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WASHINGTON — PresidentBarack Obama on Tuesday won asecond term in the White House,defeating Republican challengerMitt Romney in a hard-foughtelection that served as a referen-dum on who could better easeAmericans’ economic pain anduncertainty.

Obama marched across the na-tion, scoring victory after victoryin battleground states where theeconomy had mounted justenough of a comeback to convincevoters to give him four moreyears.

He held onto the coalition thatled him to victory in 2008:women, Latinos, African-Ameri-cans and young people. Romney,

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NEW YORK — Jimmy Kimmel’s week inBrooklyn got off to a rough start, but Wednes-day’s show may just have made up for all thestorm business: He finally got the chance tomeet his idol, David Letterman.

The host of CBS’ “Late Show” made thejourney from the Ed Sullivan Theater in mid-town Manhattan to Brooklyn, a seven-miletrip that took him an hour and 25 minutes,thanks to Sandy-induced gridlock. It was arare crossover appearance for Letterman, andhis first-ever visit to ABC’s “Jimmy KimmelLive.”

Kimmel made no effort to play it cool. Inhis introduction, he described Letterman asnot only “the main reason I got into televi-sion” but also “the main reason I got a televi-sion.”

“I am more excited that he’s here tonightthan I am able to explain,” he said.

To prove what a fanboy he is, Kimmelpulled out pictures of himself as a teenagerblowing out candles on a Letterman-inspiredbirthday cake and of his car, with its “L8NITE” vanity plate.

Throughout the lengthy interview, Kimmel

made repeated overtures of friendship towardLetterman, who shot them down. There wereoffers of homemade BBQ, fly-fishing trips,and even pie, but sadly, Letterman refused tobite.

“Do you have guy friends that you hangout with?” Kimmel wondered at one point.

“Mmm ... no,” Letterman admitted. “Idon’t know why that is, and I don’t think atthis point and certainly here on this showwe’re going to answer that question.”

Kimmel was able to mask his disappoint-ment — if just barely.

While Letterman is unlikely to becomeBFFs with Kimmel anytime soon, he was ex-tremely gracious regarding the younger host’smove to 11:35 p.m. this coming January,which will put Kimmel in direct competitionwith his hero.

“I want to wish you the best of luck whenyou move the show. I think it’ll be exciting. Ithink you’re going to be perfect at 11:30,” Let-terman said. “I think it’s going to be great andI couldn’t be happier to have you in the run-ning.”

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seeking to become the firstMormon to win the presiden-cy, was able to win only twostates Obama had won lasttime, Indiana and North Car-olina.

The second Democrat towin a second term since WorldWar II, Obama swept theNortheast and West Coaststates and won most of theRust Belt battlegrounds, in-cluding Ohio, Michigan, Wis-consin and Pennsylvania.Romney won dependably Re-publican states across theSouth and into Texas and theGreat Plains.

Obama took office in Jan-uary 2009 with a mandate torevive an economy still strug-gling to recover from theGreat Recession of 2007-2009, the worst downturnsince the Great Depression.Six of 10 voters Tuesday saidthe economy was the mostimportant issue, well ahead ofhealth care or foreign policy.Three of four voters said theeconomy remained poor ornot so good.

Obama touted the econo-my’s steady progress on hiswatch; Romney cited stub-bornly high unemploymentand mounting federal debt ashe argued the recovery’s pacewas too slow. In the exitpolls, slightly more than halfsaid Obama was more intouch with people like them,compared with 44 percent forRomney.

The president will face thestatus quo in Congress. Re-publicans held their majorityin the House of Representa-tives, according to projections.All 435 voting seats were upTuesday. Democrats retainedcontrol of the Senate. Republi-cans had needed a net gain offour seats.

Turnout was reportedheavy, particularly in swing

states as well as storm-batteredNew York and New Jersey.Experts still expected it to re-main below 2008 levels, find-ing voters less engaged. About32 million people had votedearly, either in person or bymail.

The president spent Elec-tion Day in Chicago. Hestopped by his campaign’sHyde Park field office in southChicago to greet workers andcall voters. He called six Wis-consin voters, then talked tosupporters at the office.

He congratulated Romneyfor a “spirited campaign” andsaid he felt good about the re-sults. “We feel confidentwe’ve got the votes to win,that it’s going to depend ulti-mately on whether those votesturn out,” Obama said.

Later Tuesday, Obamawas player-coach for a quickbasketball game. Among histeam members was formerChicago Bulls great ScottiePippen. Obama’s team won byabout 20 points.

Romney voted in Bel-mont, Mass., and then madehastily scheduled campaignswings to Ohio and Pennsyl-vania. Ohio was consideredcrucial for Romney; no Re-publican has been electedpresident without winning theBuckeye State.

The last day’s scramblewas vividly on display at theCleveland airport. As Romneywas waiting for running matePaul Ryan to arrive, Vice Pres-ident Joe Biden’s plane tookoff. Biden made his own last-minute trek to Ohio.

Romney visited a Cleve-land-area campaign office,where he proclaimed, “This isa big day for change.”

