OBAMA WINS!
Barack Obama wins presidency, making history
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By Mark Z. Barabak
Los Angeles Times
November 4, 2008
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REPORTING FROM LOS ANGELES — Barack Obama, the son of a father from Kenya and a white mother from Kansas, was elected the nation’s 44th president Tuesday, breaking the ultimate racial barrier to become the first African American to claim the country’s highest office.
A nation that was founded by slave owners and seared by civil war and generations of racial strife delivered a smashing electoral college victory to the 47-year-old first-term senator from Illinois, who forged a broad, multiracial, multiethnic coalition. His victory was a leap in the march toward equality: When Obama was born, people with his skin color could not even vote in parts of America, and many were killed for trying. (Click on ‘Continue Reading’ for more)
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