The New York Times is reporting that Bill Buckley is dead. They have no story to go with the headline yet.

Obviously I didn't agree with much he ever said or wrote, but the guy was leagues better than the spittle-spewing Limbaugh-Fox types that pass for "conservative commentators" nowadays. I for one will miss him.

Updates below...

From their blog:

"Exit polls gave Sen. Kerry a 52%-48% lead in Ohio shortly after polls closed at 7:30 p.m. ET, but neither the TV networks or the AP had called the battleground state based on those projections. Also close was North Carolina."

http://www.usatoday.com/news/politicselections/vote2004/electionsBlog.htm