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I am half way around the world in Thailand and voted absentee.I went online to get the form,mailed it into NY.I was then sent the ballot and mailed it back.It was painless and fun.Why doesn't everybody do it?

I voted for Sen.Obama and I love watching CNN. I just have good taste. I think CNN has been objective throughout this race, don't be mad at them because they didn't co-sign with the negative and untrue attacks against Sen. Obama–which were released daily by the GOP and the McCain camp.

Can you blame him and his team for his over-protection? With all of the threats that some radical rightists have thrown out there, anyone in their right mind would be careful. As for G. W. Bush, that guy hasn't made an appearance or announcement on his screwball politics in over a year. Just sit back, W, watch the country crumble, and collect your dividends. In my honest opinion, I wonder why some of these same rightists haven't threatened him. He's the cause of many of their distrust.

voter fraud in Ohio , just found few minutes again. Polls show here it is going McCains way because of the coal minnining statement that Obama issued. always voted for a dem for President but today I proudly voted for President John McCain a true american hero not a fake like obama

explain how obama is the dems bush? Has any thought been even given to this? No, the statement is thoughtless like all statements about Obama that are negative.

allen ky what destruction lyes ahead if obama wins go mccain

No! CNN. You are the Culprit. But then? How could CNN be at Fault...
You turned out to the most Biased Media I ever came across, since Diana was Murdered in France bye The Royalists Of Britain, just so the Idiot Charlie could get his Kids back, and extend the Aristrocracy in Britain... King Makers??? No just Time Wasters..

MEMO TO ZEPPO
ARE YOUR REMARKS APPROVED BY GROUCHO , CHICO AND HARPO ?

GOD BLESS BARACK OBAMA AND JOE BIDEN AND THEIR FAMILIES, WHEN THIS ELECTION IS OVER WE WILL HAVE A NEW BEGINNING, GOD BLESS AMERICA, VOTE OBAMA-BIDEN

Before the Obama-jockies jump on this: When is CNN going to report on the fact that Sarah Palin was YESTERDAY cleared of ethical violations by an independent board in ALaska?

CNN, you were quick with "breaking news" when the democratic led state senate report claimed she violated ethics, why so quiet now? The report came out yesterday

I cant wait until Obama wins

you guys have been praising him since the beginning why didn"t you also tell the negative things

Well, at this point, with all of the radical, racist, vicious comments that have come out of Palin and her supporters' mouths lately, I would keep all nonessential personnel from my protectee. As a person with many years providing this type of protection, I wouldn't let Mother Theresa near Sen. Obama right now. This does not mean he is secretive or mysterious, just that there exists a very real, if unidentifiable, threat against him and his family. Those two skinheads a few weeks ago aren't the only idiots who will have gotten themselves are riled up by Palin; Hank, Jr.; the e-mail rumors; Rush; Sean Hannity, etc.

CNN has been the mouth piece of @bama for the last year and now it's feeling a bit guilty? Awe shucks! This is news ? Spare me!

How close can the media get to the candidates, or any highly elected goovernment official? First, no one could access Palin ... now it's Obama. I think there's a pattern here ...

OBAMA/BIDEN 2008

!!!!go Obama go i love what you stand for never before have they seen a black man with such brilliance it has baffled them!!!! i wonder what it would have been like if obama was white or better yet if we could not see color how would this election go ?

Noticed the new thing now is that Obama is being compared to a new Democratic Bush. This is so funny. This man hasnt even been elected President yet and now we have to hear he is the new Bush? It sounds bizarre knowing that there are real bitter people out there that actually voted for Bush(again) but now they are looking at him as a mistake. Bush had 8 years to fix this but did he? No he didnt. He messed it up big time. Remember some of you voted for that. Now tell me what McCain would do for this country. I still am wondering...oh wait...nope false alarm still wondering.

I don't believe you are reading this in the proper context Paris.... If we are lucky Palin will ride off into the sunset and take her hate filled rhetoric with her.

