1.   Americans are showing far more patience and self-control than the television networks, pundits, legal scholars and exit pollsters who are following the election stalemate in Florida.

2.   Half the voters told exit pollsters they approved of the current Congress but the other half said they disapproved.

3.   Just around the corner await the Election Day ballot workers and exit pollsters and those color-coded Electoral College maps the networks light up, state by state.

4.   A Maine legislator wants to more tightly restrict exit pollsters.

5.   Exit pollsters at several voting stations said the two rival parties were neck-and-neck by mid-afternoon.