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Last night, President-Elect Barack Obama made a very stirring victory speech that captured the magnanimity of the moment and embraced the challenges that await his administration:

Incredible speech on an unbelievable night.

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For those of you who missed last night’s concession speech by Senator John McCain, you missed something special.

I love the way our system works. We divide over the issues then unite behind the winner. Good luck Senator and may you still have a hand in the promise of change.

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Congratulations to Barack Obama, the 44th President of the United States and the first African-American to hold the title, Leader of the Free World.

This is a day of pride for all Americans. We can finally look past race and see the measure of the person running for office.

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Check out these headlines and claims of possible election irregularities or general Election Day weirdness.

• McCain Sues Over Military Ballots – The McCain suit, meanwhile, seeks an injunction to extend the date by which federal write-in absentee ballots must be received to be counted. The current deadline is today, but the suit seeks to have the date changed to Nov. 14. “Because many counties in Virginia failed to mail absentee ballots in time to our men and women in uniform stationed overseas, service members are being disenfranchised because they are unable to return their ballots before the November 4 deadline,” campaign spokeswoman Gail Gitcho said in a written statement about the suit, which is scheduled to be heard in Williams’ courtroom at 1:30 p.m. today.
• GOP Election Board Members Tossed Out of Polling Stations – GOP Election Board members have been tossed out of polling stations in at least half a dozen polling stations in Philadelphia because of their party status. A Pennsylvania judge previously ruled that court-appointed poll watchers could be NOT removed from their boards by an on-site election judge, but that is exactly what is happening, according to sources on the ground.
• Toledo Police Brace for Possible Civil Unrest – In an internal memo obtained exclusively by NBC 24 News, officers are ordered to “Have their riot equipment with them Tuesday and Wednesday”. Police chief Mike Navarre confirms, officers will have gear similar to the equipment they used during the 2005 race riots. “They have been asked to have their helmets and their gas masks available tomorrow and Wednesday.”, Navarre says, “That’s the equipment they would not normally carry with them on a normal day”.
• Voter surveys litter Interstate 4 roadside – TAMPA — The intersection known for years as “malfunction junction” has another notch on its belt. Highway workers discovered hundreds of papers with voter information early Monday on the shoulder of the westbound Interstate 4 ramp just before the entrance to southbound Interstate 275 in Tampa.

What a mess.

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Dixville Notch has the distinction of recording the first voting returns in the country:

Voting polls weren’t even open when Dixville Notch and Hart’s Location announced their results. For 60 years, the two small villages in New Hampshire have been observing a tradition of having the first Election Day ballots.

The Dixville Notch results are in:

Dixville Notch, NH (AHN) – The town of Dixville Notch, New Hampshire, with a population of around 75 people and only 21 registered voters, has picked Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) to be the next president of the United States. Obama defeated Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) by a margin of 15 votes to 6.

Looks like good news for Obama but, does this spell doom for McCain?

In a word: No. There’s no historical relationship between the performances of the two major-party candidates In Dixville Notch and their performances in the rest of New Hampshire — never mind the rest of the country

Looks like we are going to have to turn to the networks tonight and see what the rest of the country has to say about the candidates.

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