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Trayvon Lynn, 13, tried to get a good shot with his camera phone as Democratic Presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama spoke at a campaign rally at t...

Democratic Presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama waited behind a curtain backstage moments before the start of a campaign rally at the Richmond Col...

*FILE PHOTO*(NYT6) NEW YORK -- Nov. 5, 2008 -- OBIT-CHRICHTON -- Author Michael Crichton in New York in 1999. Chrichton, the author of the blockbuster...

(NYT10) PHOENIX, Ariz. -- Nov. 5, 2008 -- REPUBS-PALIN -- Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin with friends and family members in the lobby of the Arizona Biltmore...

(NYT39) PHOENIX, Ariz. -- Nov. 5, 2008 -- REPUBS-PALIN-2 -- Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin with friends and family members in the lobby of the Arizona Biltmo...

*SUBBING TO CORRECT MISPELLED NAME*,*FILE PHOTO*(NYT7) NEW YORK -- Nov. 5, 2008 -- SUB-OBIT-CRICHTON-2 -- Author Michael Crichton in New York in 1999....

*SUBBING TO CORRECT MISPELLED NAME*,*FILE PHOTO*(NYT8) NEW YORK -- Nov. 5, 2008 -- SUB-OBIT-CRICHTON-3 -- Author Michael Crichton in New York in 1999....

*SUBBING TO CORRECT MISPELLED NAME*,*FILE PHOTO*(NYT9) NEW YORK -- Nov. 5, 2008 -- SUB-OBIT-CRICHTON-4 -- Author Michael Crichton in New York in 1999....

(NYT1) CHICAGO -- Nov. 4, 2008 -- ELN-OBAMA-1 -- Sen. Barack Obama, the Democratic presidential candidate, holds up his voting card after voting in Ch...

(NYT1) CHICAGO -- Nov. 4, 2008 -- ELN-OBAMA-2 -- Sen. Barack Obama, the Democratic presidential candidate, with his wife Michelle, as they cast their...

(NYT3) CHICAGO -- Nov. 4, 2008 -- ELN-OBAMA-3 -- Sen. Barack Obama, the Democratic presidential candidate, and his wife Michelle, right, are joined by...

(NYT4) CHICAGO -- Nov. 4, 2008 -- ELN-OBAMA-4 -- Sen. Barack Obama, the Democratic presidential candidate, with his wife Michelle, right background, a...

(NYT5) CHICAGO -- Nov. 4, 2008 -- ELN-VOTING-1 -- Voters cast their ballots in Chicago on election day, Tuesday, Nov. 4, 2008. (Doug Mills/The New Yor...

(NYT6) NEW YORK -- Nov. 4, 2008 -- ELN-VOTING-2 -- Voters wait on line on Greenwich Street in New York on Election Day, Tuesday, Nov. 4, 2008. The Mud...

(NYT7) CHARLESTON, Mo. -- ELN-VOTING-3 -- Voters cast their ballots at a polling station set up at the United Methodist Church in Charleston, Mo., on...

(NYT8) VIENNA, Va. -- ELN-VOTING-4 -- Voters line-up before dawn to cast their ballots at Nottaway Park in Vienna, Va., on Election Day, Tuesday, Nov....

(NYT19) PHOENIX -- Nov. 4, 2008 -- ELN-MCCAIN -- Sen. John McCain, second from right, along with his wife Cindy, as they prepare to cast their ballots...

(NYT20) PHOENIX -- Nov. 4, 2008 -- ELN-MCCAIN-2 -- Sen. John McCain and his wife Cindy cast their ballots at a polling station in Phoenix on election...

(NYT22) PHOENIX -- Nov. 4, 2008 -- ELN-MCCAIN-3 -- Sen. John McCain and his wife Cindy after voting in Phoenix on election Day, Tuesday, Nov. 4, 2008....

(NYT68) PHOENIX, Ariz. -- Nov. 4, 2008 -- ELN-MCCAIN-7 -- Sen. John McCain and his wife, Cindy, wave to well-wishers as they leave their local voting...

(NYT66) MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. -- Nov. 4, 2008 -- ELN-MN-FRANKEN-3 -- Democratic Senatorial candidate Al Franken arrives to cast his ballot at his local p...

(NYT69) INDIANAPOLIS, Indiana-- Nov. 4, 2008 -- ELN-OBAMA-7 -- Sen. Barack Obama, left, jokes with members of the United Auto Workers during a visit t...

(NYT15) WILMINGTON, Del. -- Nov. 4, 2008 -- ELN-OBAMA-BIDEN -- Sen. Joe Biden, the Democratic vice presidential nominee, after voting in Wilmington, T...

(NYT67) WILMINGTON, Del. -- Nov. 4, 2008 -- ELN-OBAMA-BIDEN-2 -- Sen. Joe Biden, the Democratic nominee for vice president, signs in to vote at his lo...

(NYT39) LOS ANGELES - Nov. 4, 2008 -- ELN-VOTING-17 -- Voters cast their ballots at a polling place set up at the Watts Towers Arts Center in the Wat...

