wallace, joe trippi. >> bret: also with us, mike huckabee, dana perino, sarah palin, laura ingraham, bob beckel and liz cheney, plus, bill o'reilly and greta van susteren. >> megyn: as we watch the results come in tonight live from america's election headquarters. well, if it isn't mr. margin.

The exit poll -- how the actual precinct where they conducted the exit poll voted and what the exit poller gave in. and that helps them to evaluate the exit poll for the 60 or 90 places in a state where it was conducted and how much of an error there is and how much to discount the result to see if we're 99.6% confident that we can call a state. >> megyn: how long does it take to actually count the vote? early on we have to do this weird, you know, calculation where we say exit poll data plus actual raw vote. in a state for virginia do they count votes quickly? should we know quickly what the ...

Is what you need to know right now. you are 23 minutes away from closing time here at 7:00 eastern time. keys to watch this hour. watch the margin in indiana. that was a state that the president won in 2008 by less than 30,000 votes. it was razor tight. republicans expected to take indiana back this year. we'll see if they do that, if they do that and what sort of margin. the big one here at 7:00, is virginia. 13 electoral votes. at 7:01 eastern time, literally, 22 minutes and 30 some odd seconds from now you will see various counties and cities in virginia start to fill in. red is republican....

"weekly standard." brit, your thoughts? >> you keep asking me that. >> bret: easy question, brit. not even 7:00. >> i'm not sure knowing more than i did 24 hours ago. i did notice when martha reviewed the exit poll findings that romney was holding up pretty well among households with the government employee. that is important because we have virginia where the polls will close, a critical state for romney. important for the president. and it suggests the possibility at least that in places like articling top county, outside of washington, fair fax county, beyond arlington county. these are the...

Economy better. slightly more voters think that president obama is more in touch with people like them. okay? look at ohio and go forward. this is the hotly contested state perhaps the most, though, of the evening. union households. not a big surprise, they are breaking for president obama tonight by a fairly large margin. working class whites are siding with romney. in ohio. to show you just how close it is in the state of virginia, as we get a early look at this. that is where federal government workers reside. you would think they would lean more toward president obama but they split the vo...