Election day is lively — in NY 23, there are reports police are being called to polling places to settle down overzealous Hoffman supporters, who seem mostly from out of town. They’re standing too close to the polling places and screaming anti-choice slogans at people going to vote.

Polls indicate that Hoffman should win fairly easily. It wouldn’t surprise me if this sort of behavior causes some people to switch their votes to someone else, however.

In New Jersey, in spite of some predictions of a Christie win, the GOP seems to be bracing for defeat. They’re already making up stories about voter fraud.

There’s word today that Senator Lieberman is saying he won’t join a Republican filibuster of the health care bill after all. Harry Reid and Lieberman have reached a “private understanding” on the matter, Alexander Bolton says at The Hill. Steve Benen says that in fact Senate Democrats and the White House never thought he would support the filibuster, even when he was saying he would, because they believe Lieberman to be totally insincere.

So how do they know he’s not lying now?

And what would the “private understanding” be? Nice little chairmanship you’ve got there, Senator. I’d hate to see anything happen to it.

That leaves us with wondering what Senator Lieberman was trying to accomplish by saying he would support the filibuster. The consensus seems to be he was just trying to get attention.