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...roll in on CNN, nibbling on red, white and blue food (red salsa, graham crackers with white frosting and blue - O.K., technically purple - grapes) and drank red and blue Hawaiian punch. "It's just so inspiring to have this as your first election. It's exciting and humbling," says Hope Ashley, 19, who voted early in her bellwether home state of Missouri...
...year Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel Uncle Tom's Cabin was published. "For us to come together in 2008 and lead other churches to city hall to vote after a Sunday worship service was just incredible to witness," he says. "We felt the mood of expectancy, hope and fulfillment of our God-given destiny to witness an African American on the verge of being elected President of this nation that was founded on racist public policies. We are hopeful that through the grace of God and through this overwhelming turnout of voters that Mr. Obama will get the mandate...
...that the state hasn't voted for a Republican president since Richard Nixon in 1972. Golnik argued that a Hillary Clinton rally indicated Democrats were worried about their chances of taking the state. Clinton made two stops in Duluth, a northern city near the Iron Range where Republicans hope McCain can steal union votes from Democrats...
Although there does seem to have been closure in the polls, McCain's main hope in Pennsylvania appears to be "divine intervention," according to G. Terry Madonna, director of the well-regarded and non-partisan Franklin & Marshall Poll, the latest of which shows Obama up by 12 points among likely voters. John Kerry won the state by 144,000 votes in 2004. Polls show Obama strong in all of the same places Kerry was strong - and he has something like 500,000 newly registered Democrats behind him. Even if only a fraction of those new Democrats turn out on Tuesday...
...Irwin, a library employee from Brooklyn, N.Y., who came to Pennsylvania to work for Obama, said the high turnout was giving her great hope. She had worked all over the city in recent weeks and found tremendous and increasing enthusiasm for Obama, even in the more McCain-friendly precincts in northeast and south Philadelphia. Turnout will help Obama, she said, gesturing to the line. "You want the people to vote...