____________________________________________________________________________________________
Long lines form early as voters finally decide
Staff and agencies
Ahmed Bowling, who lined up early waiting for a polling place in Alexandria, Va., to open at 6 a.m, said the election "will mark a significant change in the lives of all Americans, and so we do have to come out as early as possible to cast our votes."
"I‘m feeling kind of fired up. I‘m feeling like I‘m ready to go," Obama told nearly 100,000 people gathered for his final rally Monday night in Virginia.
The Illinois senator‘s final day of campaigning was bittersweet: he was mourning the loss of his grandmother, Madelyn Dunham, who helped raise him but died of cancer Sunday night and never got to see the results of the historic election.
"This momentum, this enthusiasm convinces me we‘re going to win tomorrow," McCain told a raucous evening rally in Henderson, Nev. It was the fifth campaign stop in an 18-hour odyssey that took him across three time zones.
McCain planned events in Colorado and New Mexico, then a party at the Biltmore Hotel in Phoenix.
___
Copyright © 2008 The Associated Press. All rights
reserved.