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• Barack Obama's election: A mom

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    President-elect Barack Obama and vice president-elect Joe Biden meet with the Transition Economic Advisory Board in Chicago. (Getty Images / November 7, 2008.

    For millions of Americans, 11:01 p.m. Eastern Standard Time, Tuesday, Nov. 4, marked a moment of unbridled joy and disbelief that American history had brought the nation to this night. Barack Obama became the first black candidate elected to the nation's highest office.
    
    Across the country, millions of Americans cheered in their homes, ran out into streets, honked horns and openly wept. Tens of thousands filled a Chicago park to hear Obama speak. Television pundits spoke of a country that had long wrestled with race knocking down a high wall.
    
    To many, it was moment they thought they'd never see.

    

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• President-elect Barack Obama a

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    President-elect Barack Obama and vice president-elect Joe Biden meet with the Transition Economic Advisory Board in Chicago. (Getty Images / November 7, 2008
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• The Candidates

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    Barack Obama, the first African-American nominee of a major party, argues that his life experience, from Hawaii and Indonesia to Chicago and Washington, makes him the best candidate to change politics as usual. Born to a free-spirited white mother and a black Kenyan absentee father, Mr. Obama spent his childhood in Hawaii and Indonesia. As part of a younger generation of black leaders, he represents the success — but not the historic struggle — of the civil rights movement. And his upstart campaign for the Democratic nomination, using a mantra of hope and change combined with tech-savvy, unconventional organization, helped him surpass one of America's most prominent political establishments, the Clintons, to become the first African-American to lead a major party ticket. Senator John McCain has worked to build a reputation of taking no one‘s orders but his own. Mr. McCain‘s image as a maverick remains a central justification for his presidential campaign, though that image has been diminished somewhat by his efforts to mend fences with some Republicans during his quest to become president. The son and grandson of Navy admirals, Mr. McCain went from the bottom of his class at the Naval Academy to war hero after refusing preferential treatment and enduring five years as a prisoner of war after his plane was shot down over Hanoi in 1967. His military experiences continue to inform his views about war.
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• Barack Obama accepts nominatio

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    Senator Barack Obama accepted the presidential nomination of the Democratic Party in front of 80,000 people Thursday night at Invesco Field in Denver.

    The speech by Mr. Obama loomed as arguably the most important of his campaign to date. It was an opportunity to present himself to Americans who were just now beginning to tune in on this campaign, to make the case against Mr. McCain and to offer what many Democrat said he has failed to offer to date: a idea of what Mr. Obama stood for, beyond a promise of change.

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• OBAMA PRESUMPTIVE NOMINEE

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    Obama has made history?

    Yup sho nuf!

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