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Missouri has gone with the winner in every presidential election but one in over 100 years, and its 11 electoral votes are do-or-die for John McCain. Both sides have lawyers in the state, braced for skirmishes like the one eight years ago, when a federal judge extended voting hours in St. Louis. "Since 2000, election litigation has become as predictable as snow in January," says Thor Hearne, legal counsel to the Missouri GOP and head of President Bush's legal election team in 2004. At least the weather is supposed to be nice - mid-70s and mostly sunny...
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Nevertheless, exit-polling in Florida by organizations like the Miami-based Bendixen & Associates show Obama significantly reversing the lead McCain was supposed to hold with Latino voters in the state. If the early surveys hold up, says Bendixen pollster Fernando Amandi, it will be because non-Cuban Latinos are flexing their political muscle in an unprecedented fashion. Their main concern, he says, was "the economy and their insecurity about their jobs and futures in this country. And they're taking it out on the Republicans more than [on] McCain," Amandi says, noting that Latinos are also casting a voto...
...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," she said...
...McCain Plane: 'We Hung In There...