McCain wins Kentucky; Obama takes Vermont

[OKIsItJustMe]

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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[ailsagirl]

1. I guess this was expected

[roguevalley]

10. OHIO JUST CALLED FOR Obama

[hangman86]

2. No surprises so far

Kudos to our Vermont brothers though.

[VanillaC]

4. Anyone having heart palpitations right now?!!!

I am!

[Haole Girl]

3. It's only just begun!!

[Ranting_Wacko]

5. No surprise here....

Vermont was pretty much definitively blue. Ditto Kentucky being red.

[2Design]

6. how can people be so ignorant - this should have been a landslide

an old war monger and dimwith against two intelligent men who are compassionate and kind - this is incredible to me that there are that meny mean and ignorant people still in this country after 8 years of crap

[KillCapitalism]

7. It's Kentucky, what do you expect?

The state is full of white trash yokels that are uneducated.

[2Design]

8. I am not just talking about kentucky - any state -

I can understand a few ignorant people but not a whole state

[KillCapitalism]

9. It's only about 50% of most states.

Unless you're talking about Oklahoma, Kansas, Utah, etc. Then you're talking about 75% of the populace being ignorant.