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A moment they've waited for long
By shortly after 11 p.m., when Sen. Barack Obama was declared the winner, the sound truck Eugene Burnett had driven through the streets of Babylon Township to rally voters to the polls was quiet.
The volunteers he had signed up to work polling stations in North Amityville and Wheatley Heights were hoarse from cheering in front of a television at an election-night party near the Obama for...
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