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Published 11/5/2008 by Stephanie McCrummen at Wash Post Elections
KOGELO, Kenya, Nov. 5 -- The news arrived in this rural village as the sun rose Wednesday, the voice of CNN anchor Wolf Blitzer drifting across a gathering of several hundred people who'd hoped for months, prayed for hours and finally stayed up all the cool night watching U.S. presidential electi...
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