The crowd at the Hotel Fort Des Moines has grown to an excess of 500, all of whom initiated a two-minute long string of applause, shouts, and hugs at the news of CNN projecting Obama to be the next president.

"I have never been more excited about anything political," Shanna Johnson, a Des Moines Obama support said. "We have come so far and this is only the beginning of really amazing things. America is changing. It's changing."

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