Obama was doggedthroughout the year by votersexpressing qualms about hisstewardship of the economy.He was unlikely to match the52.8 percent share of the pop-ular vote he got in 2008, ormatch the 365 electoral votes

he won that year, when hepledged to start a new era of“hope and change” politics.

The campaign will be re-membered as a marathon thatstarted and stayed close. Nei-ther Romney nor Obamacould open up much of a lead,and both parties spent un-precedented billions of dollarsfor ads and efforts to turn outtheir voters.

Obama was vulnerablefrom the beginning. Withinweeks of taking office in Janu-ary 2009, he pushed throughan $831 billion economicstimulus plan aimed at easingthe recession’s impact. In2010, he won approval of ahistoric overhaul of the na-tion’s health system, whichwill require nearly everyone toobtain coverage by 2014.

Both measures werepassed with virtually no Re-publican support, and oftenbitter partisan wrangling. Re-publicans saw a huge political

opening, and fueled by thegrassroots tea party move-ment, the party won control ofthe House of Representativesin 2010 by protesting what itcalled Obama’s overrelianceon and expansion of govern-ment.

At the same time, theeconomy struggled to recover.The nation’s unemploymentrate, 7.8 percent the monthObama took office, went to 10percent that October and was7.9 percent last month —more ammunition for the Re-publicans.

Obama, though, got somebreaks. The economy did re-cover. Unemployment hasdropped from its highs. Con-sumer confidence inched up.And Romney struggled at firstto win the hearts of the conser-vatives who drive the Republi-can Party.

Obama exploited Rom-ney’s past, recalling his sup-port of Massachusetts’ abor-

tion rights laws and his sup-port for the state’s health carelaw, considered a model forthe federal program.

Obama was also able totarget specific groups of voterswho Romney tended to alien-ate. The president pushed hardfor women’s votes with re-minders Romney now sidedfirmly with anti-abortionforces and had to call for“binders full of women” in or-der to find qualified women tofill jobs while governor. Instates with legions of autoworkers such as Ohio, he re-called how Romney urged let-ting the domestic industry gobankrupt without any helpfrom the federal government.

Romney won the nomina-tion only after an unexpectedstruggle against a weak field,and not until the summer andfall did the party base beginrallying around him. Thechoice of Ryan helped ener-gize the right, but Romney’s

biggest boost came during theOct. 3 debate in Denver.

Romney’s assured per-formance that night galva-nized conservative supportand seemed to give him newmomentum. He briefly openedup a larger lead over Obama,only to see it fade as the presi-dent came back and did wellin the next two debates.

What may have helpedObama most was SuperstormSandy. Leaders traditionallybenefit from a rally-round-the-flag effect immediatelyafter crises, and Obama sus-pended campaigning for threedays last week so he couldmonitor and manage emer-gency responses.

On Oct. 31, he visitedbattered New Jersey, touringthe devastation with Republi-can Gov. Chris Christie, whohad given the party conven-tion’s keynote address.Christie had warm praise forthe president’s efforts.

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PHOTO BY CAROLYN COLE | LOS ANGELES TIMES/MCTA Romney supporter reacts at the Boston Convention Center when Fox News calls the race for President Barack Obama.

As Kentucky closed itsvoting polls at 6 p.m. Tues-day, the UK Alumni Houseopened its doors as about 50students, faculty, staff, ad-ministrators and childrenfiled into the ballroom towatch election results devel-op in real time.

The gala was designed toteach students about theelectoral processes in ameaningful and fun way.

“A lot of learning worksbetter when people are hav-ing a good time ... and areresponding to social re-wards instead of justgrades,” said Stephen Voss,an associate professor, di-rector of undergraduatestudies in the UK politicalscience department and or-ganizer of the gala.

“This is what we call ateachable moment,” he said.“Having this big electionmakes people interested in alot of subjects that theywould normally consider ab-stractions. And they’re learn-ing things about the politicalsystem that they’ll remembertheir whole lives.”

Voss was also involvedin pre-debate panels put onby the Writing, Rhetoric andDigital Media program and

Center for English as aSecond Language for thefirst and second presi-dential debates, and hesaid that the universitywas trying to “milk allthe events” for their edu-cational value.

Voss invited themembers of his cam-paigns and electionsclass, which is offeredonce every four years, toattend the gala.

Shelley Trautman, apolitical science and his-tory junior and studentin Voss’ class, was excit-ed to vote in her firstpresidential election andto watch the results rollin while surrounded byother politically engagedpeople.

“It’s really excitingto be able to vote for thepresident, just becauseit’s a right that noteveryone has around theworld,” Trautman said.“To be able to vote soeasily is a big deal.”

As she watched Ohioand Florida alternate be-tween blue and red on thetelevision screen, Trautmancommented on the closerace.

“It’s nerve-wracking be-cause one night can changethe future of America to the

extreme,” she said. “Youcan’t trust anything exceptthe final vote in the end.”

Gala attendees includedprofessors and students, De-mocrats and Republicans,Christians, Muslims, Hindusand Buddhists.

