Tattle: Diddy says his vote put Obama in

JUST IN CASE you thought Election Day was about making history, you're wrong.

It was about Diddy.

"I felt like my vote was the vote that put him into office," Diddy said about casting his vote for Barack Obama in Manhattan. "It was down to one vote, and that was going to be my vote. And that may not be true, but that's how much power it felt like I had."

Not that every vote wasn't important, but for the record, Obama won New York by more than one vote.

"I'm not trying to be dramatic, but I just felt like, Martin Luther King, and I felt the whole civil-rights movement, I felt all that energy, and I felt my kids," Diddy added. "It was all there at one time. It was a joyous moment."

Pete Wentz, of Fall Out Boy and Ashlee Simpson, showed up to vote in Beverly Hills with Joe Biden on his mind.

"I would not be standing here actually in reality at all because my parents met working for Biden," he said. "They met on the campaign, so they have this particular affection for Joe. He came to their wedding. If it weren't for Joe Biden, I would not exist as a human being."

Country star Taylor Swift waited in a long line a few days ago to vote with her mother in Tennessee - and was so happy, she recorded the event for one of her video blogs.

"I was really excited because I got to vote," she said. "I early voted, and I was really excited to be able to do that, and it was really something that I was looking forward to all year, ever since I turned 18, so that was really fun."

Swift declined to say for whom she voted.

* It's probably safe to say who Tim

Robbins voted for - assuming he got the chance.

According to TMZ.com, Robbins was turned away from the Manhattan polling place where he's voted for more than a decade, because his name wasn't on the register.

Robbins chose not to fill out a provisional ballot and got into an argument with the poll worker who threatened to call police.

TMZ said Robbins went to the City Board of Elections and got proof that he was good to vote.

* On the other coast (we'd say the

Left Coast, but aren't both coasts Left now?), TMZ.com says California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger voted in Brentwood with wife Maria Shriver and daughter Katherine, a first-timer.

Schwarzenegger voted for John McCain but scored points with his wife's side of the family by voting "No" on Proposition 8, which would have banned gay marriage in the state. Maria didn't tell TMZ whom she voted for, but Katherine showed a strong Kennedy gene by registering as a Democrat.

Is Katy Perry's 'Ur So Gay' next?

Being a member of the Word Police is tough enough when people still throw around the N-word for blacks, the C-word for women and the F-word for homosexuals. (At the Daily News that F-word used to be "fabulous.")

But Nelson Muntz has come under fire, according to TMZ.com, for insulting Milhouse with the term "That's so gay." Muntz and Milhouse are characters on "The Simpsons."

In a statement to TMZ, the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network (GLSEN) said: "Nelson's use of 'that's so gay' in a negative way is not surprising considering that 90 percent of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender youth say they hear the term used this way frequently or often at school. Nelson should visit ThinkB4YouSpeak.com where he can send an apologetic e-card to Milhouse. GLSEN would also welcome Nelson's participation in our next PSA so he can make amends by helping to educate young people about why such language is wrong."

Nelson is an idiot, GLSEN. Like Archie Bunker 35 years ago, his use of derogatory terms reinforces their stupidity. Complaining about it is, well, so gay.

Tattbits

* Coincidence? A Democrat will be in the White House and Jane Fonda is returning to Broadway.

It seems the last time Jane was on Broadway, LBJ was president.

Fonda will star in "33 Variations," a play by Moises Kaufman about a present-day musicologist (Fonda) and her study of Beethoven's fascination with a particular piece of music. Kaufman will also direct. The production will open this winter at a theater and date to be announced, producer David Binder said Monday.

Win a Sony Ericsson phone

Usher is performing his "One Night Stand: Ladies Only" tour at the Electric Factory (7th and Willow streets) tonight at 8:30, and tour sponsor Sony Ericsson would like to give away five Sony Ericsson W350's - the same Sony Ericsson phone Usher uses in his "Love in this Club" music video!

To enter (only one entry per person), send an e-mail to dinnercon test@phillynews.com with your name, address and phone number. In the subject line, write: I want a Sony Ericsson Usher W350 Phone!

Today at noon we'll pick five winners at random. After your info is confirmed, your names will be printed in a future Tattle column so all your friends will know how you got a cool, new phone.

Tickets for Usher cost $52 and are available at 215-336-2000 and livenation.com.

(If you win, you can't use your phone while driving or when you sit near Tattle at the movies.) *

Daily News wire services contributed to this report.

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