I'm blogging from Portland City Hall, where dozens of Maine voters and local candidates have gathered to collect returns from Portland precincts. It's been a crazy night!

After I left Brunswick, i went one town over to Freeport, where the local Ben & Jerry's scoop shop was giving away free ice cream cones to voters. I got there just before a huge group of people converged, and lines began to snake out the door. In Just 2 1/2 hours, scoopers had distributed more than 300 cones to voters for fulfilling their patriotic duty. Outside, more than a dozen young voters enjoyed scoops of Cherry Garcia and Half Baked while sharing well wishes for Barack Obama.

On to Portland, where I stopped in at a call center that had been rented by the League of Young Voters, so that more than 40 volunteers throughout the day could make more than 5,600 calls to local voters.

Afterward, volunteers gathered at the League headquarters to check out early national retiurns and share some inspiring stories of their interactions with people on the phones, and while going door to door, over the past four days.

Shortly after polls here closed, several Portland precincts were reporting 100 percent participation from registered voters. Statewise, close to 87 percent of registered voters turned out. Whatever happens tomorrow, today was clearly a historic day, at least in Maine!