Sen. John McCain has almost as many good luck charms as there are swing states, “ranging from a trusty compass to a feather, pen, blue sweater, shoes and penny.”

Sen. Barack Obama will wear an eagle pin and carry around a small charm of a Hindu monkey god.

As for their election night activities, McCain will continue the tradition of watching a movie as the results start to come in. Trailing in national polls, perhaps he’ll enjoy the football underdog movie Rudy?

Obama has a tradition of playing basketball the day of a big vote, which he did during the long and grueling primary season. The one primary contest when he didn’t play? The January 8 New Hampshire primary where he surprisingly lost to Hillary Clinton. I’m not sure who will play against the Democrat, but I would watch out for his long-range shooting.

As of about 9:45 a.m., the network reported that 22,000 people had already called to complain, many saying they had received calls, e-mails or text messages telling them that voting was postponed until Wednesday.

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CNN is reporting complaints of voting machine problems this morning in New Jersey, Virginia, Florida and Illinois. Voters at New York, Ohio, North Carolina and Missouri also had miscellaneous difficulties at polling places.

We’ll be updating the national election buzz here all day (and into tomorrow if necessary).

The candidates made sure their votes were counted, as Sens. Barack Obama, Joe Biden, John McCain and Gov. Sarah Palin all went to the polling places and voted this morning. Yahoo! News has the story from the AP here.

Some news outlets wondered if Palin, who ventured all the way back to Wasilla, Alaska to cast her ballot, voted for Alaskan Sen. Ted Stevens, who was recently convicted on ethics charges. No word yet on if she did or didn’t.