Today is election day in the United Kingdom, and the polls are just closing. Polls have been open all day as people continued to flood in to place their vote.

According to the Financial Times the “Final opinion polls suggested the country is heading for a hung parliament in which the Conservatives are short of an overall majority in the House of Commons.” However, the conservatives right now are in place to achieve a dominant lead over the Labour and Liberal Democrat parties. If the conservatives win, this will be the first time in 13 years that they lead with David Cameron as the Conservative party leader.

Indiana is expected to have a record turnout for primary voters in a non-presedential election year. Early voting, voting centers still being operational in many communities like West Lafayette, hot-button local issues like school referendums and a large number of candidates competing for a variety of races has risen expectations for midterm election turnout.

Spokesman Jim Gavin of the Secretary of State’s office said more than 48,000 people had voted in person with nearly and that nearly 100,000 people have voted in total early voting before the cutoff. That’s close to 40,000 more absentee voters than in 2006.

Brad Ellsworth’s Quest For Rational Middle Gets Him Funds But Little Support

It’s tough being a moderate these days. In an increasingly passionate electorate, he who yells the loudest wins, or at least gets the most press. As a self-proclaimed member the “fiscally conservative Blue Dog Coalition”, Ellsworth is a pro-life, pro-gun democrat who is weak at best on LGBT issues.

It’s become commonplace for political candidates  to use social media for campaigning, but recently many of them have started using it not just to express their views on an issue or to release statements of their plans to the public as in Senator Evan Bayh’s case, “Here is the video of my retirement announcement.http://bit.ly/cBhAu7” (@SenEvanBayh). They have also begun using it in ways to reveal their personality in less formal, biting ways.

Indiana is going to be a battleground state again in midterm elections, if Karl Rove has anything say about it.