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...staff continues to maintain that they are feeling good, pointing to those polls that show the race tightening in key states. But the race remains a hard hand for McCain to win. The public polls show him behind in a bunch of states that George W. Bush won in 2004. But polls don't decide elections. Voters do. And so McCain must now wait. As a practical matter, his campaign is already over. All that's left is to find out how well the American people think he did. -By Michael Scherer, with the McCain campaign...
...democracy?" pipe fitter Danny McIntyre, 37, playfully asked a reporter at a nearby gas station after he voted. He said 12 of the 13 union workers in his shop were voting for McCain - despite AFL-CIO efforts to convince them otherwise. This is about taxes, he said, not race. "The guys we work with - they'd vote for Condoleezza Rice if she were on the ticket. They're pro-America." - By Karen Ball / Kansas City
...Franken has aggressively courted college students here, making dozens of stops to campuses across the state. And in a tight race with Republican incumbent Norm Coleman, his victory may hinge on whether the left-leaning youth electorate show up at the polls in record numbers. "A lot of these kids are freshman, and they were 10 or 11 when George Bush was elected," Franken said. "They just don't know that government is supposed to work. We have a President who can't go to Cleveland without signing a loyalty oath...
...Indeed, voting is a bit like a test you have to wait in line to take. But for Gaddis, who is black and said she is excited about Obama's potential presidency because it shows the country has come a long way in race-relations, it's a test she wants to take. "It would be cool to be a part of history," she said. "Plus, [Obama] has good politics and everything." - By Justin Horwath / Minneapolis...
Considering Race in Missouri, 12:30 p.m. E.T. Along The Paseo, Kansas City's storied urban corridor, a 62-year-old man with a bent back made his way down the sidewalk with the help of a walnut cane. He was carrying a heavy metal folding chair, which had helped him through his two-hour wait to vote at St. James United Methodist Church, one of the city's largest "Freedom Ward" polling places. He wore a kufi of African mudcloth design and a watch chain dangled from his trouser pocket. He had a hike of a mile...