ELECTION DAY 10:27 AM EST

Back at homebase for a short while. Michael and I drove to Reidsville Middle School a little after 9 this morning. He waited outside while I went in and voted. And lemme tell ya: that was hands-down the most surreal moment of my life... and that's saying something! Seeing my own name on the ballot like that, it seemed so weird. Then I went back outside and it was still...

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ELECTION DAY: 9:01 AM EST

Well, we're off. For me to cast my own vote and then to visit various polls and stand as close to them as legally allowed.More lat...

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ELECTION DAY: 8:12 AM EST

Bojangles' doesn't take debit cards :-( And we were so hungry for some biscuits from there too. They need to get with the program 'cuz they're losing business to the Hardees down the street (which is where I did get some biscuits). So breakfast is taken care of...

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ELECTION DAY: 7:18 AM EST

Waiting for Michael to wake up but since he fried his eyeballs on videogames until way late it may take awhile. He's a really good kid from church and his parents said it might be a great experience if he got to help me today. Basically I'm going to plop this "Christopher Knight for Rockingham County Board of Education" t-shirt onto him and turn him into a walking billboard...

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ELECTION DAY: 6:47 AM EST

Forecast is for rain today and a high of around 54.Considering how weather conditions have been known to have a dampering effect on voter turnout, this may be an election where whatever happened during the early voting may be a big deciding factor. When you figure in a race involving sixteen candidates, all the more so. It's altogether possible that there might be ten or less votes' difference between candidates.And the polls have now been open...

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ELECTION DAY: 4:42 AM EST

I spent the past almost-three hours driving 70 miles across the county, getting signs up at the last four precincts. They're all covered now.Remember I said that earlier tonight when it was Michael and me doing this that we were listening to that music from that Christian college group I used to be part of? That's what I listened to all the last little while. I've actually listened to it quite a lot during the course of this campaign. It's really...

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ELECTION DAY: 1:51 AM EST

I wasn't able to start putting signs out at precincts until late. Like, after 6 p.m. last night. I got Reidsville taken care of then went to Greensboro to pick up our friend Michael from church. It was 9 p.m. when we set out to get the rest of the precincts......and, we still haven't gotten them all yet! But there's only four more, and I think I'm going to knock them out in the next little while. We just came back home for a quick respite. ...

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Worst political websites

CNET News.com has found what have to be the WORST political websites on the Internet for this election season. They're pretty bad, like the one for incumbent Rep. Dan Burton pictured above. I'm just glad that my own site didn't make the list ...

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How the GOP pimps gay marriage for votes

There's a TV ad that's running here that ever since it started airing, it's disgusted me. It's for one of the congressional candidates: at one point in the commercial it says that he's "protecting traditional marriage with a constitutional amendment".Here's why it sickens me: the Republicans have had the White House, the House of Representatives and the Senate for almost six years now. They've had more than enough time to put a "conservative agenda"...

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Three hundred thousand

In the past little while this blog received its 300,000th visitor. Remember that just a few weeks ago the meter was around 54,000 after almost three years of being online. Thanks again to everyone who's helped this site reach another milesto...

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What should I do on Election Night?

48 hours from now I'll be doing... something. I'm not sure exactly what though. All day Tuesday I'm going to be visit as many polling places as I can, putting in some last-minute personal appearances before the voters go through the doors to vote. But for the past week or so I've been trying to figure out what to be doing on Election Night as the returns come in. And... I don't know how I should be spending the evening.Here are the options that...

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THE CHARLOTTE OBSERVER is calling me a Jedi

Here's the item in today's edition of The Charlotte Observer:May the votes be with youA Luke Skywalker wanna- be is running for Rockingham County school board.Christopher Knight has produced a "Star Wars"-themed TV ad that includes the Death Star space station blowing up a little red schoolhouse while the voice-over talks about how No Child Left Behind is "targeting and destroying our ability to best teach our children."Then the ad shows Knight,...

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NEWS & OBSERVER article mentions the "lightsaber" commercial

Two days ago it was The New York Times. Then yesterday my hometown paper The Reidsville Review did a story about school board candidates using the Internet... featuring a huge pic on the front page of me from the first commercial wielding my lightsaber. Well, this morning The News & Observer out of Raleigh is the latest to mention my first campaign ad, and I've received word that another pic of me with the lightsaber is on the front page of...

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Video: Three candidates talk about making THE NEW YORK TIMES

Last night about 6:30 on WGSR (the TV station that I work) Charles Roark did a live interview with school board candidates Eric Smith, Richard Moore (via telephone) and myself about our making it into Thursday's edition of The New York Times in regards to our offbeat television commercials. I just got finished uploading it to YouTube. It's a neat little segment with a lot of great interaction between Eric, Richard, Charles and myself. You also...

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A candidate for Congress that we can finally support!

This honest man should be sent to Washington post-haste!Find out more about Josh Jennings on his Myspace page and his page on YouTube.(Special thanks to Marc for the fin...

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Dawn of "The Age of Steel" tonight on DOCTOR WHO

"I thought I was broadcasting to the security services, what do I get: Scooby-Doo and his gang... they've even got the van.""I'm London's most wanted... for parking tickets.""Even better... that's the name of my dog.""Ex-cellent!""The human race, for such an intelligent lot you are all susceptible. Give anyone a chance to take control and you submit. Sometimes I think you...

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Sneak peek at this Sunday's newspaper ad

Here's the ad that will be running this Sunday in The Reidsville Review and the Eden Daily News. It'll be an entire half-page... which was a problem 'cuz I had no idea when they first told me about this special deal for candidates about how I was going to fill up that much space. I spent about two days designing and re-designing, juggling around potential layouts... and...

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