Pooja Reddy, a psycholo-gy junior and first-genera-tion American, was excitedto watch the results come inwith other Americans andlearn more about the howelections work in the U.S.

“Politics and American

culture are really inter-twined,” she said. “Beingable to watch the resultswith other politically activepeople is a good alternativeto watching alone.”

The UK political scienceand history departments, Pi

Sigma Alpha honorary socie-ty, the Center for English asa Second Language, theHonors Program, the Writ-ing, Rhetoric and DigitalMedia program and the Col-lege of Arts and Sciencessponsored the gala.

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Members of UK community watch close election

By Amelia Orwick and Judah Taylornews@kykernel.com

Students, professors, othersattend gala at Alumni House

Professor Don Gross, left, professor Karen Mingst and Bob Mingst discuss election results as they are announced Tuesday night.

PHOTOS BY JAMES HOLT | STAFFInstructor William McIlwain explains the American election process to student Manhal Boya during the election-night gala Tuesday.

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Republican challengerAndy Barr bounced backfrom a narrow loss two yearsago to defeat Democratic in-cumbent Ben Chandler inKentucky’s 6th Congression-al District race.

Barr addressed a rau-cous, jam-packed ballroomat the Marriott Griffin GateHotel in Lexington on Tues-day night to celebrate hisvictory with his supporters.

“Two years ago tonight, Isaid the people of the 6thCongressional District hadspoken — but it would takesome time to determine whatthey said,” Barr said. “Thistime, the people have spokenand it’s clear what theysaid.”

Barr spoke about the im-portance of the election andhow much his supportersmeant to him.

“When they told us wecouldn’t win, we said for the

sake of our country we can’tafford to lose,” Barr said.“Tonight I think of everyonewho believed in us and ourcandidacy before it gatheredsteam, and I am humbled be-yond measure.”

Barr spent much of thecampaign attempting to linkChandler to PresidentBarack Obama’s policies,running ads that focused onhealth-care reform, taxes andcoal issues.

“He ran on principles in-stead of taking cheap shotslike his opponent,” saidPatrick Kelly, one of Barr’schallengers in the May pri-mary election. “Chandlerdidn’t stand on a platform ofideas. That really doesn’twork, especially when youhave been in office sixyears.”

Barr came 648 votes shyof tying Chandler in 2010,roughly one voter perprecinct. The margin was alittle larger this time, as Barrgained 51 percent of the vote

(153,222) to Chandler’s 47percent (141,436) with all 19counties in the district re-porting.

“He worked hard andhad a message. Congress-man Chandler has been no-tably absent the last twoyears. He hasn’t invested thetime in these counties. AndyBarr has,” Republican Partyof Kentucky chairman SteveRobertson said. “He wentout and worked hard, with astrong message to createjobs and change government— the fundamentals of gov-ernment.

“The people of this dis-trict are ready for changeand Andy was the agent.”

The two candidates spentmore than $4 million cam-paigning — mostly on nega-tive TV ads. Millions morewere spent on the race byoutside groups.

Chandler ads accusedBarr of lying on an applica-tion about a conviction forusing a fake ID when he was

19 years old. The campaignsalso spent campaign capitaldebating the coal miner cre-dentials of Heath Lovell, acoal executive who appearedin Barr’s ads.

“I thinkthe personalattacks onHeath Lovelland Andycame back tohave an ef-fect,” saidPat Melton,Barr’s cam-paign manag-er. “We knewfrom 2010that theywould bringit up again(the fake IDissue), so we were preparedthis time. I think they under-estimated the value of coalin the race.”

The first results thatcame in to the crowd at theMarriott were from FayetteCounty, which gave Chan-

dler nearly an 8,000-vote ad-vantage, worrying thecrowd.

“Obviously you look atthat and you become a littleconcerned,” Robertson said.

“But whenwe heardthat AndyBarr hadwon Wood-ford Countyby 400 voteswe kind ofhad an idea itmight be go-ing ourway.”

Barr saidthat Chan-dler was gra-cious in hisconcess ion

call to him earlier in thenight.

“I thanked CongressmanChandler for his service tothe people of this district andto this Commonwealth,”Barr said. “I have neverdoubted Chandler’s love for

Kentucky. This has been anextremely tough and hardfought race. It’s difficult tolose. I know, I have beenthere.”

Melton said the campaignmade a strategic effort to tar-get voters who may be will-ing to hear Barr’s message,and then focused their get-out-the-vote efforts on thosetargeted — using help fromthe UK College Republicans.

“The College Republi-cans were great. They volun-teered for us all summer,”Melton said. “I appreciateeverything they did for us.”

Michael Babiarz, vicechairman of the UK CollegeRepublicans, interned for theBarr campaign during thesummer.

“We made phone calls,went door-to door — mostlyvoter contact at the mostgrass-roots level,” Babiarzsaid. “We worked hard tar-geting voters that lean Re-publican and lead them tous.”

