Here is Barack Obama Acceptance Speech Nov. 4, 2008
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Obama takes Pennsylvania, opens big lead in early states –Key states of Florida, Missouri remain too close to call, NBC News projects 04 Nov 2008 Democratic Sen. Barack Obama opened a big lead in the Electoral College in the presidential election Tuesday night as NBC News projected that he had won Pennsylvania, which both parties had targeted as critical to winning the race, along with several other large Eastern and Midwestern states. NBC projected that Obama had also won Massachusetts, New Jersey and his home state of Illinois, three states with hefty electoral vote hauls. He also won Connecticut, Delaware, the District of Columbia, Maine, Maryland, New Hampshire and Vermont, the network’s political unit projected. Obama was also leading in Ohio, another major prize, although NBC News said the results were still too early to call definitively.
John McCain has won South Carolina, as well as Oklahoma, Tennessee, West Virginia and Kentucky. The Republican nominee also has an advantage in Georgia, while Obama appears to have a lead in Virginia and Indiana, two Republican states Obama is hoping to turn blue this year. Those races are too early to call.
Warner Triumphs in Va. Senate Race 04 Nov 2008 Democrat Mark Warner has defeated his fellow ex-governor Jim Gilmore for a Republican-held Senate seat in Virginia. The win gives Democrats control of both of Virginia’s Senate seats for the first time since 1970.
US elections: the world has no vote but it knows who it wants 04 Nov 2008 Barack Obama goes into today’s vote with the overwhelming backing of the world beyond America’s borders in a presidential race that has gripped audiences like no election before. Obamamania is at fever pitch across Europe, where his ratings regularly exceed 80 per cent. Germany, the Netherlands and France form the cheer-leading front row. Not since John F. Kennedy has France so fallen for a presidential candidate; if citoyens had the vote, Mr Obama would trounce Mr McCain by 72 points.
George W. Bush hits new low in approval rating 04 Nov 2008 As Americans are turning out to the polls in record numbers, George W. Bush’s approval rating, according to the latest CBS News tracking poll, has dipped to 20 percent, the lowest ever recorded for a president [sic]. His disapproval rating of 72 percent matches his all-time high, reached last month.
Ohio GOP Files Complaint Over Provisional Ballots 04 Nov 2008 Ohio Republicans have asked a federal judge in Columbus to require that provisional ballots be verified and counted the same way statewide. The legal action filed Tuesday by the Ohio GOP updates an earlier Republican lawsuit against Ohio’s top elections official, Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner, a Democrat.
Judge orders Virginia to preserve absentee ballots from military –Lawsuit asks that any ballots received by November 14 be counted 04 Nov 2008 A federal judge on Tuesday ordered Virginia election officials to hold on to late-arriving absentee ballots from members of the military stationed overseas. Republican John McCain’s presidential campaign has sued the state election board… Judge Richard Williams ordered a hearing on the lawsuit next Tuesday afternoon in Richmond, and said in the meantime, those ballots will be set aside and preserved.
Missing ballots, balky machines hamper voting in key states –Voters in Florida, Ohio and Virginia are among those reporting long lines and problems with ballots and voting machines. Voting-rights groups sound the alarm. 04 Nov 2008 Heavy voter turnout overwhelmed polling places in the key battleground states of Florida, Ohio and Virginia, prompting tens of thousands of complaints about long waits, missing ballots and malfunctioning voting machines.
Voting Problems Roundup: Election Morning Problems Are Popping Up In Several Key States 04 Nov 2008 Just a few hours into Election Day, problems are popping up in several key states with long lines and broken machines all against the backdrop of what is expected to be the largest turnout in history. As of right now, one national voter protection group says it has received 27,000 reports of problems.
Virginia: The New Florida? By Andrew Gumbel 04 Nov 2008 In the crush of the first few hours of Election Day, the crucial swing state of Virginia is emerging as the country’s number-one voting trouble spot. As of 10:30 am ET, more than two dozen polling places across the state were reported to be close to a standstill because of machine failures, lack of back-up paper ballots and other problems. Dozens of other locations were experiencing abnormal delays and long lines, raising serious questions about the ability of Virginia voters to exercise their democratic rights before the scheduled close of voting at 7 pm.
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McCain fights for GOP strongholds as Obama wins Pennsylvania
By Steven Thomma | McClatchy Newspapers
WASHINGTON — Americans stormed to the polls Tuesday in what could be record numbers, anxious about their country and eager to settle the historic election battle between Democrat Barack Obama and Republican John McCain.
Obama scored early, taking New Hampshire and Pennsylvania and shutting down McCain’s hopes of picking up the only two Democratic states where he had a realistic chance of upsets.
McCain was left to defend states that went Republican in the past. He took Georgia and North Dakota, denying Obama hoped-for steals in the South and the Plains.
However, McCain found himself fighting to hold several several that were too close to call, including Florida, Indiana, Missouri and Virginia.
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Obama shutting off McCain’s hopes, taking Ohio, Pennsylvania and Iowa
By Steven Thomma | McClatchy Newspapers
WASHINGTON — WASHINGTON _ Barack Hussein Obama was elected the 44th president of the United States on Tuesday, swept to victory by an anxious country eager to change course at home and abroad.
Obama, 47, becomes the first African-American in U.S. history to win the presidency and the first from the generation that came of age after the turbulence of the 1960s.
While close, his victory suggested a new political order in the making, built by young people drawn to politics for the first time by his campaign andmarked by his pushinto some states such as Virginia where Democrats hadn’t won in decades.
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Obama wins presidency; Democrats widen majority in Congress
By Steven Thomma | McClatchy Newspapers
WASHINGTON — Barack Hussein Obama was elected the 44th president of the United States on Tuesday, swept to victory by an anxious country eager to change course at home and abroad.
Obama, 47, becomes the first African-American in U.S. history to win the presidency and the first from the generation that came of age after the turbulence of the 1960s. He built his campaign on a mastery of the Internet as an organizing tool that will change the way presidential campaigns are run forever. His biracial background reflects the changing demographic face of America in the 21st Century. And his pickup of formerly Republican states in the South, Midwest and West reflect a changing political order in the making.
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Obama wins presidency; Democrats widen majority in Congress
By Steven Thomma | McClatchy Newspapers
WASHINGTON — Barack Hussein Obama was elected the 44th president of the United States on Tuesday, swept to victory by an anxious country eager to change course at home and abroad.
Obama, 47, becomes the first African-American in U.S. history to win the presidency and the first from the generation that came of age after the turbulence of the 1960s. He built his campaign on a mastery of the Internet as an organizing tool that will change the way presidential campaigns are run forever. His biracial background reflects the changing demographic face of America in the 21st Century. And his pickup of formerly Republican states in the South, Midwest and West reflect a changing political order in the making.
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