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Barack Obama to be America's first black president- Americans tonight entrusted their fate for at least the next four years to Barack Obama, who made history by becoming the first African-American to win the US presidency.
Scenes of jubilation broke out among Democratic supporters as the US TV networks declared that the inexperienced but inspirational Democratic candidate had been elected president at around 4am GMT, after a momentous day that saw voters turn out in huge numbers.
As one state after another fell into the Democratic column, Obama clinched a transformational election, comparable to Franklin D Roosevelt's in 1932, John F Kennedy's in 1960 and Bill Clinton's in 1992.
In an early blow to John McCain's hopes, US television networks projected that Obama would win Pennsylvania, where the Republican badly needed to win to stand a chance of capturing the White House.
In another big setback for McCain, the Fox News network projected that Obama would win Ohio, the state that ultimately decided the 2004 race between George Bush and John Kerry.
No Republican has won the White House without Ohio. With Ohio and Pennsylvania in his pocket, Obama would be well on his way towards an overall majority.
Piling on the humiliation for the Republicans, Obama was projected to win Virginia by Fox News, the first time the state has voted for a Democrat in a presidential race since 1964, when Lyndon Johnson took the state.
Obama was projected to hold on to all the states the Democrats took in 2004, and win half a dozen or more of the battleground states that had been held by the Republicans.
The Democrat was also projected to win New Hampshire, Connecticut, Delaware, Washington DC, Illinois, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts and New Jersey.
McCain was projected to win Oklahoma, Tennessee, Kentucky, Georgia and South Carolina.
Despite the encouraging early results, the Obama campaign team urged caution, fearful that a late surge of voters casting their ballots on their way home might yet cause upsets in key states, as happened to the Democratic candidate, John Kerry, in 2004.
Fears that many white voters would fail, in the privacy of the polling booth, to vote for a black candidate appeared to be unfounded, suggesting that race is becoming less of an issue in the US.
Americans voted in record numbers throughout the day as they finally got the chance to turn their backs on eight years of George Bush and choose a new president after America's longest and costliest election campaign.
From the eastern shores of Virginia, across the industrial heartland of Ohio, and on to the Rocky mountain states of Colorado and New Mexico and beyond, poll workers and voters reported long lines and waits of several hours in the most eagerly anticipated US election for half a century.
Turnout was at levels not seen since women were first given the vote in 1920. Election officials predicted turnout would come close to 90% in Virginia and Colorado, and 80% in Ohio and Missouri.
Exit polls gave Obama double-digit leads in states that had been bitterly contested, and on which the outcome depended. The odds had been stacked against McCain from the start, linked, as he was, to President George Bush, with his near-record low popularity ratings, hostility towards the Iraq war and an impending recession.
But McCain managed to hold his own until mid-September, when the Wall Street crash saw Obama open up a commanding lead.
The next president will inherit horrendous economic problems that will limit the scope of his ambitions. Obama, in his final rallies, was already tempering his early promise of change with warnings about how he would have to curb some of his more ambitious plans, trying to lower expectations that he would be able to move quickly on health care and education reform.
The stock market experienced its biggest election day rally in 24 years on expectation of an Obama victory as the Dow Jones industrial averages surged 300 points, or 3%, to close at 9,625.28 points.
Exit polls nationwide provided an early suggestion that it was going to be Obama's night showing that the top concern of 62% of voters was the economy, the issue on which voters said they trusted him more than McCain and blame much of the financial crisis on the Bush administration.
Other early exit poll figures also appeared to be good indicators for Obama, with 57% saying they felt Obama was more in touch with them than the 40% who said the same about McCain.
Reflecting the intensity of the campaign, Obama and McCain put in a final burst of campaigning after casting their own votes. Obama made a final dash from his home in Chicago to neighbouring Indiana, which was Republican in 2004.
Reporters travelling with him reported that the candidate was in a subdued rather than celebratory mood, perhaps reflecting the news of the death of his grandmother on Monday. Obama told them that whatever happened, the campaign, the costliest in US history at over $1bn (£629m) as well as the longest, had been "extraordinary".