McCain, well, had he used better judgement – this lifelong republican would not have chosen Obama

My 73 year old Grandma called to visit about the election...she is so excited to see BAHAMA be elected that she said she is not going to bed at 7pm...she and my disabled uncle went to the polling place to vote at 7am this morning...I just didn't have the heart to tell her it was OBAMA...her excitement, as well as my 8 year old waking up this morning and asking if OBAMA was our new president YET has just melted my heart....

MEMO TO MARC PDX
SIR THERE CAN NEVER BE ANYONE AS BAD AS GEORGE W BUSH, HE OWNS THAT DISTINCTION HIMSELF.
THE WORST PRESIDENT IN THE HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES.
BTW WHERE HAS THE GREAT DECIDER BEEN THESE DAYS???
IS HE IN AN " UNDISCLOSED LOCATION"?

Journalists haven't done any digging on Obama the whole campaign, and we're supposed to what? Feel sorry for you? Come on now. What a joke. You should be ashamed to call yourselves journalists after this joke of an election year. Pathetic, truly pathetic.

i live in a heavy republican area and voted many times this is the very frist time i actually seen a demorcate sign , just a sign of my times

Zeppo, no one believes your crap. Do yourself a favor, sit down and be quiet! Anyone saying that Obama is the left's Bush are pathetic disaffected people who make things up to do anything to make Obama look bad. Hey I know how you feel, 8 years ago I felt bad, kicked in the teeth. Obama and Bush are polar opposites and worlds apart so this last minute comparison is but one in a string of falsehoods and lies that you pitiful people keep spewing out when nobody is listening to you! In other words, shut up!

God help us if Obama wins.

You are news reporters. You are not news yourselves. Similarly, this little (very little) story is not news.

I can't believe CNN posted this self-absorbed, narcissistic fluff.

As the article stated...it's the Secret Service dictating what goes on. Senator Obama could very well be the President Elect after tonight and his protection is far more important than what reporters want at this moment. I'm sure they would be welcome to leave the hotel and go to Grant Park and join with the rest of the revelers! Go have a beer guys and gals and enjoy the night regardless of how the election goes.

I am also sure Senator McCain is getting the same protection. As he should.

The Repubs talk about the Obama 'koolaid' when in fact they have all had too much of the raw sewage of fear and doom that has been rained upon them...gullible, but Americans nonetheless. I look forward to welcoming them back to a bright future with President Obama. Peace.

Marc PDX: how naive of you.

Hey alll you cry baby repubs, as long as you are earning under 250K you should be kissing our butts for making you more money in the future. If I had my druthers I would go out and slap every person that voted for McCain w/ a order that does not give them the same tax rights as that the rest of America is going to get and let them cry about that.

CONGRATS ON YOUR WIN PRESIDENT OBAMA!

I find it funny, these people saying that Obama is the Dems "George Bush". How you can even compare the two is beyond me. Listening to the two men speak is like nite and day. Regardless of your political leanings, you have to say that Obama is an INFINITELY better speaker. Obama is a profoundly more educated man that George W. Bush ever could have hoped to be. Let us not forget, Bush was too busy snorting illegal drugs and having cases of beer with his "good ole boys" in high school and college.

IN 1956, I WAS 7 YEARS OLD WHEN MOM AND I GOT ON A BUS TO GO DOWNTOWN IN SPRINGFIELD, ILLINOIS. ON THE NEXT STOP, AN AFRICAN AMERICAN WOMAN IN A MAID'S OUTFIT AND A YOUNG GIRL, OSTENSIBLY HER DAUGHTER, GOT ON THE BUS AND SAT IN THE BACK. NEVER HAVING SEEN AN AFRICAN AMERICAN PERSON BEFORE, I KEPT STARING UNTIL MY MOTHER REMINDED ME THAT STARING WAS IMPOLITE, AT WHICH TIME I ASKED WHY THEY WERE BLACK AND NOT WHITE LIKE EVERYONE ELSE I KNEW. MY WISE AND LOVING MOTHER SAID, "CAROL, GOD MADE PEOPLE LIKE FLOWERS. THEY COME IN ALL DIFFERENT COLORS." I HAVE OBVIOUSLY REMEMBERED THAT ALL MY LIFE, AND CAN NOT EXPRESS HOW PROUD I AM OF BARACK OBAMA WHO IS A LAWYER LIKE ME, WHO COMES FROM MY HOME STATE, WHO IS WISE AND HONEST, AND WHO CAN AND PROBABLY WILL LEAD MY COUNTRY OUT OF THIS STATE OF CONFUSION AND BACK INTO MANIFEST DESTINY. THANK GOD FOR PEOPLE AND FLOWERS OF ALL COLORS AND SHAPES AND WALKS OF LIFE.

