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Received: by 10.150.91.20 with SMTP id o20mr6628784ybb.27.1226530110227; Wed, 12 Nov 2008 14:48:30 -0800 (PST) Return-Path: <nyaronya...@gmail.com> Received: from yw-out-2324.google.com (yw-out-2324.google.com [74.125.46.29]) by mx.google.com with ESMTP id 22si16158093yxr.1.2008.11.12.14.48.29; Wed, 12 Nov 2008 14:48:29 -0800 (PST) Received-SPF: pass (google.com: domain of nyaronya...@gmail.com designates 74.125.46.29 as permitted sender) client-ip=74.125.46.29; Authentication-Results: mx.google.com; spf=pass (google.com: domain of nyaronya...@gmail.com designates 74.125.46.29 as permitted sender) smtp.mail=nyaronya...@gmail.com; dkim=pass (test mode) header...@gmail.com Received: by yw-out-2324.google.com with SMTP id 9so299475ywe.35 for <str8talk-ug2011@googlegroups.com>; Wed, 12 Nov 2008 14:48:29 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to :subject:mime-version:content-type; bh=IVXXO2Tgr0K05GB7C86UCxyC1YKVXjS7rHiabmBNklA=; b=hElo+zG0GmI0aL6Rl586Rl/TSgUf6ak78rz4wXU3ofRRNsmLtBB+S8wt2fhc2S3Rvf JqQ1zdwc5IIw3Ho3gsvzIhbR0R9soTS8507sQzADClaE0Swv1cMaVPpFAptsnQmpfeUZ NQAGqumB79BED0PMytt5LJ6msL0No1gR6UNTw= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:mime-version:content-type; b=Vnff/5CvXWnASK6OVX7PBVZu9sgnt+ifGiDBEDfhW+7AnTItLCdS+DmQfdbAu2TCz9 v37OcM1vzzSbdu3Tch+7Q6DEqEfpDkAhUgWS8Ruk956/Jh78AdG7SGeHd3SqiKDQ8x+/ e4N2p7VLHapW6vPRataTPlKWrRGp5wpWEJz3k= Received: by 10.142.43.19 with SMTP id q19mr3645680wfq.187.1226530105709; Wed, 12 Nov 2008 14:48:25 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.142.214.18 with HTTP; Wed, 12 Nov 2008 14:48:25 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <2cf746c40811121448g23dc3563o426e8b3f54a5983d@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2008 23:48:25 +0100 From: "Nyar Nyar'Onyango" <nyaronya...@gmail.com> To: str8talk-ug2011@googlegroups.com Subject: Obama turns to building a presidency MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_Part_20006_31936806.1226530105677" ------=_Part_20006_31936806.1226530105677 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=WINDOWS-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/election_rdp;_ylt=3DAiAeroP9nyIMIMTS8HF95c.WwvIE Obama turns to building a presidencyBy TERENCE HUNT, Associated Press Write= r Terence Hunt, Associated Press Writer =96 Wed Nov 5, 1:37 pm ET [image: President-elect Barack Obama smiles as he gives his acceptance speech at Grant] <http://news.yahoo.com/nphotos/Barack-Obama-Grant-Park-Chicago-President-el= ect/photo//081105/480/3b630148defe4386879f3f497f98fb38//s:/ap/election_rdp;= _ylt=3DApzzqdQCVAQTMyBrSJGS48Vh24cA> AP =96 President-elect Barack Obama smiles as he gives his acceptance speech at Grant Park in Chicago Tuesday =85 WASHINGTON =96 His storied election behind him and weighty problems in his face, Barack Obama turned Wednesday to the task of building an administration in times of crisis as Americans and the world absorbed his history-shattering achievement as the first black leader ascending to the presidency. Obama enjoyed an everyman day-after in his hometown of Chicago on Wednesday after an electric night of celebration, anchored by his victory rally of 125,000 in Chicago and joyful outpourings of his supporters across the country. The president-elect saw his two young daughters off to school, a simple pleasure he's missed during nearly two years of virtually nonstop travel, then had a gym workout. Pressing business came at him fast, with just 76 days until his inauguratio= n as the 44th president. The nation's top intelligence officials planned to give him top-secret dail= y briefings starting Thursday, sharing with him the most critical overnight intelligence as well as other information he has not been allowed to see as a senator or candidate. And Obama planned to give the first of his daily briefings to the media on Thursday as he moves quickly to begin assembling = a White House staff and selecting Cabinet nominees. Obama was asking Illinois Rep. Rahm Emanuel, former political and policy adviser to President Clinton, to be his White House chief of staff, Democratic officials said. John Podesta, who served as Clinton's chief of staff, was expected to join Obama Senate aide Pete Rouse and