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Barack Hussein Obama was elected the 44th president of the United States on Tuesday, as the country chose him as its first black chief executive. >
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Obama Wins Election
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The Early Word: The Way He Won
The Caucus —
“If there is anyone out there who still doubts that America is a place where all things are possible, who still wonders if the dream of our founders is alive in our time, who still questions the power of our democracy, tonight is your answer,” Barack Obama told a crowd of 250,000 last night in Chicago who gathered to watch him step into history as the first black president-elect of the United States. The story of the long presidential race is a familiar one, but how did Mr. Obama — the 47-year-old, first-term senator from Illinois — do it? The Times’s Adam Nagourney, Jim ...
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Why Obama won
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Yahoo! News: Politics News 11/5/2008
Politico - Barack Obama’s sweeping victory as president of the United States sends him to the White House to face what may be the worst national financial crisis since Franklin Roosevelt’s election in 1932.
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CNN Political Ticker 11/5/2008
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