Early expectations were of record turnout levels, with the morning bringing long lines at polling stations. However, exit polls later in the day saw voters under 30, the target demographic of the Obama camp, voting at about the same levels as in 2004.
That would be a disappointment for the Obama camp which had been hoping that young voters would buck the tradition of showing enthusiasm for a candidate and then failing to turn out on the day.
Exit polls did chart a rise in African-American turn-out.
CNN, based on the exit polls, projected that Obama would win Vermont, no great surprise as it is traditionally Democrat
Independent election monitors reported sporadic instances of delayed openings of polling stations, broken voting machines, ballot shortages, voter confusion and occasional abuse in a number of battleground states including Florida, Ohio, Colorado, Pennsylvania and Virginia.
The McCain camp raised separate its own charges of irregularities accusing Black Panther activists holding night sticks of standing outside Philadelphia polling stations in an attempt to intimidate white voters.
McCain also accused out-of-state Obama volunteers of casting votes in Florida, and of voters casting multiple ballots in Florida.
In the battle for Congress, the Democrats picked up four seats to increase their majority in the Senate to 55 out of 100 seats. Democrats were hoping to win a Senate majority of 60, the magic number to override blocking tactics by Republicans. In the House, the Democrats were looking to tighten their majority to 261-174, from 235-199.
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Barack Obama, 44th president of the United States- As expected, the moment the polls closed in California, Oregon and Washington state, netwrok projections declared that Barack Obama would win all three.
And with those three, based on such calls, the senator from Illinois passed the 270-electoral-vote mark needed to win the presidency.
Not only will he be the nation's first biracial president, he also will be the first native of Kenya to move into the White House.
He is the first sitting senator to claim the ultimate political prize since John Kennedy in 1960 (as would have been John McCain).
There is one trend that continues -- Obama will be the fourth straight president with an Ivy League educational pedigree.
-- Don Frederick
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And Obama did it all in a country filled with people like this.
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Only liberals take joy in the destruction of this country. Losing hurts, don't it?
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Wow even though a black man has won the highest office in the land by vote of the people, you're still going to stick to the race card.
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Hush, BSAMS. I am trying hard to negotiate safe passage for you and your family out of the former free state of Ohio (soon to be renamed "Ohiostan") but your impudence in the face of the brilliance of the One makes it difficult.
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Only liberals take joy in the destruction of this country. Losing hurts, don't it? Let your anger flow.
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I note that the banner ads here are now for the University of Phoenix. I guess Google figures they'll get one of the re-education contracts under the new leadership.
Praise the Lord Obama, servant of the almight Allah!
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Only liberals take joy in the destruction of this country. Losing hurts, don't it? Let your anger flow. You're still on that? Sad, that this is pretty much all you've got left. You've spent forever working again him, now all you can do is sit back and watch Obama fix this country. You can let it out, though. Form your anger into that witty banter you do so well *cough*. I win again.
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Only liberals take joy in the destruction of this country. Losing hurts, don't it? Let your anger flow. You're still on that? Sad, that this is pretty much all you've got left. You've spent forever working again him, now all you can do is sit back and watch Obama fix this country. You can let it out, though. Form your anger into that witty banter you do so well *cough*. I win again. "Losing hurts, don't it?" wasnt that you that posted that? did I miss something?
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Wow even though a black man has won the highest office in the land by vote of the people, you're still going to stick to the race card.
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Master Perkins, please forgive BSAMS. He is still in shock from losing our country. Please give him another chance. I am sure that he will come to accept the fixes that Lord Obama has in store for us.
I, for one, welcome higher taxes, less jobs and being relieved of hearing viewpoints offensive to the Lord and the Light.
Praise Allah!
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Only liberals take joy in the destruction of this country. Losing hurts, don't it? Let your anger flow. You're still on that? Sad, that this is pretty much all you've got left. You've spent forever working again him, now all you can do is sit back and watch Obama fix this country. You can let it out, though. Form your anger into that witty banter you do so well *cough*. I win again. "Losing hurts, don't it?" wasnt that you that posted that? did I miss something? Your own post, maybe?
