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...carrying the canvassers home heard the news that Shaheen was projected to win New Hampshire, the passengers erupted in screams. “We’re thrilled,” Zafran said over the cries of celebration. “It’s great to have another Democrat in the Senate...
Palm Beach County's Jewish population, one of the most heavily-concentrated in the country, was split earlier this summer when Democratic Sen. Hillary Clinton stepped aside as presidential nominee. But the community seems to be coming together for Barack Obama. More than 100 people stood in line by 7 a.m. Tuesday outside Temple Shaarei Shalom in Boynton Beach. Michelle Sachnin, 41, a Jewish voter from Boynton Beach, admitted she was a Hillary supporter, but had no doubts where she would place her support come today. "Obama. I've always been a Democrat. And I believe in everything he stands...
Earlier, when states that Obama won were called out, folks in the condos along Michigan Avenue screamed. And of course, so did people waiting on Michigan Avenue. There was even a McCain supporter in the crowd, Jack Nagle. His daughter is a Democrat and hard-core Obama supporter. "It makes dinner interesting," he says. "But in Chicago, you've just got to take your licks and keep moving. Obama's going to be President, and for that, all I can say is congrats...
...major networks have now called Ohio, Iowa and New Mexico for Obama, along with upper Midwest blue states like Michigan, Wisconsin and Minnesota, and trends in Florida are looking pretty good too. The Democrat now has 206 electoral votes in his column, and with West Coast states California, Oregon, Washington and Hawaii almost certainly going his way later tonight, he is well on his way to becoming the next President of the United States...
...depends on the outcome of the race in Iowa's fourth district (representing northern Iowa farm towns as well as the college town of Ames and fast-growing Des Moines suburbs), where the well-funded, seven-term Republican incumbent Tom Latham is facing a stiffer-than-usual challenge from Democrat Becky Greenwald, a political newcomer who has earned national attention and is hoping to ride a Democratic wave to victory if Obama wins. Iowa is among only four states that have never sent a woman to Congress (of those four, which include Vermont and Delaware, Iowa and Mississippi have also...