campaign adviser Valerie Jarrett in leading the transition team. President Bush pledged "complete cooperation" in the transition and called Obama's victory a "triumph of the American story." Naming the staggering list of problems he inherits in his decisive defeat o= f Republican John McCain =97 two wars and "the worst financial crisis in a century," among them =97 Obama sought to restrain the soaring expectations = of his supporters late Tuesday night even as he stoked them with impassioned calls for national unity and partisan healing. "We may not get there in one year or even in one term," he said. "But, America, I have never been more hopeful than I am tonight that we will get there. I promise you, we as a people will get there." Helping him to get there will be a strengthened Democratic majority in both houses of Congress. When Obama becomes the president on Jan. 20, with Delaware Sen. Joe Biden as his vice president, Democrats will control both the White House and Congress for the first time since 1994. A tide of international goodwill came Obama's way on Wednesday morning, eve= n as developments made clear how heavy a weight will soon be on his shoulders= . Russian President Dmitry Medvedev issued a congratulatory telegram saying there is "solid positive potential" for the election to improve strained relations between Washington and Moscow, if Obama engages in constructive dialogue. Yet he appeared to be deliberately provocative hours after the election wit= h sharp criticism of the U.S. and his announcement that Russia will deploy missiles near NATO member Poland in response to U.S. missile defense plans. In Afghanistan, where villagers said the U.S. bombed a wedding party and killed 37 people, President Hamid Karzai said: "This is my first demand of the new president of the United States =97 to put an end to civilian casualties." Young and charismatic but with little experience on the national level or a= s an executive, Obama easily defeated McCain, smashing records and remaking history along the way. Ending an improbable journey that started for Obama a long 21 months ago, h= e drew a record-breaking $700 million to his campaign account alone. The firs= t African-American destined to sit in the Oval Office, he also was the first Democrat to receive more than 50 percent of the popular vote since Jimmy Carter in 1976. He is the first senator elected to the White House since Jo= hn F. Kennedy in 1960. And Obama scored an Electoral College landslide that redrew America's political dynamics. He won states that reliably voted Republican in presidential elections, such as Indiana and Virginia, which *hadn't supported a Democratic candidate in 44 years*. Ohio and Florida, key to President Bush's twin victories, also went for Obama, as did Pennsylvania, which McCain had deemed crucial for his election hopes. With most U.S. precincts tallied, the popular vote was 52.3 percent for Obama and 46.4 percent for McCain. But the count in the Electoral College was much more lopsided =97 349 to 147 in Obama's favor as of early Wednesda= y, with three states still to be decided. Those were North Carolina, Georgia and Missouri. The nation awakened to the new reality at daybreak, a short night after millions witnessed Obama's election =97 an event so rare it could not be called a once-in-a-century happening. Prominent black leaders wept unabashedly in public, rejoicing in the elevation of one of their own, at long last. The Rev. Jesse Jackson, who had made two White House bids himself, said on ABC's "Good Morning America" that the tears streaming down his face upon Obama's victory were about his father and grandmother and "those who paved the fights. And then that Barack's so majestic." Rep. John Lewis, a Georgia Democrat and leading player in the civil rights movement with Jackson, said on NBC's "Today" show: *"He's going to call on us, I believe, to sacrifice. We all must give up something." * Speaking from Hong Kong, retired Gen. Colin Powell, the black Republican whose endorsement of Obama symbolized the candidate's bipartisan reach and bolstered him against charges of inexperience, called the senator's victory "a very very historic occasion." But he also predicted that Obama would be "a president for all