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...William P. Purcell III was raised in Wallingford, Pa., a suburb of Philadelphia. His mother, a native of Louisiana, moved to Philadelphia after getting a job as a speech teacher and women’s debate team coach at Temple University. His father, who was also raised in Wallingford, was a food broker who sold everything from tuna fish to frozen waffles to dog food...
...morning, Stephanie Mueller, state communications director for the Obama campaign, called TIME to express frustration with the Arapahoe County clerk, who was refusing to use paper ballots to alleviate long lines for electronic voting. Mueller said concerns centered particularly in Aurora, an eastern suburb of Denver that lies within Arapahoe County, where blacks comprise 13.4% of the population, compared with a statewide black population of 4.1%. - By Rita Healy / Denver...
...Missouri Senator Claire McCaskill, co-chair of the Obama campaign, was reached by phone on her way to cast her vote in Kirkwood, a St. Louis suburb. She said she had been on the phone all morning collecting reports of huge turnout in Democratic and Republican precincts alike. Reports of the heaviest voting, she said, came from urban areas, and "that's great news...
...Suburb Belt Around Columbus For decades, Ohio's sprawling capital city preferred milquetoast Republicans like George Bush Sr. As conservatives move into the exurbs, though, the city swung toward milquetoast Democrats like John Kerry. Its diversified, white-collar economy is doing better than the rest of the state, which means other issues including health care and the Iraq war are also on voters' minds...
...they now favor McCain by a 14-point margin, 56% to 42%. Just a week earlier, Obama was 10 points behind with this group. Joe Wurzelbacher (a.k.a. Joe the Plumber), who has come to represent something of a mascot or rallying cry for the McCain campaign, hails from a suburb of Toledo, Ohio...