Washington - The Obama campaign was satisfied, so far, with
early results from several states and voting procedures, said David
Axelrod, chief political advisor to Democratic presidential hopeful
Barack Obama.
Speaking to CNN, Axelrod said things were going so well that his
main worry was that he 'can't exactly figure out what should be
giving me heartburn right now.'
As of 0130 GMT, Obama had been declared the winner of 103
Electoral College votes compared to 58 for Republican rival John
McCain, according to projections by at least two US broadcasters.
'The main thing is we would like to make the clock go faster and
get the numbers counted,' Axelrod said.
While both campaigns have thousands of lawyers waiting to
intervene in possible polling station disputes, there had been no
more than the usual number of problems, Axelrod said.
'Everything we see seems positive,' the strategist said. 'There
have been places where we needed to intervene to make sure there were
more voting machines or ballots. Just the normal stuff you'd see on
election day.'
The results so far made him feel positive about the 'possibility
of putting together a new coalition, breaking up the red state and
blue state paradigms.' He was referring to the deep divisions in the
country between conservative Republican, or red, states and liberal
Democrat, or blue, states.
Axelrod said Obama had played his traditional election day
basketball game with friends and staff late in the afternoon, near
his home in Hyde Park in Chicago.
Obama was preparing to address a massive rally, expected to be
attended by a million people, in Chicago's Grant Park later Tuesday,
when the results of the election are clear.
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