I hate to sound like a buzzkill, but so far, Election Day is kind of boring.

You see, Super Tuesday really set the bar unfairly high.  Waaaaaay back then, the first time I was carrying a magical Nokia N95 around town for awesomely ground-breaking live streaming MTV coverage, there were a lot more people in the race, a lot more activity, and a lot more parties.  There were still at least two viable Democrats and a handful of hopeful Republicans, so no matter what part of town you were in, there was a fight to watch. Even here in the rather blue Fulton County and the City of Atlanta proper, Romney supporters were rallying against McCain supporters and the Ron Paul Re-love-ution army was as optimistic as ever.  Just a block from where I am now at Manuel's Tavern, the home away from home for all Atlanta Democrats, Clinton and Obama supporters faced off at a prime intersection with their visibility endeavors.

That's not so much happening today.

Inside the city limits, it's safe Democratic territory, so the Obama campaign told me officially that they were not organizing any visibility efforts; it was mostly phone banking from HQ, which you saw on Flixwagon.  Outside the city, it's solid Republican territory, so there's no McCain ground game -- which would be an informative statement if there was ever a real McCain ground game in Georgia in the first place.  But there hasn't been.

Both candidates seem to be ignoring the fact that Georgia is teetering on the brink.  A couple weeks ago, Matt Towery of Insider Advantage said that Georgia could quite conceivably go blue for the first time since 1992 for Bill Clinton, and his data showed Obama ahead for the first time all year.  Sure, there were a couple other polls saying McCain still had a few points of advantage, but Towery's organization has had an impressive record calling southern state results that no other polling firms have seen coming -- you might say he's a "maverick" among pollsters, and then you might have to take a swig of your beer in your Political Buzz Word Drinking Game.

And while the Obama campaign has kept working hard in hopes of flipping this state, the candidate himself hasn't been seen 'round these parts in quite some time.  He went from Florida to North Carolina to Virginia yesterday but skipped over us completely, and rumors of his running mate Joe Biden doing a drop-by for Senate candidate Jim Martin fizzled by the 5 p.m. rally.  Obama may know he has a shot at Georgia, but he didn't come by to close the deal in person. By the same token, if McCain loses Georgia, it'll be his own fault; for the last few weeks, plugging in my ZIP code and a 25 mile radius to McCain's website has revealed zip, zilch, nada in terms of grassroots campaign events.  The threat to McCain's campaign here has been building steadily since the economy visibly tanked but there has been no serious counter-offensive.  

So, to reiterate my initial point, today has been kind of boring.  Whatever is going to happen tonight as far as Georgia tipping one way or the other has been set up slowly and steadily behind the scenes, and it's all about turnout.  It hasn't been about major visibility or razzle-dazzle events, so there isn't much to film until the news comes in and the crowd goes wild.

Or doesn't.

It's too loud at Manuel's Tavern, which is already bursting at the seams before many people get home from work, to get any intelligible Flixwagon footage.  I'll be heading to the Hyatt hotel downtown in a while to get reaction footage from Democratic hospitality suites that are hopefully more microphone-friendly.

There's a lot of hope in the air, but it's still six-to-five and pick 'em, as Aaron Sorkin might say.