youtube.com - 11/5/2008
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The scene outside the White House on November 4, 2008, after Obama's Victory Speech.
online.wsj.com - 10/30/2008
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There is something odd -- and dare I
say novel -- in American politics about the crowds...
that have been greeting Barack Obama on his campaign trail. Hitherto, crowds have not been a prominent feature of American politics. We associate them with the ...
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Obama and the Politics of Crowds
chicagotribune.com - 11/5/2008
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chicagotribune.com —
President-elect Barack Obama, Michelle Obama, Jill Biden, and
Vice President-elect Joe Biden celebrate their campaign victory with...
the crowd of supporters in Grant Park during Obama's election night rally in Chicago.
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Talking Points Memo —
9:30 AM ... One thing you may have missed last night. Late in the evening a crowd of about a thousand people started gathering outside the White House to cheer Obama's victory. There was some initial chatter in the right-wing media that it was a 'mob' of some sort that was 'surrounding' the White House. But actual reporting showed it was nothing of the sort. A spontaneous celebration. Here's some brief video from last night on CNN ...
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Tennessee Guerilla Women —
The election party captured on the video below looks something like the one in my house last night, which is why I'm moving at a snail's pace and am so very slow to post today. (Did anyone else think CNN was the last to call every win?) Spontaneous celebrations apparently broke out all over the nation world last night. After Barack Obama was proclaimed the President Elect, some thousand or so exuberant folks even gathered on the streets outside the White House for a little preemptive moving party! (2nd video) ...
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