What a wonderful, informative story...

Obama has surrounded himself with individuals like Ayers, and the Rev. Jeremiah – Why don't you report on those people that are "close to him?"

I imagine the McCain troupe is running into a similar wall of warm bodies. Could the Obama sycophants please stop drooling on the floor?

Of course the Obamas have to be planning for a possible move to Washington; that's only common sense. That being said, somebody should have known how this would sound, and kept his mouth shut.

I did not think election returns could be shown until the polls were closed in each state. In California we have several items which will be effected tremendously if there is low turn out influenced by an Obama landslide in other states

President Obama: Get used to it...

Hey I am a fat lady and I can't wait to sing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Boy, you Republicans sure are sore losers!

Whatever happens in this election I hope that the partisanship bickering stops. I am a lifelong (moderate) Republican, but I had to hold my nose when I voted this year along with many others I know. Politics has always interested me, but I find myself disgusted by both parties. Our country is suffering, both candidate's talk about spending being out of control, yet both spends millions upon millions on propaganda and then ask for more money. How many people's lives could they have changed if that money had gone to support the social services that the Democrats advocate? Idealist I know, but one could dream. If a candidate came along that said – instead of contributing to my campaign give to _____ charity. Heck, Obama could have done that because the media did all his campaigning for him!

The more Secret Service the better and less newspeople is okay.

McCain lowered himself into the sewer with Palin.

He is not an honorable man. He is a weakling that now thinks negative is what we need.

No more lies. NO MORE

Obama/Biden '08

it is the same old rethugs terrorist plots it's about time the do some hard time.

I can't wait to wake up on November 5 and know the Obama daughters will be that much closer to choosing a puppy, and Sarah Palin will be boarding a plane back to Alaska.
Go Obama/Biden. Bring it home for us.
A load of thanks to the thousands of Obama volunteers across the nation. Good work!

Did they mean they are so close to him as supporters?? That is not a surprise. These guys sound like they are kissing butt for a job in the "Administration". Typical softball coverage CNN has given Barack Hussein Obama the entire election cycle.

Waaaaaaahhhhhhhhhh!

Come on CNN, you guys decided months ago that Obama should be president , and then made it happen. Stop whining.

If he is the new George Bush, I hope he does the opposite of everything President Bush did.

Better get used to it. Obama has no use for you "reporters" now that you've outlived your election-tanking usefulness. If he wins, I hope you enjoy the next 4 years of scripted Dear Leader broadcasts you will be expected to regurgitate like state mouthpieces. You've well and truly earned it.

Poor Marc... did u throw your vote in the garbage lol.. if u voted for McSame...well thats where it is. In the dumpster

Leave the man alone. He just lost his grandmother, and he deserves a break on this, of all days. Don't be paparazzi with pens.

Why stop now CNN, you have always been close to Obama.

That is exactly what we need, a president that remains calm and collected no matter how much pressure is on him. Tomorrow will begin a new day for our country as will January 20, 2009.

Obama/Biden 08

Just like CNN, fall all over Obama. What a crock. MSDNC, CNNOBAMA. No wonder Fox kicks butt in ratings.

Ah, yes, they also serve who only stand and wait.

Looks like you journalists are getting a taste of where we will all be if Obama wins. God bless you. Hope you get out of the hole soon.

I am hearing roomers of networks calling the race early. I think everyone has waited this long and just need to chill the hell out!!!! Let the process work the way that it should.

