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...Fifteen minutes after leaving my room in Claverly, I was at the Charles River Basin, where home regattas are held. Two stops on the red line, a five-minute walk, and there I was. That’s about the same amount of time it takes me to walk across the river to cover women’s hockey, so my first excuse for not attending is shot...
...went wild and wilder in the ballroom of a Hilton hotel in downtown Cleveland as the number 270 got closer and closer. Meanwhile, about 45 excited students packed into a dormitory lounge on the Drake University campus in Iowa to watch election results 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...
...they were convinced by their children to vote Democratic. "They showed me how much he cared about the underprivileged and middle-class," she says. Nearby, Marlise Radix, an Irish immigrant who, with her family, became a citizen to vote for Obama, took photos of chanting voters while children threw red and blue balloons to one another below the cheering crowd. Outside the ballroom, fans called friends on cell phones: "We won Virginia - can you believe it?" a young caller exclaimed, jumping up and down...
Missouri's GOP Lament, 11:30 p.m. E.T. Missouri's foremost Republican statesman, former Senator John Danforth, sounded blue on the phone. "I am blue - I'm a blue guy who should be red." Missouri's vote was still out, but the national tide was clear. He squarely put the blame on the White House. "A very large part of it is that people are sick of Bush, and they just want to get rid of anything and anyone associated with...
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...