I've been glued to CNN ever since the polls closed here in Missouri. For the past year I've been working for my school's chapter of Students for Barack Obama, and I spent all of Super Tuesday handing out literature, escorting voters to polling places, and helping to ensure that students were allowed to cast ballots.
At 7:00, I had done all I could do. I went home, turned on the TV, and waited for almost four hours before Wolf Blitzer announced that, with 99% of precincts reporting, Barack Obama had eked out a narrow victory in the state where I've been working. I'm glad that I was watching CNN because if I had been getting my election news from anywhere else, I probably would have gone to sleep hours ago, disappointed.
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