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and so it begins...
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Presidential Electoral:
Bush: Electoral College: 249
Kerry: Electoral College: 242
538 electoral votes at stake.
270 electoral votes needed to win.
Observers are predicting a record voter turnout as precinct officials from Florida and North Carolina to West Virginia and Michigan said they encountered long lines at their respective stations.
"We even had people waiting in line before we opened at 6:30 a.m.," Wayne County Clerk Robert Pasley in Wayne, W.Va, told the Associated Press. "In some places, there was more than a dozen people waiting, and that's heavy."
Heavy voter turnout reported at U.S. polls
Long queues have been reported across the United States as voters cast their ballots in one of the tightest presidential elections in memory. ...Analysts predict the highest turnout for 40 years... US votes in election cliffhanger