Nationals
Residents astounded, ecstatic about Obama's election victory
Sunday, November 09, 2008
John Jennings cast the first vote in his Champaign precinct Tuesday, and he surprised himself by how emotional he'd felt.
"I was thinking about my grandparents and how I came up in Mississippi in this rural, painfully impoverished fashion," he said. "My grandparents were illiterate – they couldn't even have read a ballot – and I'm about to vote for the first African-American president.
"It moved me to tears."
Obama's grandmother dies at 86
Monday, November 03, 2008
HONOLULU (AP) – Barack Obama's grandmother, whose personality and bearing shaped much of the life of the Democratic presidential contender, has died, Obama announced Monday, one day before the election. Madelyn Payne Dunham was 86.
Obama announced the news from the campaign trail in Charlotte, N.C. The joint statement with his sister Maya Soetoro-Ng said Dunham died peacefully late Sunday night after a battle with cancer.
Fla. voters wait, wait, wait
Thursday, October 30, 2008
KENDALL, Fla. (AP) – We're underwater on our mortgages. Our 401(k)s are in the tank. We're worried about layoffs, or we've already been laid off. And so there's nothing left to do but vote.
Or, if you're in Florida, wait in a long line to vote and complain to the friends you've just made in the line about how bad the economy is.
AP poll: Obama ahead or tied in 8 key states
Wednesday, October 29, 2008
WASHINGTON (AP) – Barack Obama, gunning for a national landslide, now leads in four states won by President Bush in 2004 and is essentially tied with John McCain in two other Republican red states, according to new AP-GfK battleground polling.
The results help explain why the Democrat is pressing his money and manpower advantages in a slew of traditionally GOP states, hoping not just for a win but a transcendent victory that remakes the nation's political map. McCain is scrambling to defend states where he wouldn't even be campaigning if the race were closer.
Election anxiety: Both sides nervous
Monday, October 27, 2008
CHICAGO (AP) – Victoria St. Gelais is panicky. Tami Brewster-Barnes feels the nerves in the pit of her stomach. Steven Valentine is losing sleep as his mood rises and falls with John McCain's poll numbers.
Voters around the country, whether they support McCain or Barack Obama, say they are experiencing nail-biting, ulcer-inducing anxiety ahead of next week's election and all that's riding on it.
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