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PHOTO GALLERY: Watch parties at Blue Note, Second Baptist, more

Wednesday, November 5, 2008 | 11:09 a.m. CST; updated 12:33 p.m. CST, Wednesday, November 5, 2008

People celebrate the news of Barack Obama's election on Tuesday, Nov. 4, 2008, at the Blue Note. Several people gathered there to watch the election results throughout the night.   ¦  MARY MINCHEW/Missourian

BY Missourian Photo Staff

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People gathered to watch election results at The Blue Note, Second Baptist Church and The Tiger hotel on Tuesday night.

Democratic 9th District candidate Judy Baker greets supporters at an election watch party at The Tiger hotel in Columbia on Tuesday.   ¦  CAT SZALKOWSKI/Missourian

Doris Cheatum, left, awaits poll results during the 2008 presidential watch party at The Tiger hotel in Columbia on Tuesday evening.   ¦  CAT SZALKOWSKI/Missourian

Robert Brown, left, and his wife, Linda Lou, center, chat with family friend and Democratic candidate for Senate Chuck Graham at the 2008 presidential election watch party at The Tiger hotel in Columbia on Tuesday evening.   ¦  CAT SZALKOWSKI/Missourian

Martha McCraly, 47,cheers during a watch party at Second Baptist Church in Columbia on Tuesday after learning that Obama had been declared president-elect.   ¦  TRUTH LEEM

Columbia residents Sherri Givens, left, Donna Clayborne, center, and Deborah Chappell, right, celebrate upon the televised announcement that Barack Obama was the projected winner of the 2008 presidential watch party at The Tiger hotel in Columbia on Tuesday evening.   ¦  CAT SZALKOWSKI/Missourian

Brittney Cox, 22 leans on her fiance, Byron Wilson, 23, during a watch party at Second Baptist Church in Columbia.   ¦  TRUTH LEEM

From left to right, Grant Watkins, Stuart Peterson, Brian Roach and Anjali Pinto celebrate the news that Barack Obama was elected president on Nov. 4, 2008, at a watch party at the Blue Note.   ¦  MARY MINCHEW/Missourian

Obama supporters take pictures together to commemorate Election Day at Second Baptist Church in Columbia after Sen. Barack Obama was announced as the President-elect on Tuesday.
  ¦  TRUTH LEEM

Cortneyjo Washington, 24, left and Bessie Prude Smith, 52, center, cheer during a watch party at Second Baptist Church as Sen. Barack Obama was announced as the President-elect on Tuesday night.
  ¦  TRUTH LEEM

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