One day before Texans and Ohioans cast their votes, a number of polls show both contests looking too close to call. The blogger/reporter/pundit classes are putting the smart money on Obama winning Texas and Clinton winning Ohio. The only major poll showing Obama with a lead in Ohio is Zogby, who has had a mixed record this cycle.

The Moderate Voice says liberal activist group ACORN is paying people in Ohio to vote canvas for Obama. I suppose that's one way to boost the state's economy.

Meanwhile, while some local blogs are questioning a Columbus-Dispatch poll showing Clinton with a supposed 16 point edge.

CQ Politics' own Greg Giroux provides a helpful primer on why tomorrow's Texas results may be murky.

UPDATE:  ACORN is paying individuals to canvas for Obama, not literally paying them to vote for him.
A Wiki history of ACORN's previous conviction for, and other allegations of, violating election law can be found here.

Republicans yesterday managed to successfully hold two seats after special elections yesterday in VA-01 and OH-05. The fact that Ohio’s Bob Latta and Virginia’s Robert J. "Rob" Wittman held their party's seats isn’t the most stunning news.

However, liberal bloggers made a big push for the Ohio seat and are once again left discussing moral victories, rather than actual electoral ones. The bottom line: Republicans will spin this as a victory, but in reality, they essentially held par on 2006 numbers and had to spend valuable campaign cash to do so. Liberal bloggers will note a normally unnecessary cash influx from the GOP, but they were hoping for a true victory, rather than rationalizing defeat.

Daily Kos has perhaps the best progressive blogger analysis today:

Republicans beat us in the expectations game, got enough of their people out, and basically kept things even from 2006. They spent a shitload of money for an "expectations" game victory in what might have otherwise been a routine and uneventful hold. So well played to them. But the bottom line is that they held an R+10 seat. Funny that this is the sort of thing they're left "celebrating" these days.

Red State diarist Adam C also has a reasonable take from the right:

This combo of big wins seems to suggest that partisan R districts are holding up in a difficult environment where both parties and all parts of government are seen in a negative light. Note however that the NRCC and RNC had to get involved in OH-05 where they should not be needed. This takes money and time away from other tighter districts to spend on an R +10 area.

Meanwhile, Jonathan Singer tries spinning things a bit over at MyDD:

Simply put, regardless of the results of this election, the DCCC thoroughly outmaneuvered the NRCC.

But he quickly comes back with an update that puts things in a more rational context:

Update [2007-12-11 22:33:35 by Jonathan Singer]: To be clear, would I have liked to see a win? Yes. But the Republicans' victory was definitely a pyrrhic one, hurting them more in the long term than it helped them in the short run.