America." On Capitol Hill, Democrats ousted incumbent GOP Sens. Elizabeth Dole of North Carolina and John Sununu of New Hampshire and captured seats held by retiring Republican senators in Virginia, New Mexico and Colorado. Still, the GOP blocked a complete rout, holding the Kentucky seat of Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and a Mississippi seat once held by Trent Lott. The Associated Press prematurely declared incumbent Sen. Norm Coleman the winner in a race against Democratic former comedian Al Franken that by stat= e law is subject to a recount based on the 571-vote margin. The party also held onto a Mississippi seat once held by Trent Lott. In the House, with fewer than a dozen races still undecided, Democrats captured Republican-held seats in the Northeast, South and West and were on a path to pick up as many as 20 seats. "It is not a mandate for a party or ideology but a mandate for change," sai= d Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada. After the longest and costliest campaign in U.S. history, Obama was propelled to victory by voters dismayed by eight years of Bush's presidency and deeply anxious about rising unemployment and home foreclosures and a battered stock market that has erased trillions of dollars of savings for Americans. Six in 10 voters picked the economy as the most important issue facing the nation in an Associated Press exit poll. None of the other top issues =97 energy, Iraq, terrorism and health care =97 was selected by more than one i= n 10. Obama has promised to cut taxes for most Americans, get the United States out of Iraq and expand health care, including mandatory coverage for children. McCain conceded defeat shortly after 11 p.m. EST, telling supporters outsid= e the Arizona Biltmore Hotel, "The American people have spoken, and they have spoken clearly." "This is an historic election, and I recognize the special significance it has for African-Americans and the special pride that must be theirs tonight," McCain said. "These are difficult times for our country. And I pledge to him tonight to do all in my power to help him lead us through the many challenges we face." The son of a Kenyan father and a white mother from Kansas, the 47-year-old Obama has had a startlingly rapid rise, from lawyer and community organizer to state legislator and U.S. senator, now not even four years into his firs= t term. Almost six in 10 women supported Obama nationwide, while men leaned his way by a narrow margin, according to interviews with voters. Just over half of whites supported McCain, giving him a slim advantage in a group that Bush carried overwhelmingly in 2004. The results of the AP survey were based on a preliminary partial sample of nearly 10,000 voters in Election Day polls and in telephone interviews over the past week for early voters. In terms of turnout, America voted in record numbers. It looks like 136.6 million Americans will have voted for president this election, based on 88 percent of the country's precincts tallied and projections for absentee ballots, said Michael McDonald of George Mason University. Using his methods, that would give 2008 a 64.1 percent turnout rate, the highest sinc= e 65.7 percent in 1908, he said. (This version CORRECTS SUBS 5th graf to correct spelling of Emanuel. AP Video.) ------=_Part_20006_31936806.1226530105677 Content-Type: text/html; charset=WINDOWS-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline <br><br><a href=3D"http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/election_rdp;_ylt=3DAiAeroP9n= yIMIMTS8HF95c.WwvIE">http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/election_rdp;_ylt=3DAiAeroP= 9nyIMIMTS8HF95c.WwvIE</a><br><h1>Obama turns to building a presidency</h1><= cite class=3D"vcard">By TERENCE HUNT, Associated Press Writer <span = class=3D"fn org">Terence Hunt, Associated Press Writer</span> </cite> =96 <abbr title=3D"2008-11-05T10:37:34-0800" class=3D"timedate">Wed No= v 5, 1:37 pm ET<br><br></abbr> =20 =20 =20 =20 <div class=3D"bd"> <div id=3D"yn-story-related-media"> =20 <div class=3D"primary-media yn-style2"> =20 <div id=3D"yn-story-main-media" class=3D"ult-section yn-sty= le1"> <div class=3D"photo-big"> <a