Obama scouting location for celebration
Speaking of not measuring the proverbial White House drapes prematurely, Democrat Barack Obama is planning an outdoor election night celebration in Chicago.
His campaign is scouting Millennium Park and also Grant Park, a huge space where Pope John Paul II spoke in 1979, the Chicago Tribune is reporting on its website this afternoon. Obama, of course, has drawn huge crowds to his events, both in the United States and in Germany.
Obama is leading the national polls and surveys in swing states. And this afternoon, CNN put usually Republican Virginia in his column, and issued a breaking news alert to say that he had passed the 270 electoral votes needed to win the White House -- only based on projections and if the election were held today, of course.
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