I do not want another 2000 election year. Went to bed with one president being named and woke up with the Idiot being placed in the White House. Let's not go through this again Americans!!!!

GOD BLESS and PROTECT Senator Obama...

reading this article was a waste of my valuable time.

Obama needs to have very tight security. I am sure there are crazy mentally imbalanced people out there. Look at those two thugs caught last week. Also, this could end up being bigger than Camelot!
Thanks to all who blogged here. Especially the ones who made me laugh!

We all worry about Senator Obama's safety. At age 67 I have seen too many situations that jeopardized our country's welfare. I won't mention what they were, you all know.

Pray for our leaders' health and safety, whoever might win.

Living outside of the USA and closely following this election campaign, as an outside and perhaps an objective observer, it is increasingly becoming clear that the republican party and its leaders have a very low estimation of the intelligence of the American people.

If their campaign rhetoric, their principal agenda and purpose for getting elected into office is solely based on bashing, discrediting, dehumanizing their political opponents rather than putting forward realistic and practical plans to salvage that great nation from it's own self-inflicted and self-induced doldrums; then it will be a sad and a sorry day for Americas and perhaps the rest of the world when the republicans continue in office.

As for the PUMA founder, there is no comparison between Mr. Obama and Mr. George Bush. The effects of Mr. Bush's term in office, the total of his being and presence in this world has been a dark and very sad time for humanity indeed. Ghenghis Khan, Atilla the Hunt, Hamurabi, Galigula, Idi Amin Dada, Mobutu of Zaire, Biya of Cameroon, Milozevic of former Yugoslavia, all put together will never have been able to equal and match the carnage and damage which this monster of a man has committed against humanity and the American people.

Good ..... protect Obama .... I prayed for this day and now that it is almost here I fear for Obama as I think domestic terrorist may come out of the closet... heck the hate Palin and McCain insighted make me fear for Obama but I trust that our secret service will keep him safe..... and give those babies their dog as it will happen and I hope they finish school in Chicago.... God Bless America!

Hey Barack,
I look forward to hearing your "victory speech" here at Grant Park (Chicago), Ohhh let's say in about 4 hours from now.

its time we had a YORKIE in the White House.

Wolf Blitzer just talked about "robocalls" by McCain/Palin in Florida aimed at Cubans saying that Reuters had just reported that Castro had just endorsed Obama. The robocall was played with sub-titles, but nobody addressed whether there was any truth to it. Why not?

God bless and protect President Barack Obama!!!!!

Obama really is the left's Bush. he is secretive, he is inexperienced and he ran a Faith Based campaign.

A few more hours and it's party time!!

Go Barack Go!

And in other news... check out how a bunch of crooks try to win elections.........

Virginia state police said they will not bring charges against a man who printed up a bogus flier that instructed Obama supporters to go to the polls Wednesday instead of Tuesday. Nancy Rodriguez, secretary of the State Board of Elections, called the flier "a joke that got out of control."

Looks like Rodriguez oughta do some explaining too. That can't be legal.... there has to be something to charge this rat with... and you KNOW they would if the shoe were on the other foot and it was a Democrat doing that

Wow CNN finally admitting “We may be the closest journalists to Sen. Barack Obama”.

We knew that all along. You just didn’t give us enough credit CNN.

That is why you haven’t been objective on your reporting stupid.

A good looking group, indeed! Befitting of the man who will be our next President! Protect him well, guys! Can't wait to hear your victory speech, Barack!
OBAMA/BIDEN '08 & '12 YES WE CAN!!!!!

Can't blame him.

CNN has pushed McCain/Palin down our throats. CNN has played FOR FREE every negative ad of the lying duo.

Deal with it, CNN.

Obama/Biden '08

The Dems elect their own George Bush ("who knew? nothing on his resume predicted this!")...

Umm, the Emporer is naked, people... I'm not raining on your parade. Just predicting the weather. The storm will come either way.

am I supposed to feel sorry for you or is this just one of those articles that try to show you are "real people"? Either way a waste of space

Hey, you get to have it that way when you are President of the United States.