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US Presidential Election Day
America heads to the polls to decide between Barack Obama and Mitt Romney
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Supporters of President Barack Obama cheer as Obama wins their state, at a victory party in Manchester, New Hampshire.Credit:The New York Times
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Voters wait to cast their vote in MinnesotaCredit:Jim Gehrz/AP
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William Wright and India Johnson wait on line to vote in Norfolk VirginiaCredit:Amanda Lucier/AP
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Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney talks with members of the traveling press aboard his campaign plane en route to Boston, Massachusetts.Credit:Justin Sullivan/Getty Images/AFP
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Volunteers make calls to get out the Obama vote in ColoradoCredit:Matthew Staver/NTY
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Ted Hommel reacts as the machine takes his ballot in New YorkCredit:Chang W Lee/NYT
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Mitt Romney and his running mate Paul Ryan at an airport in OhioCredit:Josh Haner/NYT
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Rockaway resident and firefighter Terence O'Donnell marks his ballot in a makeshift tent set up as a polling place in the storm ravaged suburb of Rockaway New YorkCredit:Mario Tama/AFP
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Mike Wigart with his surfboard votes at the Los Angeles County lifeguard headquarters in CaliforniaCredit:Kevork Djansezian/Getty
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Mitt Romney and his running mate Paul Ryan order at a Wendy's restaurant in OhioCredit:Charles Dharapak/AP
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Nick Wardle makes calls to voters urging them to vote for President Barack Obama in CaliforniaCredit:Jim Wilson/NYT
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Ramonita Santana prepares to cast a ballot in New York on Election Day 2012.Credit:Angel Franco/NYT
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Voters fill out ballots at a polling station in New Hampshire on Election Day 2012Credit:Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg
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Miles Burkett and his brother Sullivan play games on consoles while their parents to cast ballots in Ohio on election Day 2012Credit:Ty Wright/Bloomberg
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Voters cast their ballots at a polling location in Chicago on Election DayCredit:Daniel Acker/Bloomberg
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Voters cast their ballots at a polling place inside St. Leo's Catholic Church in Baltimore on Election Day.Credit:AP/Patrick Semansky
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Leslie Fabian concentrates as she votes electronically inside at the 24-hour Su Nueva Laundromat in Chicago's 13th Ward in Chicago.Credit:AP/Charles Rex Arbogast
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President Barack Obama makes calls to campaign volunteers from a field office in Chicago on Election Day 2012Credit:Jason Reed/Reuters
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Mitt Romney and his wife Ann prepare to cast their ballots in Massachusetts on Election Day 2012Credit:Stephen Crowley/NYT
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Mitt Romney kisses his wife Ann Romney after casting their ballots in Massachusetts on Election Day 2012Credit:Stephen Crowley/NYT