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Tears of joy greet Obama election
November 7, 2008CHICAGO — With the nation and world watching, lights sparkled across Grant Park on Election Night as more than 240,000 Americans of all races and backgrounds gathered to hear President-elect Barack Obama call on them to...
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Transcript: President-elect Barack Obama’s election night speech
November 6, 2008Full 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
November 6, 2008Well, 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!
November 6, 2008On 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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Labor, Virginia and Obama
November 4, 2008RICHMOND, 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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