NY: Having it Both Ways in Buffalo

By Spencer Hsu
Upstate voters reported receiving automated telephone calls urging them to vote for Obama for president and also for Republican state senate candidates in close races. The calls indicate how far even New York GOPers think the Democratic nominee's coattails might run.

Meanwhile, in New York City, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg (I) - who just won approval by the City Council to bypass a term-limits law and seek a third term as an independent -- arrived at his usual polling place PS 6 at 7:05 a.m.

Just ahead of him in line, reportedly, was former New York governor Eliot Spitzer, who lives around the corner from Bloomberg.