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Washington - Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama has captured the key states of Michigan and Wisconsin, US networks projected as soon as polls in those states closed Tuesday, while McCain's new wins included North Dakota and Kansas.

Michigan, a state with 17 electoral votes that has severely suffered from the faltering US economy, was once considered a possibility for McCain, but he pulled his campaign operation out of the state in September.

Warsaw - Americans, Europeans and Poles alike stayed out late Tuesday during an "Election Night Warsaw" event to cheer on the US presidential candidates and watch the results come in on big-screen CNN monitors.

The crowd - mostly supporting Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama - mingled and cast their votes in mock booths, arguing politics and the importance of this year's American elections across the world.

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."

Washington - Americans headed to the polls Tuesday in a historic presidential election as Republican John McCain and Democrat Barack Obama made a final push for votes in key battleground states.

McCain campaigned in Colorado where he claimed he had regained momentum and expressed confidence that he would defeat Obama when all the ballots are counted.

Chicago - Lines had formed by midday outside Chicago's Grant Park, where up to a million people are expected to gather to witness Illinois Senator Barack Obama's post-election rally late Tuesday.

Chicago residents Nick Boten, 37, and Scott Larson, 38, joined the line at around 12:30 pm, eight hours before organizers would let them into the park - and they weren't even near the front of the line, which got longer and longer through the course of the afternoon.