By Les Johnsljohns@kykernel.com

Barr raised in rematchPHOTO BY GENEVIEVE ADAMS | STAFF

Andy Barr greets supporters at his election party Tuesday night at the Marriott Griffin Gate. He defeated incumbent Ben Chandler, who beat Barr in the same race two years ago by fewer than 700 votes.

Among cheers, tears andsighs, Ben Chandler spokewith his constituents Tuesdaynight after results showed helost the race for U.S. Repre-sentative of the 6th Congres-sional District to RepublicanAndy Barr.

“I just can’t tell you allhow much you all mean tome,” Chandler said. “I hopehe (Andy Barr) serves theconstituents well, becausethey deserve it.”

Chandler said he calledBarr after the results were an-nounced and congratulatedhim.

He also said he and Barrhave talked about makingBarr’s transition into officeeasier.

“It was a chance of a life-time to serve the people ofCentral Kentucky in Wash-ington, D.C.,” he said. “It hasbeen fantastic.

“I’m overwhelmed with

gratitude tonight.”Although Chandler lost

the election, the night wascelebrated with the victory ofsome of his fellow Democ-rats.

“Let me congratulatethose who won a hard fighttonight,” Kentucky State Au-ditor Adam Edelen said,“those who are renewing ourparty.

“Our best days are aheadand so are Kentucky’s.”

Some members of the UKCollege Democrats worked asinterns for Chandler’s cam-paign.

“I grew up in Lexingtonhearing the Chandler name,”said Joseph Sykes, UK Col-lege Democrats member andintern for Chandler. “Hisfamily has a history of caringfor the individuals of Ken-tucky.”

Sykes said a woman visit-ed his office from Indianasaying the Chandler familyhas the “stature of ‘Kennedysof Kentucky.’ ”

Chandler graduated fromUK with a degree in historyand a juris doctor from theUK College of Law.

“People know Ben Chan-dler. He’s involved with theUniversity of Kentucky, andhe’s represented us,” Edelensaid. “He’s a known quantity.”

Chandler started his ca-reer as a private-practicelawyer in Lexington beforehe started his career as apolitician. He has served asU.S. Representative for the6th Congressional Districtsince elected in 2004.

In the 2010 elections,Chandler ran against Barr andwon by just more than 600votes.

“He’s an independent,practical problem solver whohas frequently differed withhis own party,” Edelen said.“He’s what we need to besuccessful in Congress.”

Chandler is a moderate toconservative Democrat whohas voted for most Democrat-ic bills but also voted against

health-care reform.“Ben Chandler is a strong

Democrat who cares aboutwomen and their choice butalso cares about jobs and en-vironmental issues,” UK Col-lege Democrats PresidentShea Henning said.

Bills he supported includethe American Recovery andReinvesment Act and healthcare for children under theState Children’s Health Insur-ance Program.

“Ben Chandler has a

longtime experience of work-ing well with the moderateRepublicans,” Sykes said.“This is something that is notgenerally possible with thecurrent polarization.”

UK College Democratshave been working withChandler throughout his cam-paign.

“We have been cam-paigning every weekend andphone banking during theweek,” Henning said. “Some-times our entire meetings

were dedicated solely onphone banking.”

Chandler spent almostnine years in Congress, andhe spent about 20 years inpublic service, including inthe role of state auditor.

“I don’t know if it’s overor not,” Chandler said. “I willalways look forward to serv-ing the people of the com-monwealth of Kentucky.

“When you dig a dryhole, you don’t stand thereand fill it with tears.”

Chandler loses bidfor re-election

By Kayla Pickrellkpickrell@kykernel.com

Close race went in favor of Republican candidate,opposite of what happened 2 years ago

PHOTO BY LATARA APPLEBY | STAFFRep. Ben Chandler, left, speaks with friend Gene Vance after losing re-election Tuesday.

This time, thepeople have

spoken and it’s clearwhat they said.”

ANDY BARR6th Congressional District

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Diane Lawless, Lexing-ton’s 3rd District city councilmember, won re-electionTuesday night.

After what she said was agrueling campaign againstopponent Stephanie Spires,Lawless is grateful of the out-come.

“I’m happy, I never takeit for granted,” she said, “I’veworked very hard over thelast four years, I’m honoredto have won again and beable to serve the 3rd District.”

When the race drew to aclose Tuesday night with thevotes in Lawless’ favor, shegave many hugs as con-stituents and old friends atBuster’s Billiards & Back-room came to offer their con-gratulations.

The 3rd District encom-passes UK and downtownLexington as well as nearbyneighborhoods.

Lawless shared some ofthe traits and tasks she saidare important componentsof serving on the city coun-cil.

“Just helping solve prob-lems and finding where theloopholes are and closingthem, it’s constant,” shesaid.

The councilwoman gavea few examples of why shethought she has been a suc-cessful council member.

“I like being able to thinkoutside the box and solvingproblems and finding creativeways to do that,” she said.“I’m a good problem solverand I’m good at bringing peo-

ple together.”After the results were an-

nounced, Lawless supportersshared their thoughts on thecouncilwoman and theirhopes of what she willachieve in her next term.

