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  • Transcript: President-elect Barack Obama’s election night speech

    Transcript: President-elect Barack Obama’s election night speech

    November 6, 2008

    Full text of Barack Obama's speech November 4, 2008 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...

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  • OPINION: The strong wind at his back

    OPINION: The strong wind at his back

    November 6, 2008

    Well, the pundits were wrong. White voters didn't change their minds in the voting booth. Barack Obama's victory proves that some analysts gave too much weight to race, not only in gauging today's opinions but also...

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  • What a historic moment!

    What a historic moment!

    November 6, 2008

    On Nov. 4, 2008, it happened — Barack Obama became our first African American president. What an historic moment this is. A nation that held people of African descent in bondage for 300 years and denied...

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  • OPINION: 10 things to consider in the voting booth

    OPINION: 10 things to consider in the voting booth

    November 4, 2008 By Norman Markowitz

    1. The world is quite likely on the brink of a global depression. “Free market” economic policies are the key to understanding this crisis. Barack Obama has rejected these policies. John McCain now blames individuals, greedy...

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  • Labor, Virginia and Obama

    Labor, Virginia and Obama

    November 4, 2008

    RICHMOND, Va. — Members of more than a dozen AFL-CIO unions packed the Communications Workers Local 2201 union hall here, Nov. 2, divided up into 30 teams and fanned out across north Richmond to get out...

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