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It's Judgment Day: Voters Finally Have Their Say

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Tuesday is Election Day and American voters are casting their ballots to decide the balance of power in Washington.

But millions didn't want to wait to have their voices heard, with early voting topping 18 million in 32 states.
    
With 36 governors' races, 435 House seats up for grabs, and control of the U.S. Senate hanging in the balance, the biggest message for many Americans is disappointment with the White House.

"This is really the last chance for America to pass judgment on the Obama administration and on its policies. And the president himself said he's not on the ballot, but his policies are," former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney said.

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Although the Affordable Care Act is arguably the president's single biggest achievement, Americans are less than thrilled with the controversial legislation.

The latest numbers from an Associated Press poll show only 3 in 10 say they support Obamacare, while 48 percent oppose it.

Republicans have run more ads against Obamacare than on any other issues - about 23,000 in just two weeks in October.

"It…includes the violation of the most fundamental promise of Obamacare to let people keep their doctor and their insurance if they want to keep it," Romney charged.

Many Democrats have been trying to distance themselves from Obamacare, President Barack Obama, and his low approval ratings.
    
But some of them are sticking up for the president.

"He's taken us from the worst economic crisis that we've faced since the Great Depression through 55 straight months of job growth in the private sector. That is the longest sustained period of job growth in American history," Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz of Florida, chair of the Democratic Party, said.

Voters, however, clearly don't see it that way. An ABC News-Washington Post poll shows 7 in 10 Americans rate the nation's economy negatively and just 28 percent say it's getting better.

With the campaigning, analyzing and talking are finally over, and it's now up to the voters casting ballots here at the polls. Close Senate races in two states with early poll closing times - North Carolina and New Hampshire - could provide an early glimpse into the outcome.

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Efrem Graham
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Efrem Graham is an award-winning journalist who came to CBN News from the ABC-owned and operated station in Toledo, Ohio. His most recent honor came as co-anchor of the newscast that earned the station’s morning news program its first Emmy Award. Efrem was born in Jersey City, New Jersey, but his formal television and journalism career was born across the Hudson River in New York City. He began as an NBC Page and quickly landed opportunities to work behind-the-scenes in local news, network news, entertainment, and the network’s Corporate Communications Department. His work earned him the NBC