It was quite a special election eve episode last night — 12 guests, one correspondent and two hosts. And all with one thing on our minds: today’s election.

We started out the night with a package I produced on the eight states that will consider constitutional amendments banning marriage and in some cases even civil unions and domestic partnerships for same-sex couples.

After that we zeroed in on four states — Connecticut, New Jersey, Ohio and Pennsylvania — that are key races to control of Congress and GLBT issues.

Looking at Pennsylvania, Sultan Shakir — an HRC regional field director — talked to us from the ground in Philadelphia about Bob Casey’s bid to unseat anti-gay Sen. Rick Santorum. Then Tom Ferrick, political columnist for The Philadelphia Inquirer, joined us via phone to give his perspective.

We turned to New Jersey and Steve DeMicco, campaign manager for Sen. Bob Menendez, joined us. Following up we talked to Tom Moran, a reporter at The Newark Star Ledger with a view from the ground. Listen to the segment

Ohio is obviously a critical state this year and we were privileged to talk to Rep. Sherrod Brown, who’s hoping to unseat Republican Sen. Mike DeWine. Bringing the journalistic perspective was Jonathan Riskind of The Columbus Dispatch.

Finally, in Connecticut, three House Republicans are in danger, and Rep. Chris Shays’ campaign manager, Michael Sohn, joined us. Greg Hladky of The New Haven Register talked about the Republicans’ chances for survival.

After spending a little time in the weeds, we thought it was important to pull back and take a broad look at the electoral landscape. First we played a package I did on the more outrageous and controversial advertisements this cycle. Listen to the package.

Then Juan Williams of NPR and Fox News Channel joined Mary and Joe to count seats and help make sense of the tight races. Listen to parts one and two of this insightful conversation.

We closed on a light note with columnist and author Dan Savage who gave his perspective on Sen. Rick Santorum — the GLBT community’s No. 1 enemy.

By the way — if you haven’t voted yet, shut down you computer and get to your polling place right now!