'I Voted for McCain, the Democrat'

So says a guy from South Jersey.

At the Clayton Municipal Building in Gloucester County, Jeff Vanaman, 62, a retired schoolteacher who runs a glassblowing shop in Clayton, said, "the press elected Obama a year ago, and now they're trying to make it come true."

He said he had no idea what outcome to expect in the election, but he voted for McCain.

"There's too much government," he said. "The government needs to be off your back. It seems to me Obama wants to put more government on your back, and McCain doesn't want to change anything. For me, this was really a race between a Democrat and a socialist. And I voted for McCain, the Democrat."

Vanaman said, however, that he, like McCain, was "a Vietnam-era guy. I know what he went through. The man's got guts. John may be older, but I know what I've got with him."

Nearby, Elaine Mecchella, a realtor originally from South Philadelphia who has lived in South Jersey for years and recently moved into a 55-and-older community in Clayton, said she voted for McCain because she is Catholic and "abortion, that's the most important issue."