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November 4th, 2008 at 11:12 pm

Breaking News: Barack Obama Wins Presidency in Historic Victory

Barack Obama elected President of the United States, November 4, 2008

Democratic Presidential candidate Senator Barack Obama has won the 2008 Presidential election. He becomes the 44th President of the United States, the first black President, in an exciting and electrifying moment in U.S. history.

Mr. Obama’s election amounted to a national catharsis — a repudiation of a historically unpopular Republican president and his economic and foreign policies, and an embrace of Mr. Obama’s call for a change in the direction and the tone of the country. But it was just as much a strikingly symbolic moment in the evolution of the nation’s fraught racial history, a breakthrough that would have seemed unthinkable just two years ago.

Barack Obama elected President of the United States, November 4, 2008

Mr. Obama, 47, a first-term Democratic senator from Illinois, defeated Senator John McCain of Arizona, 72, a former prisoner of war who was making his second bid for the presidency. To the very end, Mr. McCain’s campaign was eclipsed by an opponent who was nothing short of a phenomenon, drawing huge crowds epitomized by the tens of thousands of people who turned out to hear Mr. Obama’s victory speech in Grant Park in Chicago.

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Barack Obama elected President of the United States, November 4, 2008