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More from my Reinventing the News students:
That will be it for tonight, as I need to file with the Guardian soon. Sooner than I can manage, probably.
Then Obama would be headed for a huge victory. Actually, he wouldn’t, as President Kerry would be standing for re-election. So let’s wait and see.
My Reinventing the News students are hitting the polls today. Some early returns:
I’ll try to link to more student posts as I find them.
WBUR Radio has a Twitter feed going to which anyone with a Twitter account can contribute. The idea is to tell folks what your voting experience was like today. Just stick a #wburvote into whatever you write.
For a Flickr slideshow, click here or on photoMrs. Media Nation and I timed our voting perfectly. I’m working at home today, so we walked to Danvers High School a little after 10 a.m. With the morning rush over and the evening a long way off, we figured we wouldn’t have to wait too long.
Although there were longish lines of cars heading up and down Cabot Road, and though the parking lot was nearly full, we were right — once we were inside the gym, we breezed right through.
A poll worker told me that more than 500 people had voted in our precinct, way more than the typical number. I would imagine the explosion will come after work.
I also posted a few photos to the Polling Place Photo Project. Please have a look.