CBS Evening News - 2012-11-06 (Election Day)
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[0:00] Tonight, the next president of the
[0:03] United States. You're looking at him.
[0:05] The campaign ends and now the voters are
[0:08] making their choice.
[0:10] >> Tell them your address at the desk and
[0:11] they'll tell you where to go.
[0:12] >> The final polls are tight. We'll have
[0:15] reports from the swing states that will
[0:17] tip the balance. In the hurricane zone,
[0:20] voting is held in tents. And we'll ask
[0:23] the candidates about the great divide.
[0:26] Why have we become a red country and a
[0:29] blue country?
[0:30] >> Comprehensive election night coverage
[0:32] from our campaign 2012 team begins now.
[0:40] This is the CBS Evening News with Scott
[0:43] Py reporting tonight from CBS News
[0:46] election headquarters.
[0:48] Good evening. There is no more important
[0:51] day on the American calendar than this
[0:53] one, election day. Voters in every state
[0:56] are choosing a president after one of
[0:58] the tightest races ever. In just a few
[1:00] hours, we could know whether Barack
[1:02] Obama will get a second term or whether
[1:04] Mitt Romney will be the next president.
[1:07] We've been talking to voters all day
[1:09] long all over America as they left the
[1:11] polls today. And 52% told us that the
[1:15] country is on the wrong track. 46% said
[1:18] the country is headed in the right
[1:20] direction. And that's more than twice as
[1:22] many as the last time we asked four
[1:24] years ago. When we asked which quality a
[1:27] in a candidate is most important to
[1:29] them, 29% said a vision for the future.
[1:32] 28% said shares my values. 20% cares
[1:36] about me and 19% said the most important
[1:40] quality in a candidate is that he is a
[1:42] strong leader. Our entire campaign 2012
[1:45] team is