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Obama Wins Pennsylvania, but No Red States Yet, 8:45 p.m. E.T. CNN has now joined other networks like NBC and ABC in projecting that Barack Obama will handily win the Keystone State's 21 electoral votes. The McCain campaign had invested lots of time and resources in the past couple of weeks in trying to turn the blue state red, but the huge Democratic turnout in the Philadelphia area proved too much to overcome. Obama has also, according to CNN, won his home state of Illinois, plus Vermont, New Hampshire, Maine, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island and New Jersey, giving...
...Palm Beach County GOP chairman Sid Dinerstein, who is Jewish, said it was the 65-year-old, more affluent Jews whom he believed would move toward McCain, particularly "a lot who haven't voted Republican before." "When you are the candidate of [Louis] Farrakhan...the Jews with an open mind get very, very nervous," Dinerstein said. The Clintons, he said, would never have made a comment like Obama's that Palestinians are among the world's most oppressed people, then gone after the Jewish vote. Dinerstein's optimistic prediction: Some 30% of Jewish voters across the country will vote...
...early as possible and avoid the rush," Smalley said. Maria Wright, 55, is a grandmother used to voting early on Election Day. She isn't too excited about this year's choices for president. "I don't like either of them," she says and has resorted to picking John McCain. "He's just the lesser of two evils." - By Charu Gupta / Cleveland...
Minnesota: Where Comedy Isn't Pretty, 8:30 a.m. E.T. Ben Golnik, the McCain campaign's regional manager, asserts McCain is viable here, despite polls that have showed Obama in double digit leads and 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...
...smoke. "We can't touch anything until 7," she shouts. "We're all reader for yinz. There won't be any problems." "Yinz" is Pittsburgh slang for "you." University of Pittsburgh student Heather Derby, 27, once an Army sergeant in Iraq , is first in line. She's a Republican. "McCain's a good candidate and he does a lot for the military and he might be the best candidate for what's going on in Iraq ," she says, "but for other things I like Obama better." By the time the doors open, there are 29 people behind her. - By Marty...