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...Yeah, I'm still going to vote," she said with a sigh as she asked Obama volunteer Kim Irwin to confirm her real polling place. "But it's a big pain." Kam said in 2004 she didn't bother to vote because she knew John Kerry would win Pennsylvania. But this year, she feels quite strongly and wants to make sure Obama wins...
...Like Obama, Hector never really knew his father, a Cuban-born radiologist who died when Hector was a toddler. Raised by his mother, a nurse, Hector says he also feels close to his grandmother, who is in her 80s and still lives in Havana. But the tighter Cuba travel restrictions that President Bush imposed in 2004 means Hector can't visit his abuela as much as he used to - and he's voting for Obama in part because the Illinois Senator has promised to revoke the travel rules. "I've been thinking about that a lot since I heard Obama...
...year-old grandmother, who had been in poor health for a long time. The Illinois Senator learned of her death around 8 a.m. on Monday, but carried on with his campaign schedule without making it public until late in the afternoon. "He was prepared for it, and he knew. I think he was very, very gratified that he had been able to say goodbye," his chief strategist David Axelrod said, in explaining Obama's stoicism. "He feels he has a job to do here, and he's doing it. And that's what she would want...
...every stop. "Tomorrow, you can put an end to the politics that would divide a nation just to win an election." He recalled how he began his quest for the nomination as an underdog in February, 2007, on the steps of the state capitol in Springfield, Illinois. "We knew this was going to be a steep climb," he declared at his final rally in Manassas Park, Va, to a late-night crowd of 90,000. "This happened because of you. We are going to change this country because...
...blame still falls on the government. "Fundamentally it is an issue of government responsibility. In any society you can hope everyone acts with good intentions, but you cannot trust them to always do that," he says. " The greatest irony is that with all the international criticism last year, they knew there were problems. They did some spot checks, but the bureaucratic system didn't pick this up as a significant issue...