href=3D"http://news.yahoo.com/nphotos/Barack-Obama-Grant-Park-Ch= icago-President-elect/photo//081105/480/3b630148defe4386879f3f497f98fb38//s= :/ap/election_rdp;_ylt=3DApzzqdQCVAQTMyBrSJGS48Vh24cA" class=3D"media"> <img src=3D"http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20081105/capt.3b= 630148defe4386879f3f497f98fb38.obama_2008_ilrg123.jpg?x=3D213&y=3D156&a= mp;xc=3D1&yc=3D1&wc=3D410&hc=3D300&q=3D100&sig=3DS8PDyD= UBAGgX3uTcOnKZJg--" alt=3D"President-elect Barack Obama smiles as he gives = his acceptance speech at Grant" width=3D"213" height=3D"156"> =20 </a> =20 <cite class=3D"caption"> AP =96 President-elect Barack Obama smiles as he gives hi= s acceptance speech at Grant Park in Chicago Tuesday =85<br><br></cite= ><div class=3D"yn-story-content"> <p>WASHINGTON =96 His storied election behind him a= nd weighty problems in his face, <span class=3D"yshortcuts" id=3D"lw_122591= 3561_0">Barack Obama</span> turned Wednesday to the task of building an administration in times of crisis as Americans and the world absorbed his history-shattering achievement as the first black leader ascending to the presidency.</p> <p>Obama enjoyed an everyman day-after in his hometown of Chicago on Wednesday after an electric night of celebration, anchored by his victory rally of 125,000 in Chicago and joyful outpourings of his supporters across the country. The president-elect saw his two young daughters off to school, a simple pleasure he's missed during nearly two years of virtually nonstop travel, then had a gym workout.</p> <p>Pressing business came at him fast, with just 76= days until his inauguration as the <span style=3D"border-bottom: 1px dashe= d rgb(0, 102, 204); background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; curso= r: pointer; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -mo= z-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;" class=3D"yshortcut= s" id=3D"lw_1225913561_1">44th president</span>.</p> <p>The nation's top intelligence officials planned to give him top-secret daily briefings starting Thursday, sharing with him the most critical overnight intelligence as well as other information he has not been allowed to see as a senator or candidate. And Obama planned to give the first of his daily briefings to the media on Thursday as he moves quickly to begin assembling a White House staff and selecting Cabinet nominees.</p> <p>Obama was asking Illinois <span style=3D"border-= bottom: 1px dashed rgb(0, 102, 204); cursor: pointer;" class=3D"yshortcuts"= id=3D"lw_1225913561_2">Rep. Rahm Emanuel</span>, former political and poli= cy adviser to <span style=3D"background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% = 0%; cursor: pointer; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-or= igin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;" class=3D"= yshortcuts" id=3D"lw_1225913561_3">President Clinton</span>, to be his <spa= n style=3D"background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; cursor: pointe= r; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial= ; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;" class=3D"yshortcuts" id=3D"= lw_1225913561_4">White House chief of staff</span>, Democratic officials sa= id. <span class=3D"yshortcuts" id=3D"lw_1225913561_5">John Podesta</span>, who served as Clinton's chief of staff, was expected to join Obama Senate aide Pete Rouse and campaign adviser Valerie Jarrett in leading the transition team.</p> <p><span class=3D"yshortcuts" id=3D"lw_1225913561_6= ">President Bush</span> pledged "complete cooperation" in the tra= nsition and called <span style=3D"background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);">Obam= a's victory a "triumph of the American story."</span></p> <p>Naming the staggering list of problems he inheri= ts in his <span class=3D"yshortcuts" id=3D"lw_1225913561_7">decisive defeat= </span> of <span style=3D"background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%;= cursor: pointer; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origi= n: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;" class=3D"ysh= ortcuts" id=3D"lw_1225913561_8">Republican John McCain</span> =97 two wars and "the worst financial crisis in a century," among= them =97 Obama sought to restrain the soaring expectations of his supporters late Tuesday night even as he stoked them with impassioned calls for national unity and partisan healing.