McCain wins Kentucky; Obama takes Vermont

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Source: MS-NBC

McCain wins Kentucky; Obama takes Vermont

Record turnout leaves millions waiting hours to cast their ballots

Republican Sen. John McCain won Kentucky and Democratic Sen. Barack Obama won Vermont as the first results began rolling in from Tuesday's historic presidential election, according to projections by NBC News.

At 7 p.m. ET, polls had also closed in Georgia, South Carolina and Virginia, where it was too early to project results. In Indiana, historically a reliably Republican state, the vote was too close to call, NBC said.

Results were expected to be delayed across the country as record numbers of voters flocked to polling stations, energized by an election in which they would select either the nation’s first black president or its first female vice president.

Obama, a first-term senator from Illinois, led in nearly all public opinion polls over McCain, a veteran senator from Arizona. Both campaigns launched get-out-the-vote efforts that led to long lines at polling stations in a contest that Democrats were also hoping would help them expand their majorities in both houses of Congress.

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