November 6, 2008
While the world celebrates Barack Obama's historic victory over John McCain, many ballot measures on the state level also deserve our attention (overview). Most controversial among them were the decisions on same-sex marriage and abortion that were up in several states. Both decisions are s...
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Homer Simpson Tries to Vote for Obama - Watch a funny movie here...
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In an unofficial sampling, many Africans told VOA they support the election of Barack Obama as the United States’ 44th president. Senator Obama is the first African-American to hold the office. MALAWI “I’d like to congratulate Barack Obama for winning, for entering the White House. You ...
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euphoric is the word to describe washington dc last night. I was done with my last TV interview at around one in the morning. When I walked out of the studio I was really surprised to see dozens of cars driving around honking their horns, and people running around the streets screaming and dancin...
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OBAMA IS US PRESIDENT - ELECT I watched it all unfold for over 6 hours step by step. Billions of people all over the world also stayed up all through the night to watch this history unfold. I am reliably informed that even the American Embassy in the UK did not close and over 2,000 people [...]...
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Barack Obama moved in the astonishing month of January 2008 from being an outsider and then a surprise winner of the Iowa caucus to the candidate who could - even in the wake of the intense, knife-edge drama of "super Tuesday", 5 February 2008 - beat Hillary Clinton to win the Democratic...
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America speaks; now for the real test. The Telegraph (en)" ... For several weeks now, opinion pollsters have predicted this outcome; but it is no less extraordinary for all that. The lengthy queues of voters - the biggest turnout in an American election in 100 years - were testament to the galvanisi...
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With almost all states called, we have a pretty good picture of the electoral map. It looks like this: Though not quite the stuff of Democrats' wildest fantasies (which featured Georgia and even Montana), this is about as good as they could have hoped for. It is already being called a &quo...
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The networks are calling crucial state after crucial state for Obama, and Nate Silver at fivethirtyeight.com has just called the whole race. Upsets can always happen, but I think we can rely on his judgement. There will be more on this historic result tomorrow at openUSA. ...
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