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Pittsburgh: Speaking of Stalin... 8:00 a.m. E.T. At 6:40 a.m. are already a dozen people in line on this clear, cool morning at a Greenfield polling place in the strongly Democratic East End. Richard St. John is fourth today. He's been first so many times. "I've never seen anything like this," says the 56-year-old small press employee." I can't remember seeing two or three people other times...
...Eyes on Florida's 25th District, 7:00 a.m. E.T. George W. Bush clobbered John Kerry 56% to 44% in Florida's 25th congressional district in 2004. The 25th probably has more alligators than voters, since it stretches west from the southern suburbs of Miami clear across the Everglades. But if Barack Obama can win there today - and his prospects look surprisingly strong - then Florida, the nation's largest swing state, will most likely be a swamp for John McCain...
...today has a growing non-Cuban Latino population, seemed a microcosm of Amandi's findings today. Mireya Concepcion, 57, a Cuban-born cosmetologist who fled Castro's revolution in 1969, walked out of the polling station at the Salvation Army shelter in Hialeah late this afternoon and made it clear she'd voted for McCain. "I worry that Obama is a communist," she said. "I prefer the more direct way McCain and the Republicans handle Cuba." At the same time, Concepcion conceded that her 31-year-old daughter voted for Obama. "The Cuban community is very divided here today...
...media organizations' First Amendment rights. Judy Schwartua, a Minneapolis training and communications director for elections, said the ruling applied only to the media organizations that sued the state and the precincts listed in the ruling. But Susan Buckley, who represented the media organizations, disagreed. "The ruling is pretty clear. The state cannot prevent exit polling. That's what [the judge] ruled...
...There is a very clear trend from our bellwether precincts that turnout for the Republican precincts are significantly exceeding [Democratic precincts]," said Lew Oliver, chairman of McCain's campaign in Orange County, Fla. "We think we're running 5% or 6% ahead, maybe as much as 10%. The enthusiasm is just enormous...