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...even as she stood in line, nibbling from a cup of fragrant noodles, she was "playing the pieces in my mind" about who to vote for. She did consider not voting at all when she first saw the endless line, she said, but she realized "this is going to be a historic election -I'm just happy to be a part...
...campaign specifically excluded from its monitoring precincts the African-American neighborhoods expected to vote overwhelmingly for Obama. In gauging voting activity, Oliver said, the campaign factored in each precinct's early voting and absentee balloting. The campaign has no exit polling data to show who the voters in those precincts are actually voting...
...Anecdotally, McGinnis said, students at the nearly 50,000-student University of Central Florida are getting in line and staying in line even if it takes hours to vote. The Obama camp is hoping for strong support from young and first-time voters...
...Basurto, who hails from Guayaquil, Ecuador, don't feel so much like the minority they were when he arrived in this country a decade ago. Basurto, in fact, has been feeling so emboldened of late that he went ahead and got his U.S. citizenship this year - and registered to vote the same...
...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...