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Missouri: The Long Ballot, 8:00 a.m. E.T. A record-setting 76% of voters, or 3.2 million people, are expected today at the polls in Missouri, which has no early voting. Secretary of State Robin Carnahan is warning of long lines and urging people to "come ready to wait it out." Voters casting absentee ballots - the demand has been nearly twice the normal level this year - have had to wait two hours or more in Kansas City and St. Louis. Adding to fears of chaos is the sheer length of the ballot. For instance, in St. Louis County...
...time midnight came around in Kenya on Nov. 4, all of it was gone and the Obamas of Kogelo in the Rift Valley were asleep. To be sure, a rainstorm had washed out much of the clan's festivities. But clearly no one was staying up to wait for the U.S. networks to declare a winner in that presidential race far away - be it their favorite relative or not. (See pictures of Barack Obama's family tree.) They will wait for daybreak - or a long-distance call - for that news. - By Alex Perry / Kogelo...
...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...
...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...
...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 and a half still ahead of him. "People walk further...