</p> <p>"We may not get there in one year or even in one term," he said. "But= , America, I have never been more hopeful than I am tonight that we will get there. I promise you, we as a people will get there."</p> <p>Helping him to get there will be a strengthened Democratic majority in both houses of Congress. When Obama becomes the president on Jan. 20, with Delaware <span style=3D"border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(0, 102, 204); cursor:= pointer;" class=3D"yshortcuts" id=3D"lw_1225913561_9">Sen. Joe Biden</span= > as his vice president, Democrats will control both the <span class=3D"ysh= ortcuts" id=3D"lw_1225913561_10">White House</span> and Congress for the fi= rst time since 1994.</p> <p>A tide of international goodwill came Obama's way on Wednesday morning, even as developments made clear how heavy a weight will soon be on his shoulders.</p> <p>Russian President Dmitry Medvedev issued a congratulatory telegram saying there is<span style=3D"bac= kground-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);"> "solid positive potential"</span> for the election to improve <span class=3D"= yshortcuts" id=3D"lw_1225913561_11">strained relations</span> between Washi= ngton and Moscow, if Obama engages in constructive dialogue.</p> <p>Yet he appeared to be deliberately provocative hours after the election with sharp criticism of the U.S. and his announcement that <span class=3D"y= shortcuts" id=3D"lw_1225913561_12">Russia</span> will deploy missiles near = NATO member <span style=3D"background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%= ; cursor: pointer; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-orig= in: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;" class=3D"ys= hortcuts" id=3D"lw_1225913561_13">Poland</span> in response to U.S. missile= defense plans.</p> <p>In <span class=3D"yshortcuts" id=3D"lw_122591356= 1_14">Afghanistan</span>, where villagers said the U.S. bombed a wedding pa= rty and killed 37 people, <span class=3D"yshortcuts" id=3D"lw_1225913561_15= ">President Hamid Karzai</span> said: <span style=3D"background-color: rgb(= 255, 255, 0);">"This is my first demand of the </span><span style=3D"b= ackground: rgb(255, 255, 0) none repeat scroll 0% 0%; cursor: pointer; -moz= -background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-= background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;" class=3D"yshortcuts" id=3D"lw_1225= 913561_16">new president of the United States</span><span style=3D"backgrou= nd-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);"> =97 to put an end to civilian casualties.&quo= t;</span></p> <p>Young and charismatic but with little experience on the national level or as an executive, Obama easily defeated McCain, smashing records and remaking history along the way.</p> <p>Ending an improbable journey that started for Obama a long 21 months ago, <span st= yle=3D"background-color: rgb(255, 255, 51);">he drew a record-breaking $700 million to his campaign account alone</span>. T= he first African-American destined to sit in the <span class=3D"yshortcuts" id= =3D"lw_1225913561_17">Oval Office</span>, he also was the first Democrat to= receive more than 50 percent of the popular vote since <span style=3D"bord= er-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(0, 102, 204); cursor: pointer;" class=3D"yshortcu= ts" id=3D"lw_1225913561_18">Jimmy Carter</span> in 1976. He is the first se= nator elected to the White House since <span style=3D"background: transpare= nt none repeat scroll 0% 0%; cursor: pointer; -moz-background-clip: -moz-in= itial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy:= -moz-initial;" class=3D"yshortcuts" id=3D"lw_1225913561_19">John F. Kenned= y</span> in 1960.