Election night fever

Cups from 7/11 store

Long queues at this Richmond Polling station

It's currently 4.45pm here in Virginia and we are just a few hours away from the polls closing.

Yesterday I went to two rallys - one in Lynchburg for Mitt Romney, and one here in Richmond where Joe Biden was in attendence. The stark contrast between the UK and US in terms of politics is the amount of young people who are fully engaged in the political campaigns. Voting is something that young people encourage their peers to do, and it has been young people who have been the sources of energy in the last few days of campaigning. Their enthusiasm is contagious. If I can try and do anything with my experience of this campaign, I will try to encourage young people in the West Midlands to be as enthusiastic about politics as their counterparts are here.

This presidential race is far closer than much of the media would have you believe. The people of Richmond have been out on masse today voting, as you can see from the picture of the polling station I took earlier today.

Virginia is being tipped as one of the states to watch tonight in terms of determining who will be president tomorrow. We are incredibly excited to watch the results come in.

I've also had plenty of interest in the West Midlands about the work I have been doing here, and I hope I can upload an interview I've done with BBC WM and BBC Hereford and Worcester in the next few days or so.

Canvassing, telephoning and rallying!

TK4VA headquarters

It's been a busy Sunday here in Virginia, and once again Tim Kaine's volunteer office has been a sea of volunteers!

We've managed to both canvass and leave door hangars on doors today, as well as putting in a good session of telephone calls to arrange lifts for Tim supporters to make sure they can get to their local polling stations. Polling stations here open from 6am until 7pm, so volunteers are working incredibly hard to make sure voters have a plan for when they are going to go to the polling station. G.O.T.V is the focus here - Get Out The Vote!

Booking rides to the polling station for voters in Virginia!

I have tickets to the Joe Biden rally which is being held here in Virginia at around 6pm tomorrow which will be a great event to attend. Polls are changing on a daily basis, but all the stats are continuing to show that Virginia is an incredibly close race and the amount of work these volunteers are putting in will make all the difference!