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Published 11/5/2008 by Robert Barnes and Michael D. Shear at Wash Post In Congress
Sen. Barack Obama of Illinois was elected the nation's 44th president yesterday, riding a reformist message of change and an inspirational exhortation of hope to become the first African American to ascend to the White House.
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