“She works tirelessly tomake things better in ourcommunity,” said Terry Bent-ley, a camera operator whooften works at Keeneland andthe Kentucky Horse Park.

“Just what she’s been do-ing,” Bentley said. “Whatshe’s been doing is enough.”

Bob Urban, a video pro-ducer, said he has lived in theneighborhood for a while andthat Lawless has been doing agood job.

Lawless said she has con-cern for UK students and hopes she will be able to fur-ther improve the safety ofthose who attend the universi-ty.

In her next term, Lawlesssaid she hopes to spreadawareness and educate stu-dents on potential safety haz-ards. She also said she wouldlike to make the universityand the community aware ofthe possible down sides toUK’s dry campus.

“When UK made it a drycampus is when the problemsin the neighborhoods escalat-ed,” she said.

The problems arise incampus groups going offcampus, she said.

“What happens is thesefraternities will go and renthouses and the landlords arefilling their pockets, and a lotof these houses are extremelyunsafe, and I’m concernedabout the students’ safety,”

she said. But Lawless said not all

of the college students livingoff campus are causing prob-lems.

“Most of the students aregreat neighbors and those

who aren’t give the other stu-dents a bad name and reallyhave created a situation thatmakes it unlivable for otherpeople, even other students,”she said.

Lawless went on to say

the alcohol restrictions oncampus could cause safety is-sues around the city.

“They are still going todrink, they’re just going torent an off-campus housewhere there aren’t any rules

or controls and it just getscrazy,” she said.

Lawless said she is excit-ed and ready for anotherterm.

“I’m fired up and ready togo,” she said.

By Morgan Eads

meads@kykernel.com

Re-elected for 3rd term in Lexington’s 3rd District

Lawless keeps seat on city council

Stephanie Spires, a can-didate for Lexington’s 3rdDistrict city council seat, lostto incumbent Diane Lawlesson Tuesday.

Spires said she learnedfrom her campaign experi-ences even in defeat.

“I’ve learned thatyou’ve got to get out thereand pound the pavement,”she said. “You have to betrue to yourself, and at theend of the day that’s what Idid.”

She was gracious afterthe conclusion of the elec-tion.

“The people chose thecandidate they want, and I’mOK with that,” she said.

Spires said she could nothave gotten anything accom-plished without the peoplewho helped her in her ef-forts.

“I just have to say thank

you, because I was justoverwhelmed with theamount of support. I had somany students, profession-als, neighbors and friendshelping,” she said. “Every-one has really stepped upand helped. It’s been reallygreat, and I can’t say enoughabout my supporters andcontributors.”

She said she is hopefulshe’ll return to politics in thefuture.

“I will be back,” shesaid. “I just need to sit backand look at it. I’m still goingto be around. I’m still goingto be in politics.”

Joshua Womenrome, a3rd District resident, decidedto support Spires after shehelped him with robbery is-sues at his residence.

“We live on the samestreet, and in January andMarch my house was brokeninto. I didn’t know Stephaniewas running at the time,” hesaid.

Although no other offi-cials he reached out to wereable to help him, Spires tookswift action for her neighbor,Womenrome said.

“I asked her about it, andshe had a meeting set upwith the people who run theHearing and Speech Centerthe next day,” he said.“That’s really what broughtme on board.”

Womenrome said he isoptimistic Spires will run inthe next district election.

“I can almost guaranteethat she will run again if Ihave anything to do with it,”he said.

Another of Spires’ sup-porters, Lindsey Maggard,was a former student of thecandidate.

“I met her through work-ing with her at the EmergingLeader Institute at UK,” shesaid.

Maggard said she be-lieves Spires will return andsaid Spires deserves to serve

on the city council in the fu-ture.

“I think she really caresabout all the different as-pects of her district. My par-ents live in the 3rd District,and I live downtown,” Mag-gard said. “She was willingto reach out and connectwith as many people as pos-sible and she really had goodplans.”

Spires said she looks for-ward to strengthening herties with UK and its stu-dents.

“That’s a relationship Ireally do cherish. I love thestudents in our district,” shesaid. “They make our districtso special.”

Even though she saidshe’s hopeful, Spires saidshe is not certain whethershe will seek the district seatagain.

“Whether I decide to runagain still remains to beseen. It takes a lot of effort,”she said.

Spires learned from council run

By Chase Sanders

csanders@kykernel.com

Unsure if she’ll run again in the future, but supporters hope so

PHOTO BY ADAM PENNAVARIA | STAFFJonathan Weber, left, and 3rd District candidate Stephanie Spires talk at Park Place Apartments after results were delivered Tuesday night.

PHOTO BY LATARA APPLEBY | STAFFCouncilwoman Diane Lawless, center, speaks with Rep. Ben Chandler at Buster’s Billiards & Backroom on Tuesday night after she was re-elected to Lexington’s Urban County Council. The 3rd District includes UK’s campus.

Ohio voters getstarted before dawn

WORTHINGTON, Ohio —More than an hour beforedawn, a line started formingoutside the WorthingtonPresbyterian Church pollingstation in this suburb ofColumbus, Ohio. So it wentTuesday all over the state asvoters turned out in force toplay their outsized role inelecting the president.

