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Meanwhile, Barbara Gray, 65, a retiree who is also from Gary, said she voted for Obama partly because she hoped he would take interest in improving conditions in urban areas - like Obama's adopted hometown neighborhood, Hyde Park, a leafy Chicago enclave surrounded by some of the city's bleakest communities. She said Obama may be the first President with a firsthand understanding of life in neighborhoods like hers. Gray said she wants the basics: cracked sidewalks repaved, enough funding so that largely black and Latino urban public schools can compete with the predominately white schools in affluent suburbs. "Just...
...election, more than a million registered voters were turned away from the polls because of clerical and other errors, including voters showing up at the wrong precinct. Democrats believe poor people are often disenfranchised because they move more frequently, thus are less likely to know where to vote. - By Barbara Liston / Orlando...
...They're wrapped around the stadium at UCF. Students are voting today," she said. - By Barbara Liston / Orlando...
...paid by convicted lobbyist Jack Abramoff, placed 6th on Capitol Hill newspaper Roll Call's top ten list of most endangered congressional incumbents. And 8th district representative, Republican Ric Keller, seeking a 5th term, is 11-points behind wealthy lawyer Alan Grayson, according to a recent Democratic poll. - By Barbara Liston/Orlando
...West, Barbara •Biden is asked, "How is Senator Obama not being a Marxist if he intends to spread the wealth around" by •Biden responds incredulously - "Are you joking? Is this a joke...