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...nation, Danforth warned, is in for a sharp left turn...
...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 him a total of 102 electoral votes thus far. McCain, for his part, has been...
...points among likely voters. John Kerry won the state by 144,000 votes in 2004. Polls show Obama strong in all of the same places Kerry was strong - and he has something like 500,000 newly registered Democrats behind him. Even if only a fraction of those new Democrats turn out on Tuesday, it's hard to see how McCain can pick up enough votes to offset all those extra votes. A McCain victory at this point, Madonna said, "would go against everything we know about the state." - By Sean Scully / Philadelphia...
...Isolated incidents of touchscreen-machine problems are also coming in. Again, the ACLU says, boards of elections are responding quickly to fix problems so they don't turn into nightmares. - By Charu Gupta / Cleveland...
...unseasonably warm weather brought tourists and New Yorkers out in droves to Rockefeller Center's "Election Plaza," an enchanting display of democracy on ice - literally. NBC has temporarily transformed the iconic Rockefeller skating rink into a frozen map of the U.S.; the states will turn red or blue this evening as the election results are announced. In front of the art deco landmark, a gigantic TV screens display footage of the past 20 months of the campaign as The Today Show ticker streams news updates across the street. Tourists mill about in campaign buttons and patriotic outfits, posing for photos...