“It’s something peoplearound here take some pridein — that we have maybe adisproportionate amount ofcontrol in the outcome,” saidDoug Metz, a retired lawyerwho showed up later to casthis ballot for Mitt Romney.

For many in Ohio, theritual of stepping up to a bal-lot machine also came witha sense of relief that thelong, ugly campaign was fi-nally drawing to a close.

“Awful, just awful,” saidPenny Dietrich, 63, a home-maker. “Both sides.”

The relentless attack adson television started to recedeTuesday. But as Ohio votersfilled the state’s polling sta-tions, attention turned to avigilant watch over the in-tegrity of the vote count.Lawyers for both Mitt Rom-ney and President BarackObama were monitoring thevote closely in preparationfor litigation if the result wasclose Tuesday night. The As-sociated Press and news net-works, citing surveys of vot-ers exiting the polls, saidObama had won the state.

Allan Berliant, an Oba-ma campaign troubleshooterin Cincinnati, surveyed 20polling locations and found“a dozen of them out ofhand” having issues. Pollworkers, citing problemswith voters’ identificationpapers, required them to castpaper ballots, heighteningthe risk that their vote mightnot be counted, he said.

“It’s a huge problem,”said Berliant, who said low-income and African-Americanneighborhoods were targeted.“It’s voter suppression. I’venever seen anything like it.”

But Tim Burke, chair-

man of the Hamilton CountyBoard of Elections inCincinnati, said nothingmore than typical electionday snafus were occurring.

“I was worried at the startof the day that there was go-ing to be a deliberate effort atvoter suppression by tea partytypes,” said Burke, who isalso chairman of the countyDemocratic Party. “We’re notseeing that at all.”

In Columbus, the statecapital, election officialssaid the balloting ransmoothly statewide, with nomore than minor glitcheswith voting equipment.Long lines at the polls indi-cated turnout was heavy.

In the run-up to electionday, Romney, Obama andtheir allies were running nofewer than 18 commercialson Columbus TV stations.Adding to the clutter — andto the voter fatigue — wereattack ads in campaigns forjudgeships, the county sher-iff’s job and seats in the U.S.House and Senate.

Over the weekend, someObama opponents startedrunning some of the tough-est spots of the campaign.

Secure America Now, agroup led by former ArkansasGov. Mike Huckabee andother conservatives, showedObama on what was labeledas “Arab TV,” with Arabicwriting on screen, criticizinghim on foreign policy. “Timeto get rid of this sorry presi-dent,” an announcer said.

Another group, SpecialOps Opsec Education Fund,ran an ad accusing Obama oflying about the deadly attackon a U.S. diplomatic post inLibya and of leaking highlyclassified secrets, “endanger-ing real heroes and families.”

The effect was diluted byscores of other withering adsagainst Obama in the past sixmonths. They often ran backto back with spots bashingRomney with no less fervor.

“We either had to listento a guy we like a lot tell lies,or hear a guy we can’t standtell lies,” said Daniel Ave, 52,after voting Tuesday morningat North United MethodistChurch in Columbus.

By Michael Finnegan

Los Angeles Times

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Students showup to polls

Students took advantageof the local polling places of-fered around campus Tues-day.

The Catholic NewmanCenter bustled with studentsaround 3 p.m.

“We have been busilysteady all morning and withlines,” said Dan Schueler,deputy sheriff for the CliftonPrecinct. “Last spring we hadabout 70 voters, last fall wehad about 80 voters, and to-day we have had more than250 voters (at this point).”

The Newman Centerprecincts ended the night witha high turnout rate, whichwas expected, Schueler said.The Towers precinct had a to-tal of 261 voters and Cliftonhad 334 voters.

Despite the turnout,Schueler said there were nobig problems, but he tried tohelp any student who ran intoan issue.

“There have been smallproblems with misspellednames and people at thewrong precinct,” he said. “Ifthey live here now, then wealways try to get them tovote. We always tell themwhere they need to go.”

According to a news re-lease from the Kentucky Of-fice of the Secretary of State,Fayette County had receivedone complaint for vote buy-ing early Tuesday.

Jefferson County had re-ceived the most complaints,at 17, according to the newsrelease. Most complaints re-garded procedural problems.A total of 65 complaints hadbeen reported statewide.

Fayette County has 287precincts.

According to the Ken-tucky State Board of Elec-tions, there are 101,551 reg-istered Democrats in thecounty, 70,219 registeredRepublicans and 18,874 reg-istered as other. Of thosepeople registered to vote,

87,884 are male and 102,760are female.

The polling place for theBunker precinct on AudobonAvenue did not have as high

a voter turnout as the New-man Center.

“We are averaging aroundeight (voters) an hour,” saidbusiness management sopho-

more Trip Scully. “I am read-ing history right now, so ithas been pretty boring.”

Scully said three people isthe maximum amount he saw

in line at one time.“There are about 20 per-

cent older people,” he said.“Most are undergrad studentsor law students.”

