BARACK OBAMA WINS THE U.S. PRESIDENCY

President Barack Obama

The moment the polls closed in California, Oregon and Washington state, network 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 Hawaii to move into the White House in Washington DC. He is the first sitting senator since John Kennedy in 1960 to claim the presidency. Obama supporters are in the millions in Grant Park in Chicago where Obama is expected to speak.
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