You are witnessing history -- perhaps the first live blog ever from Maple Donuts on East Market Street.

The waitress, Jessica, doesn't think it's ever happened before. She said a few customers were talking about the election. I asked her if they were saying anything interesting.

"Nope," she said.

Do they ever say anything interesting?

"Not really," she said.

Dale Paules, a 67-year-old retiree from Verizon, was taking a break from building a playhouse for his grandkids, having a doughnut and a cup of coffee. A registered Democrat, he hadn't voted yet, but was planning to.

"I'm going to vote for Obama," he said. "Things need to change in this country."

He's always voted for Democrats -- except in the '80s when he voted for Reagan.

He doesn't have anything against Hillary Clinton. In fact, he said, he thought her husband did a lot of good as president. And he doesn't have anything against John McCain.

"I like John McCain, but he's going to be the same as we have now," he said. "We don't need that."

He thinks Obama has what it takes to beat McCain. The country, he said, wants a change.

"We have to change things from what's happened the last eight years," he said. "That guy's going to go down as the worst president in the history of this country. How he got in there for eight years is beyond me."