Well, this is it, Street Team fans, the end of this crazy election road.  Here's my 4 minute flashback of the last 40 weeks, celebrated with a 40 as it should be.

So what are you going to do now?  Are you going to let this moment fade into history or pick it up and run with it?  I'm off to finish this dissertation that just won't die and hopefully head to Washington, D.C., to explain technology to politicians, with a little luck.  Keep in touch with me at shelbinator.com -- and we'll see you on down the trail.  

Thanks to Liz, Kristin, Rya, Jim, Conor, and the Knight Foundation for making this gig possible.

 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.

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"Mo" Ivory of Georgia's Campaign for Change says early polling data has showed an underwhelming turnout among students -- a crucial demographic for Barack Obama. Never fear, the Obama Bus is here, taking students to the polls during the final week of early voting. A few Georgia State students share why they got on board.

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Partisan rancor seems to have been getting steadily worse over the last several years.  In this presidential campaign, things have gotten particularly ugly in terms of heated rhetoric at campaign rallies, for example with shouts of "terrorist" and "kill him" in response to mentions of Barack Obama at McCain-Palin rallies.  Last week, at a rally in Pennsylvania, a man proudly displayed a Curious George monkey doll with an Obama sticker on its head, introducing it as "little Hussein" who was there to hear from "real Americans."  

Here's the thing: racism sucks. Period. 

On the flip side, the hostility from the left is frequently manifested in parodies of Sarah Palin, mocking not just her political experience but her core values and beliefs in rather exaggerated and unflattering terms.  

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I recently reported on an evening with CBS correspondent Jeff Greenfield, courtesy of the Arthur M. Blank Family Foundation. In advance of the program Mr. Greenfield had said, "I still have a Jeffersonian faith in our capacity to reach for the best in us when we have to. But the more I look at the present, and the future, of media, the more that faith is tested." So I put together this video for the event to give a perspective on the Street Team's role in the evolution of media this election year.

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Last Tuesday, CBS News senior political correspondent Jeff Greenfield addressed a packed house in Atlanta at the Arthur M. Blank Family Foundation as part of its regular Speaker Series. With dozens of local college students -- largely from journalism and related departments -- in the audience by special invitation, Greenfield hoped to provide as fair an assessment of where the election has been, and where it was going, as can be hoped for in an age of spin and punditry. But he began with a disclaimer.

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Troy Anthony Davis was not yet 21 years old when he surrendered himself to Savannah police hoping to clear himself as a suspect in the fatal shooting of police officer Mark Allen MacPhail. Barring a dramatic change of course, next Tuesday, September 23, he will be 39 years old when the state of Georgia kills him for that crime.

Some of you might be thinking, No big deal, right? "Cop killer" gets his comeuppance, that's the law.

Unfortunately, in this case, the lines are not so clearly drawn. There was no physical evidence tying Davis to the crime in this case...

On August 28, 2008, Barack Obama made history by becoming the first African-American to accept the presidential nomination of a major party. He did so on an historic anniversary, too, that of Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream" speech 45 years earlier. In Atlanta, not far from King's old neighborhood, the politically-conscious have one place to go to watch history being made, and that's where I was on August 28: Manuel's Tavern.

While the current establishment isn't that old even in American history terms -- founded in 1956 by Manuel Maloof -- i...