After 12 long hours of Election Day voting, polls closed at 7 p.m. in Texas.

Well, sort of.

El Paso, which lies in the westernmost part of Texas, is in the Mountain time zone. The state has to wait for that part of Texas to finish polling before anyone can call it.

But now the countdown has begun, and polls are officially closed all across the state.

Many students had to wait in long lines at polling locations. I talked to a few students as they left the polls about the wait. The line at the Old Fish Hatchery in San Marcos, Texas, which is the polling place for most students at Texas State University-San Marcos, snaked in front of the building and out the side. The university is located about 30 minutes south of the capitol, Austin, Texas.

I'm hanging out at the LBJ Student Center at Texas State for the night to watch election results come in. Students are watching CNN election coverage on a big projection screen and TV located throughout. So far, people have been getting pretty pumped once a projection is announced.

Currently, Barack Obama leads in electoral votes 174-49.