Good morning from Mesa, Arizona, where the air is clean, the streets are cleaner and every building looks like it was built in 1997.
We spent the early a.m. hanging out at a local polling station — the leasing center of the Mesa Royale, an "active adult community"— and met first-time voter Jessica Woods, a 21-year-old senior at Arizona State University and self-confessed "social conservative," who plans on running for state senate when she turns 35.
Woods said that she still has hope, even though many polls show Obama in the lead — "The polls show one thing, but Bush was down [before] he came out on top" — and also admitted that, despite being a pastor's daughter, she does plan on partying tonight should Mac pull it off. Read More...