Obama Elected 44th President of the United States!
Posted by Sassy Smith at 6:15 AM on November 6, 2008
Barack Obama is the first African-American President of the United States – shattering more than 200 years of history! Obama received the 270 electoral votes he needed to be elected at 11 p.m. ET. CHANGE we can believe in!
Velma Pate, a poll worker near Chicago, is old enough to remember segregation in America – a time she recalls, when she was not able to drink from the same water fountain as a white person. She said, "I want to tell the American people that today we see God's hand and the sun is now shining in the darkness."
From NBC:
Obama, who led in nearly all public opinion polls, and McCain both launched get-out-the-vote efforts that led to long lines at polling stations in a contest that Democrats were also hoping would help them expand their majorities in both houses of Congress.
Americans voted in numbers unprecedented since women were given the franchise in 1920. Secretaries of state predicted turnouts approaching 90 percent in Virginia and Colorado and 80 percent or more in big states like Ohio, California, Texas, Virginia, Missouri and Maryland.
At New Shiloh Church Ministries on Mastin Lake in Huntsville, Ala., Stephanie Lacy-Conerly brought along a chair, expecting to stay for hours.
“It’s exciting,” she said. “It’s an historical moment.”
Indeed it is! This is no doubt a very proud moment for Michelle Obama and their children. It would have been so wonderful if Barack's grandmother had been able to hang on, but I'm guessing she's smiling down on her grandson.
A crowd nearing 100,000 people gathered in Grant Park in Chicago, awaiting an address by Obama. Hundreds of thousands more — Mayor Richard Daley said he would not be surprised if a million Chicagoans jammed the streets — were watching on a large television screen outside the park.
Congratulations!
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