(NYT16) NEW YORK -- Nov. 4, 2008 -- ELN-VOTING-10 -- People wait to cast their ballot on Election Day in New York's neighborhood of Harlem, Tuesday,m...

(NYT17) SILVER SPRING, Md. -- Nov. 4, 2008 -- ELN-VOTING-11 -- People waited on line to vote at Woodlin Elementary School in Silver Spring, Md., on El...

(NYT17) SARASOTA, Fla. -- Nov. 4, 2008 -- ELN-VOTING-12 -- People wait in line for the polls to open at Twin Lakes Park in Sarasota, Fla., on Election...

(NYT18) SARASOTA, Fla. -- Nov. 4, 2008 -- ELN-VOTING-13 -- Alan Tines with Yummie Donuts & Bagels offers some free doughnuts to waiting voters as he t...

(NYT21) NEW YORK -- Nov. 4, 2008 -- ELN-VOTING-14 -- The scene at a polling station in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, on Election Day, Tuesday, Nov. 4, 200...

(NYT24) SAN FRANCISCO -- Nov. 4, 2008 -- ELN-VOTING-X -- Rene Garcia Jr. uses a washing machine to mark his ballot at a polling station set up at a la...

(NYT33) SAN FRANCISCO -- Nov. 4, 2008 -- ELN-VOTING-16 -- People wait on line at polling station set up at a laundromat in San Francisco on Election D...

(NYT55) SILVER SPRING, Md. -- Nov. 4, 2008 -- ELN-VOTING-17 -- Voters cast their ballots at a polling place in the Woodlin Elementary School in Silver...

(NYT57) COLLEGE PARK, Md. -- Nov. 4, 2008 -- ELN-VOTING-19 -- Voters cast their ballots at a polling place at the University of Maryland in College Pa...

(NYT58) VIENNA, Va. -- Nov. 4, 2008 -- ELN-VOTING-20 -- Voters lined up before dawn in Nottaway Park in Vienna, Va., Tuesday, Nov. 4, 2008. (Jim Lo S...

(NYT59) VIENNA, Va. -- Nov. 4, 2008 -- ELN-VOTING-21 -- Voters line up early in the morning to cast their ballots at George Washington Middle School i...

(NYT74) LAS VEGAS -- Nov. 4, 2008 -- ELN-VOTING-27 -- Voters line up to cast their ballots at a polling place in an elementary school in Las Vegas on...

(NYT75) LAS VEGAS -- Nov. 4, 2008 -- ELN-VOTING-28 -- Voters peruse sample ballots as they wait on line to cast theirr ballots at a polling place in a...

(NYT76) CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. -- Nov. 4, 2008 -- ELN-VOTING-29 -- Kathy Wolz, a volunteer with the campaign of Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.), chats with Ke...

(NYT79) VIENNA, Va. -- Nov. 4, 2008 -- ELN-VOTING-30 -- Voters line up outside a polling place in Nottaway Park in Vienna, Va., on Tuesday, Nov. 4, 20...

(NYT81) NEW YORK -- Nov. 4, 2008 -- ELN-VOTING-31 -- Leroy Washington, 95, smiles after voting at P.S. 175, Nov. 4, 2008 in the borough of Brooklyn, N...

(NYT82) NEW YORK -- Nov. 4, 2008 -- ELN-VOTING-32 -- Raymond Baksh, 40, center, who is blind, using a Ballot Marking Device used to assist people wit...

(NYT9) VIENNA, Va. -- ELN-VOTING-5 -- Voters line-up before dawn to cast their ballots at Nottaway Park in Vienna, Va., on Election Day, Tuesday, Nov....

(NYT10) NEW YORK -- Nov. 4, 2008 -- ELN-VOTING-6 -- The Mudtruck Gourmet Street Coffee van offered free coffee to voters waiting to cast their ballots...

(NYT13) ALBANY, Ga. -- Nov. 4, 2008 -- ELN-VOTING-8 -- People line up to vote at a polling station in Albany, Ga., on Election Day, Tuesday, Nov. 4, 2...

(NYT14) NEW YORK -- Nov. 4, 2008 -- ELN-VOTING-9 -- Voters inside a voting station in Harlem, New York, on Election Day, Tuesday, Nov. 4, 2008. (Angel...

(NYT32) NEW YORK -- Nov. 4, 2008 -- ELN-VOTING-VOICES-1 -- Van Wilson, 62, a Vietnam Veteran with 20 years of service in the U.S. Army, looks out from...

(NYT47) CHICAGO -- Nov. 4, 2007 -- ELN-VOTING-VOICES-2 -- Darius Jackson, 25, votes on Election Day, Tuesday, Nov. 4, 2008 in Chicago. "I think this...

(NYT60) COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Nov. 4, 2008 -- ELN-VOTING-X -- Voting at a fire house in Columbus, Ohio, on Tuesday, Nov. 4, 2008. (Yana Paskova/The New Yo...

**EDS.: RETRANSMISSION TO CORRECT ID OF ROBERTA MCCAIN** (NYT52) GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. -- Nov. 4, 2008 -- SUB-ELN-MCCAIN-4 -- Sen. John McCain greets...