By Nini Edwardsnedwards@kykernel.com

1 vote-buying complaint reported

PHOTO BY JONATHAN KRUEGER | STAFFLexington residents vote at Lexington Fire Station No. 6 on Tuesday. The Newman Center and other churches also served as polling places.

COLUMBUS, Ohio — A bigturnout, voting-machinebreakdowns and misinforma-tion about voter eligibility re-quirements snarled balloting atmany of the nation’s pollingplaces Tuesday, forcing Amer-icans determined to help de-cide the fiercely fought presi-dential race to wait as long asfive hours to vote.

The crush of voters ap-parently took many countyelection officials by surprise,despite heavy early voting inkey states such as Ohio thatmight have been a tipoff.

Allegations of votingrights, other irregularities and“inexcusable” election plan-ning flew in the swing statesof Ohio, Virginia and Florida.

Virginia and Florida heldpolls open until midnight forvoters who were in line whenthey were scheduled to close,but by then President BarackObama had been projected towin another term.

In Pennsylvania, a statethat Republicans hoped woulddeliver Mitt Romney a sur-prise upset, complaints pouredin of voters being falsely in-formed of photo ID require-ments that had been set asideby the courts. In Philadelphiaand Pittsburgh, dozens andperhaps many more voters’names were missing from therolls, creating suspicions of animproper purge of eligible vot-ers’ names.

Despite the lessons of re-cent presidential elections inwhich voters waited longhours at inner-city polls, incities big and small it wasdeja vu on Tuesday.

In Richland County, S.C.,Sharon Bruce waited for near-

ly five hours to vote. In Mis-souri, the secretary of state’soffice predicted turnout wouldbe 72 percent, up from 69 per-cent four years ago.

“We were just ham-mered,” said Johnson County,Kan., Election CommissionerBrian D. Newby.

Voters across Virginia en-dured long waits — up to fivehours in Chesapeake, said Bar-bara Arnwine, president of theLawyers Committee for CivilRights Under Law and leaderof the Election Protectioncoalition, which dispatched7,000 volunteers, including5,000 lawyers, to patrol theballoting nationwide.

“Everybody has known forat least the last two weeks howstrong the early voting hasbeen in the states that allowedit,” Arnwine said. “These otherstates have seen that andshould have been prepared fora massive voter turnout. In-stead, they have insufficientlystaffed — insufficient ma-chines, insufficient pollingsites. Inexcusable. It really re-quires that our nation look atand examine how we are ad-ministering our democracy.”

While results from storm-devastated New Jersey werenot expected to affect the fi-nal outcome, election watch-dogs labeled its votingprocess “a catastrophe” aftera late decision to allow emailvoting crashed computerservers and jammed fax linesin large counties. Facing apotentially huge disenfran-chisement of voters, Lt. Gov.Kim Guadagno extended bal-loting until 8 p.m. Friday.

Ohio’s system for verify-ing registered voters hasdrawn fire after 33,000 appli-cants for absentee ballots werewrongfully turned away. They

were mistakenly told that theywere not registered to vote —an oversight that state officialsblamed on a data-sharingproblem with the state Depart-ment of Motor Vehicles.

On the east side of Colum-bus, Ohio, many first-timevoters flocked to the Black-burn Recreation Center, in-cluding 21-year-old TyreshiaCody, a restaurant worker andpart-time college student.Cody said poll workers helpedsteer her through the confu-sion, because “I didn’t haveany idea what I was doing.”

Other young voters at theBlackburn center weren’t asfortunate, said Sarah Biehl,the voting location manager.

“There have been a lot ofyoung first-time voters com-ing in who are very excited tovote and they’re not on ourpoll books,” Biehl said.“They’re not in the rolls. Orthey’re in the wrong place. Forsome of them, the address isincorrect. We’ve had a lot ofissues and it’s not just youngpeople. We had other peoplewho had been voting here foryears, and now they’re not inthe poll books. And it’s notclear to me why.”

Biehl gestured toward acardboard box stuffed withmany of those voters’ provi-sional ballots, which mustpass tougher thresholds to becounted.

Dozens of voters inPhiladelphia and Pittsburghalso reported that they hadregistered and voted at theirpolling places in the past, butwere informed when they ar-rived Tuesday that theirnames weren’t on the rolls.

“We suspect that there’sbeen purging of voters that hasbeen unreported and not con-ducted properly under the stan-

dards required by theNational Voter Regis-tration Act,” Arnwinesaid. Under the law, if aregistered voter doesnot cast a ballot in apresidential election,his name is supposedto remain on the rollsfor four more years.

Election Day inOhio started with anew controversy. Re-publican Secretary ofState Jon Husted wasdrawn into court by aneleventh-hour lawsuit.Green Party congres-sional candidate BobFitrakis accusedHusted of skirtingstate law and contract-ing for vote-tabulationsoftware that wasn’t properlycertified and that contained a“back door” to rig the votes.