</p> <p>And Obama scored an <span style=3D"border-bottom= : 1px dashed rgb(0, 102, 204); cursor: pointer;" class=3D"yshortcuts" id=3D= "lw_1225913561_20">Electoral College</span> landslide that redrew America's political dynamics. He won states that reliably voted Republican in presidential elections, such as Indiana and <span class=3D"yshortcuts" id=3D"lw_1225913561_21">Virginia</span>, whi= ch <b><i><u><span style=3D"background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);">hadn't = supported a Democratic candidate in 44 years</span></u></i></b>. <span clas= s=3D"yshortcuts" id=3D"lw_1225913561_22">Ohio</span> and Florida, key to <s= pan style=3D"background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; cursor: poin= ter; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initi= al; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;" class=3D"yshortcuts" id= =3D"lw_1225913561_23">President Bush</span>'s twin victories, also went= for Obama, as did <span class=3D"yshortcuts" id=3D"lw_1225913561_24">Penns= ylvania</span>, which McCain had deemed crucial for his election hopes.</p> <p>With most U.S. precincts tallied, the popular vote was 52.3 percent for Obama and 46.4 percent for McCain. But the count in the Electoral College was much more lopsided =97 349 to 147 in Obama's favor as of early Wednesday, with three states still to be decided. Those were <span st= yle=3D"background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; cursor: pointer; -= moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -m= oz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;" class=3D"yshortcuts" id=3D"lw_1= 225913561_25">North Carolina</span>, Georgia and <span class=3D"yshortcuts"= id=3D"lw_1225913561_26">Missouri</span>.</p> <p style=3D"background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);">Th= e nation awakened to the new reality at daybreak, a short night after millions witnessed Obama's election =97 an event so rare it could not b= e called a once-in-a-century happening. Prominent black leaders wept unabashedly in public, rejoicing in the elevation of one of their own, at long last. </p><p> The <span style=3D"border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(0, 102, 204); cursor: poin= ter;" class=3D"yshortcuts" id=3D"lw_1225913561_27">Rev. Jesse Jackson</span= >, who had made two White House bids himself, said on ABC's "Good Mor= ning America" that the tears streaming down his face upon Obama's victo= ry were about his father and grandmother and "those who paved the fights. And then that Barack's so majestic." </p><p> <span style=3D"background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; cursor: po= inter; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-ini= tial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;" class=3D"yshortcuts" id= =3D"lw_1225913561_28">Rep. John Lewis</span>, a Georgia Democrat and leadin= g player in the <span class=3D"yshortcuts" id=3D"lw_1225913561_29">civil ri= ghts movement</span> with Jackson, said on NBC's "Today" show= : <u><b><i><span style=3D"background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);">"He'= ;s going to call on us, I believe, to sacrifice. We all must give up someth= ing." </span></i></b></u></p><p> Speaking from Hong Kong, retired <span class=3D"yshortcuts" id=3D"lw_122591= 3561_30">Gen. Colin Powell</span>, the black Republican whose endorsement of Obama symbolized the candidate's bipartisan reach and bolstered him against charges of inexperience, called the senator's victory "a very very historic occasion." But he also predicted that Obama would be "a president= for all America." </p><p> On Capitol Hill, Democrats ousted incumbent <span class=3D"yshortcuts" id= =3D"lw_1225913561_31">GOP</span> Sens. <span style=3D"background: transpare= nt none repeat scroll 0% 0%; cursor: pointer; -moz-background-clip: -moz-in= itial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy:= -moz-initial;" class=3D"yshortcuts" id=3D"lw_1225913561_32">Elizabeth Dole= </span> of North Carolina and <span class=3D"yshortcuts" id=3D"lw_122591356= 1_33">John Sununu</span> of <span class=3D"yshortcuts" id=3D"lw_1225913561_= 34">New Hampshire</span> and captured seats held by retiring Republican sen= ators in Virginia, <span class=3D"yshortcuts" id=3D"lw_1225913561_35">New M= exico</span> and Colorado. Still, the GOP blocked a complete rout, holding = the Kentucky seat of <span style=3D"border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(0, 102, 2= 04); cursor: pointer;" class=3D"yshortcuts" id=3D"lw_1225913561_36">Senate = Minority Leader Mitch McConnell</span> and a Mississippi seat once held by = <span