Election officials are braced for the biggest election turnout in US history tomorrow as voters finally deliver their verdict on Barack Obama and John McCain to bring to an end a gripping, two-year long campaign.
The excitement generated by Obama's candidacy is expected to see between 130m to 140m Americans vote, easily eclipsing the 121m in 2004.
Although election officials expressed confidence that polling booths across the country will cope, campaigners and political analysts expressed fears that the strain could see long queues and polling stations having to extend their opening hours into the night. The knock-on effect would be results in key states delayed.
With all the major polls putting Obama well ahead, political analysts from both right and left said they expected him to easily reach the 270 of 538 electoral votes needed to win the presidency and many predicted a landslide, taking 350 or more electoral seats.
The Washington-based Pew organisation, one of the most thorough and respected pollsters who accurately predicted the vote in 2004, today put Obama on 52% and McCain on 46%. RealClearPolitics, a website that averages out the main polls, put Obama on 51% to McCain's 44%.
... see more here: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/nov/03/uselections2008-barackobama-johnmccain-election-day
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