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No place like Grant Park for Democratic victory

 

Published 11/9/2008 at L.A. Times - Politics

The story of the park makes for a fitting metaphor for the Republican Party when Obama celebrants danced on it election night. > When those 200,000 or however-many Barack Obamians gathered in Chicago's Grant Park late Tuesday to celebrate the election of America's first African American president, they were literally and figuratively standing on historic ground. (link)

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