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...year-old voters showing up at the polls, and nearly 90,000 new 18- to 29-year-olds have registered in the state. Young activists literally overnight put placards around the University of Minnesota campus with Obama and get-out-the vote signs. As early as 7 a.m. car horns incessantly honked as the activists waved signs and danced on University Ave., the main thoroughfare on campus...
Eventually, Brown's wife drove up the avenue after completing her morning mission: delivering wheelchairs to precincts where exhausted and disabled voters might need them. Brown loaded his chair into the car and climbed aboard. His journey was, in the end, faster than he had expected. - By Karen Ball / Kansas City...
...going to rest on a single state. McCain has an uphill battle in a bunch of states. Going into the 2000 election, it was tight all over the place." True enough. But fair or not, when things get tight in Florida, Americans instinctively brace for a car wreck and its long-lasting damage...
...Obama acknowledged in his acceptance speech at the convention, his grandmother was the rock on which his character and future were built. "She's the one who taught me about hard work," he said. "She's the one who put off buying a new car or a new dress for herself so that I could have a better life. She poured everything she had into me. And although she can no longer travel, I know that she's watching tonight, and that tonight is her night as well...
...Obama never really knew his biological father, who died in a car crash in Kenya in 1982, and his grandfather died in 1992, three years before his mother. But Obama's grandmother was always there. She took care of Obama when he was 10 and returned to Hawaii to attend school while his mother spent a few years continuing her anthropological research in Indonesia. At the time, his grandparents helped Obama get a scholarship to Punahou, an élite prep school on the island. All three of them lived in a small, two-bedroom apartment on Beretania Street in Honolulu...