Finally Obama Rules..!!!
Barack Obama won, but the real victor was America. The planet's best-loved and often-reviled nation upheld the noble ideals of its founding fathers on Tuesday by electing a mixed-race African-American as its 44th president, redeeming itself in the eyes of the world and its own people.
He will be the first black chief executive of a nation that has had 43 white anglo-saxon presidents in its 234-year history.
For good measure, Obama also won the nationwide popular vote. The numbers were still coming in but he appeared to have bagged more than 50 per cent of the vote, the first Democrat to do so after Jimmy Carter.
The new president will be sworn in on Inauguration Day, January 20, 2009.
TOI reports - WHY OBAMA WON
* Anti-incumbency, anti-Bush factor – America wanted change from economic worries and war fatigue.
* Obama positioned himself as a uniter, not an angry black man who scares whites; attracted white voters
* Changing demographics – more black, Asian, Hispanic voters, and more younger, collegiate voters
* Democrats better organized; Obama built on Howard Dean’s work to perfect a superb grassroots organisation
* Obama used technology better to raise more money and reach the connected much more than Republicans
* Personal charisma and youthfulness. Age advantage of a man who would have been America’s oldest president if he won
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