At a hearing, lawyers forHusted presented testimonythat the state’s electronicvotes — backed up by paperballots — are totaled at thecounty level. Hours later,U.S. District Judge GregoryFrost denied a request for atemporary restraining orderbarring use of the software,ruling that the allegationswere “speculative” and failedto show a “realistic possibili-ty” of harm.

“This suit was completelybaseless and caused unneces-sary concern and confusion,”Husted said in a written state-ment.

A court ruling delayingthe effect of Pennsylvania’snew photo identification re-quirement for voters wasn’tenough to snuff out its im-pact. The Advancement Proj-ect, a nonpartisan voting-rights group, partly blamedthe state for running adver-

tisements that left voters con-fused about what forms ofidentification were needed.

Also Tuesday, the groupreported that signs andleaflets falsely stating thatphoto ID is required to votewere posted and distributed atpolling places throughoutPennsylvania, including inPhiladelphia, DelawareCounty, York County andLehigh County.

Scattered complaintscame in from across the stateof voters being required toproduce photo IDs.

In Pinellas County, Fla.,Arnwine said, automated

phone calls from the supervi-sor of elections advised morethe 12,000 voters that Elec-tion Day was Wednesday be-fore the glitch was corrected.

She said two Fort Laud-erdale, Fla., precincts createdan appearance of disparatetreatment based on race. Oneprecinct had 24,000 regis-tered voters, 72 percent ofwhom were black, who wait-ed in a long line for one vot-ing machine.

At the other, with a farsmaller voting roll, of which27 percent are African-Amer-ican, 10 people waited fortwo machines, she said.

By Greg Gordon and Tony PughMcClatchy Newspapers

Voters endure delays, lines and misinformation

PHOTO BY TIM DOMINICK | THE STATE/MCTA crowd waits to vote at the Rosenwald Career Learning Center in Lexington,S.C., when the polls opened on Tuesday morning.

PHOTO BY ADAM PENNAVARIA | STAFFVoting judges Linda Huff, left, and Will Crawford give vote counters raw votes at the Fayette County Clerk’s Office on election night.

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CHRISTOPHER EPLING, Kernel cartoonist

PATRICK RIGGS, Kernel cartoonist

He was called a Muslim. He was called asocialist. The Birthers said he wasn’t born in

the United States. He waseven hung in effigy fromtrees.

Yet, he still won a sec-ond term.

Now all of PresidentBarack Obama’s critics canenjoy the universal healthcare he will provide.

They can live in a worldwhere Osama bin Laden isno longer a threat.

They still can drive carsmade by GM and Chrysler.They can also go to work in

the factories that have been reopened as a re-sult of the auto bailout.

Homosexuals can now openly fight forthe freedom of a nation that still denies themthe right to marry in most states.

Thanks to the DREAM Act, countless im-migrants can openly live and attend school inour nation without fear of deportation.

And poor students can continue to attendcollege with Pell Grants the president hasprovided.

Americans chose this path for our nationfour years ago and have now chosen to stayon it.

Mitch McConnell has wasted four yearson his pledge to make Obama a one-termpresident. McConnell is an intelligent andskilled man who could do great things for thisnation if he works with those on the otherside instead of always working against them.

Obama’s vision for America could not bestopped in the face of intense criticism from

other politicians, TV news pundits and SuperPacs like American Crossroads.

The voters have said loud and clear thatnow is not the time to go back to the failedpolicies of the Bush administration.

Now is also not the time for stagnationand gridlock.

Our government will still be dividedwhen the dust settles after this election. How-ever, if compromise can be reached, Americawill benefit.

Politicians like Ben Chandler, ScottBrown and Dick Lugar are now out of officebecause it is hard to survive as a moderate.

Even after Gabrielle Giffords was nearlykilled, after a near default on our loans, aftera U.S. ambassador was killed overseas andseveral devastating natural disasters, ourelected officials often still cannot work oreven sit together.

Neither those on the far right or far leftare as evil as the likes of Sean Hannity andKeith Olbermann attempt to portray thosethey disagree with.

The pundits said the young people whocame out for Obama in 2008 with the prom-ise of “Hope” and “Change” would not comeout to vote for him again.

Either a new group of voters jumped tosupport Obama, or the young voters came outagain because we have seen signs of thathope.

The election that ended Tuesday was asnasty as young people in this country can re-member.

Today, we can all begin working to makeour nation a better place going forward.

Gary Hermann is the Kernel’s opinionseditor. Email opinions@kykernel.com.

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AROUND THESTATE RESULTS

U.S. House District 1

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U.S. House District 2

BrettGuthrie

U.S. House District 3

JohnYarmuth

U.S. House District 4

ThomasMassie

U.S. House District 5

HalRogers

State Senate WinnersJulian Carroll (District 7)Kathy Stein (District 13)

State House WinnersRobert Damron (District 39)Stan Lee (District 45)Carl P. Rollins ll (District 56)Ryan Quarles (District 62)Sannie Overly* (District 72)Kelly Flood* (District 75)Ruth Ann Palumbo (District 76)Jesse Crenshaw* (District 77)Susan Westrom (District 79)Robert J. Benvenuti (District 88)

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