huffingtonpost.com - 11/5/2008
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Even if your candidate didn't win tonight, you have reason to celebrate. We all do.
Ten months ago, when Obama won in Iowa, we had a glimpse of what was possible and what became real tonight. What I wrote then about one state is now true for the whole country:
Barack Obama's impressive ...
tnr.com - 11/5/2008
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tnr.com —
The Bradley Effect. "God damn America!" "Kill him!"
"Why can't he close the deal?" "Isn't he a...
Muslim?" The "terrorist fist jab." The New Yorker cover. Michelle's chimerical "whitey" speech. After all of the aggrieved musings and smug insistences, the ...
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Let's Celebrate
huffingtonpost.com - 11/7/2008
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huffingtonpost.com —
Along with Barack Obama (and the other winners
I've written about ), there was another big winner...
on election day: democracy. Based on initial numbers, it looks like over 133 million people turned out to vote on Tuesday -- 11 million more than ...
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Arianna Huffington: Tuesday's Second Biggest Winner: ...
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Obama’s Election: A Sea Of Shattered Assumptions (News And Weblog Roundup)
The Moderate Voice —
... His campaign used the Internet, e-mail, and social-networking sites as community-organizing tools more effectively than any campaign in history. On fundraising, Obama opted out of public financing – the first nominee to do so since the advent of the system in 1976 – and raised at least $600 million from more than 3 million donors, another feat that defied expectations
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HERE’S A CROSS SECTION OF WEBLOG OPINION:
–Arianna Huffington:
Bush’s re-election in 2004 was a monument to the power of ...
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