Jerry Two-Times

They call me Jerry Two-Times because I say everything twice.

Jerry Canavan, a Duke graduate student who was waiting for the train with his wife, Jaimee Hills, also volunteered for Obama, canvassing in North and South Carolina.

"It just feels like starting over," Canavan said of Obama's election. "It's just been an unending series of disasters since we started paying attention to politics, so this just feels like starting over."

Canavan and Hills, who works at the Regulator Bookshop in Durham, will be staying in Arlington, Va., with a friend.

"We're just going to walk over the bridge from Arlington and see how far we can get," Hills said.