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Posted, 11: 17p.m. One day after Americans took Barack Obama a black man as their following president, Maha occupier and mother of two boys Deborah Bridgman a black woman told this: `` Oh, my God. Can this be existent? ''

Omahan Debutante Bridgman states she experiences that her balloting worked history. BRAD DAVIS/The Ballot Box

Bridgman, who before the election stated Obama 's climb would open the eyes of African-Americans to the possibilities in their lives, voted along with 52 percentage of her fellow Omaha occupiers for Obama.

The Douglas County Election Commissioner on Wednesday stated his office still was numerating 9, 000 absentee ballots, and would not declare a victor in Nebraska 's Second Congressional Territory until perhaps following hebdomad.

A bulk of electors in Douglas County, which covers the metropolis of Maha, voted for Obama, but occupants of suburban Sapry County, which does upwards a little, but not inconsequent, component of the 2nd Territory, selected Can McCain.

The up-to-the-minute count demoed Obama dragging McCain by 569 shoot down of to a higher degree 250, 000 cast. Up for grabs is the Omaha country 's one electoral balloting.

Whether or not Obama wins the 2nd Dominion, Bridgman told her ballot worked history.

`` It counts, '' she told.

Before the election, Bridgman holded buyed an Obama bumper pricker she affixed to her gray minivan. It read: `` African Americans for Obama. ''

Wednesday, Bridgman took a Felt-tip pen to the thorn.

It now reads: `` Americans for Obama. ''

- BY BRAD Davis