class=3D"yshortcuts" id=3D"lw_1225913561_37">Trent Lott</span>. </p><p> The Associated Press prematurely declared incumbent <span style=3D"border-b= ottom: 1px dashed rgb(0, 102, 204); cursor: pointer;" class=3D"yshortcuts" = id=3D"lw_1225913561_38">Sen. Norm Coleman</span> the winner in a race again= st Democratic former comedian <span class=3D"yshortcuts" id=3D"lw_122591356= 1_39">Al Franken</span> that by state law is subject to a recount based on the 571-vote margin. The party also held onto a Mississippi seat once held by Trent Lott. </p><p> <span class=3D"yshortcuts" id=3D"lw_1225913561_40">In the House</span>, with fewer than a dozen races still undecided, Democrats captured Republican-held seats in the Northeast, South and West and were on a path to pick up as many as 20 seats. </p><p> "It is not a mandate for a party or ideology but a mandate for change,= " said <span style=3D"border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(0, 102, 204); curs= or: pointer;" class=3D"yshortcuts" id=3D"lw_1225913561_41">Senate Majority = Leader Harry Reid</span> of Nevada. </p><p>After <span style=3D"background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);">the longes= t and costliest campaign in U.S. history,</span> Obama was propelled to victory by voters dismayed by eight years of Bush's presidency and deeply anxious about rising unemployment and home foreclosures and a battered stock market that has erased trillions of dollars of savings for Americans. </p><p>Six in 10 voters picked the economy as the most important issue facing the nation in an Associated Press exit poll. None of the other top issues =97 energy, Iraq, terrorism and health care =97 was selected by more than one in 10. Obama has promised to cut taxes for most Americans, get the United States out of <span class=3D"yshortcuts" id=3D"lw= _1225913561_42">Iraq</span> and expand health care, including mandatory cov= erage for children. </p><p> McCain conceded defeat shortly after 11 p.m. EST, telling supporters outsid= e the Arizona Biltmore Hotel, "<span class=3D"yshortcuts" id=3D"lw_122= 5913561_43">The American people</span> have spoken, and they have spoken cl= early." </p><p> "This is an historic election, and I recognize the special significanc= e it has for African-Americans and the special pride that must be theirs tonight," McCain said. "These are difficult times for our country= . And I pledge to him tonight to do all in my power to help him lead us through the many challenges we face." </p><p style=3D"background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);">The son of a Kenyan fa= ther and a white mother from Kansas, the 47-year-old Obama has had a startlingly rapid rise, from lawyer and community organizer to state legislator and <span style=3D"border-bottom: 1= px dashed rgb(0, 102, 204); cursor: pointer;" class=3D"yshortcuts" id=3D"lw= _1225913561_44">U.S. senator</span>, now not even four years into his first= term. </p><p> Almost six in 10 women supported Obama nationwide, while men leaned his way by a narrow margin, according to interviews with voters. Just over half of whites supported McCain, giving him a slim advantage in a group that Bush carried overwhelmingly in 2004. </p><p> The results of the AP survey were based on a preliminary partial sample of = nearly 10,000 voters in <span style=3D"border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(0, 102= , 204); cursor: pointer;" class=3D"yshortcuts" id=3D"lw_1225913561_45">Elec= tion Day</span> polls and in telephone interviews over the past week for ea= rly voters. </p><p>In terms of turnout, America voted in record numbers. It looks like 136.6 million Americans will have voted for president this election, based on 88 percent of the country's precincts tallied and projections for <span class=3D"yshortcuts" id=3D"lw_1225913561_46">absentee= ballots</span>, said Michael McDonald of George Mason University. Using his methods, that would give 2008 a 64.1 percent turnout rate, the highest since 65.7 percent in 1908, he said. </p><p> (This version CORRECTS SUBS 5th graf to correct spelling of Emanuel. AP Vid= eo.)</p> </div><br> </div> =20 =20 </div></div></div></div><br> ------=_Part_20006_31936806.1226530105677--
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