Screams of celebration can be heard in all corners of campus right now, after CNN projected moments ago that Barack Obama will be the next president of the United States.
The announcement comes after Obama won Virginia, leaving McCain without a conceivable mathematical path to victory.
-- Matt...
Results from the three state ballot questions are in, and the results are significant.
Question 2, which decriminalizes small amounts of marajuana (making posession more akin to a speeding ticket than a criminal infraction), was approved by a 65 percent to 35 percent majority, according to Boston...
MSNBC is reporting that Florida and Virginia still "hang in the balance," with McCain trailing 52 percent to 48 in the former but leading 51-48 in the latter.
More on Virginia, though: the New York Times' electoral map shows that Fairfax County, a densely populated area in the...
Political Science Professor Kent Portney told Daily a Daily news reporter several minute ago that, even if McCain wins the rest of the key swing states (Florida, Virginia, etc.), the math will still put Obama at 270 barring a major surprise in a solid blue state.
The mood at the campus center is...
The most significant of the early returns look good for the junior senator from Illinois. Most of the major media outlets are calling two blue-leaning states -- Pennsylvania and New Hampshire -- for Barack Obama, giving him an early lead as the East Coast results continue to trickle in.
The...
Brian Agler, one of this event's moderators, just told the crowd at Hotung that he's heard from Alan Solomont (a Tufts lecturer who's a bigwig at Obama headquarters) that NPR is about to project Pennsylvania for Obama.
That would obviously be huge news, as Pennsylvania is a key swing state that...
The crowd in Hotung is revved up right now, as CNN just projected Obama wins in Connecticut, New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, Delaware, Massachusetts and the candidate's home state of Illinois. The event's coordinators cut the ongoing crowd discussion short to blast CNN as it announced the news.
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The Daily will be blogging live tonight from the ExCollege's Election Night Extravaganza at Hotung Cafe. The event will feature performances from student groups, live results-watching segments and faculty/student political panels.
The room is packed with energy -- about 75 to 100 people are here at...
CNN is reporting that John McCain has won Kentucky and its eight electoral votes by a 53.5 percent to 45.4 percent margin. Those numbers could fluctuate, however, as only 11.15 percent of the state has reported its totals.
Projections also find that Obama has taken Vermont, which has 3 electoral...
Amid all the excitement of election night, there is still a reasonable chance that today's presidential election could ultimately end up being an anticlimactic one. With every news media outlet in the world scrambling to beat the others to the punch, it's anyone's guess as to just how early the...