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Wow even though a black man has won the highest office in the land by vote of the people, you're still going to stick to the race card. Why not. It just elected a President. Praise Emperor Hussein Obama the First!
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Wow even though a black man has won the highest office in the land by vote of the people, you're still going to stick to the race card. Isn't that, within itself, playing the race card?
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Only liberals take joy in the destruction of this country. Losing hurts, don't it? Let your anger flow. You're still on that? Sad, that this is pretty much all you've got left. You've spent forever working again him, now all you can do is sit back and watch Obama fix this country. You can let it out, though. Form your anger into that witty banter you do so well *cough*. I win again. "Losing hurts, don't it?" wasnt that you that posted that? did I miss something? Your own post, maybe? You are the one with the anger problems. You are the one that still says the country is full of racists, when a black man is President, your still stuck in a rut. Shouldn't you be out celebrating? I know this has been emotional for you, but for most of us, it's not. Get over it.
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Btw, that last post was really a statement. I just put it in the form of a question for effect.
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Wow even though a black man has won the highest office in the land by vote of the people, you're still going to stick to the race card. Why not. It just elected a President. Praise Emperor Hussein Obama the First!
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Wow even though a black man has won the highest office in the land by vote of the people, you're still going to stick to the race card. Isn't that, within itself, playing the race card? You said this country was full of racists I proved otherwise. Unless you are inferring that he locked up the black vote because of his skin color, in which case I am disgusted by you. He got their vote on his merits.
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Wow even though a black man has won the highest office in the land by vote of the people, you're still going to stick to the race card. Isn't that, within itself, playing the race card? You said this country was full of racists I proved otherwise. Unless you are inferring that he locked up the black vote because of his skin color, in which case I am disgusted by you. He got their vote on his merits. What on Captain Planet are you talking about? Seriously.
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"I am convinced that this world is of no importance, and that the only people who care about dates are imbeciles and Spanish teachers." -- Jean Arp, 1921
"If Jesus came back and saw what people are doing in his name, he would never never stop throwing up." - Max von Sydow, "Hannah and Her Sisters"
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Wow even though a black man has won the highest office in the land by vote of the people, you're still going to stick to the race card. Isn't that, within itself, playing the race card? You said this country was full of racists I proved otherwise. Unless you are inferring that he locked up the black vote because of his skin color, in which case I am disgusted by you. He got their vote on his merits. What on Captain Planet are you talking about? Seriously. Wait, are you saying that I'm pulling the race card when I point out that Obama won in a country filled with people who think like balloonknot? First, let's move past the fact that I'm commemorating him, not defending him. You know that "the race card" is, by definition, something used in a debate, right? You also realize, I hope, that there is no debate here, racial or otherwise. Barack Obama won the debate over an hour ago by almost 200 electoral votes. You lost. g-man lost. balloonknot lost. If you'd like, though, you can always post "I WIN!!" again. I'm sure it'll mean something to you. And maybe Pariah. There is no more debate. And there isn't a race card to play. The combo's been broken.
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you said Obama is going to save the country, how is that a loss for me if you really believe that?
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And Obama did it all in a country filled with people like this. Apparently not "filled"
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And Obama did it all in a country filled with people like this. Apparently not "filled" It was a pretty decisive victory.
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And Obama did it all in a country filled with people like this. Apparently not "filled" As I told Jason in an earlier thread, he has spent his life being told by these fear mongers that the majority of white people are racist, that's why he sees it everywhere, even this election hasn't opened his eyes.
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Wow even though a black man has won the highest office in the land by vote of the people, you're still going to stick to the race card. Isn't that, within itself, playing the race card? No Jason. There is no gray area. With every new post you make, you're becoming more and more like Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, Jeremiah Wright, etc.. I'm profoundly disappointed.
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And Obama did it all in a country filled with people like this. Apparently not "filled" It was a pretty decisive victory. Give Jason a break. He spent his entire life being told by people like Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton that all his problems were caused by the white racism that permeates our nation. It's going to take some time for him to let go of that, if ever.
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The lady on CBS just said Obama brought back the power of the spoken word.
(much like Hitler, but I digress)
Basically saying "He's so articulate"
What a racist bitch, komrades.
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