By Gao Wenhuan (Eliot)
Chicago, Illinois - On election night, more than 125,000 people stormed into Chicago’s Grant Park to join the rally and witness the historic moment of Barack Obama becoming the first African American
to win the presidency.
At around 10 p.m. local time, when CNN announced the closing of polls in California, a breaking news [...]
November 4, 2008
By Jed Layton
Phoenix, Arizona — Mark Simmons refused to give up hope.
He held red streamers in one hand and a plate of spicy nachos and salsa in the other. Every few minutes he would put the
streamers down and run his hand through his hair. Wrinkles of worry lined his forehead and [...]
November 4, 2008
By Jed Layton
Phoenix, Arizona—One line was 10 feet long. The other line was three hours long. Mitch Quayle was in the long one and not happy about it.
At Laveen Elementary Schoool, Quayle waited
in line with wind, dust, heat and allergies. In between sneezes, Quayle said he did not understand why across the [...]
November 4, 2008
By Jed Layton
Phoenix, Arizona - Dust swirled in the air picking up straw and bits of cotton from a field nearby. Vic Lopez had beads of sweat on his forehead and his cowboy hat had a ring of moisture
around where it touched his head.
Lopez, a convenience store manager from Laveen, Arizona, was [...]
Woodbridge Republicans Say Election Is Not Over
By Zheng Jialiang (Jelen) with Gong Jietong (Yamaha)
Woodbridge, Virginia – About 60 GOP partisans in Woodbridge, VA., gathered Wednesday night to watch the third and final presidential
debate between Republican John McCain and Democrat Barack Obama. In the end, they praised McCain’s aggressive performance and claimed the election was [...]
October 16, 2008
By Jed Layton
Washington, D.C.—Katelyn Polantz had a lot on her mind as she watched the final presidential debate Wednesday night from her news desk. She was doing double duty covering the debate as the
editor-in-chief of her student newspaper and as a blogger for the New York Times.
Polantz, a senior in English literature [...]
October 10, 2008
By Jed Layton
Dayton, Ohio—Jackie Frescon was worried about her family as she walked onto the grass of Fifth Third Baseball Field to hear Barack Obama. But walking out of the stadium after listening to
the Illinois senator she felt relieved.
Frescon, a fifth year senior in computer science at Wright State University, said her [...]
Photos by Hua Qi (Sara)
October 6, 2008
By Jed Layton
Columbus, OHIO—Jose Dixon has a fear of long lines. He doesn’t go to amusement parks, avoids the lunch rush and was dreading a potential five-hour line to vote in Ohio on Nov. 4.
But
in a fast moving line at the Franklin County Memorial Auditorium downtown Columbus, Dixon felt fine waiting 30 [...]
Photo by Ma Jing (Masa)
October 4, 2008
By Jed Layton
Sully, VA—Each door Imani Tate knocked on had a mystery behind it. Would anyone be home? Would the person be receptive? How should she talk to them? What should she
do if they get angry?
Tate, a freshman in international affairs at Georgetown University, [...]
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