Election Analysis

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The Other Side of Paradise

Scott Kesterson | Posted 12.06.2008 | Politics

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Eastern Afghanistan--In the early hours of the morning, an Army Captain watched as the election results were being reported. He shook his head in disgust. "This is proof that the media can elect a President."

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When Your Best Speech is Your Concession, What's Wrong?

Bob Ostertag | Posted 12.06.2008 | Politics

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If the only time you can actually speak from your heart is when you have lost, then why are you running? What good are you doing anyone, including yourself?

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Incurious George

Daniel Menaker | Posted 12.06.2008 | Politics

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For whatever else the election of Barack Obama accomplishes or fails to accomplish, I think it has put an end to the nearly-decade-long Age of Incuriosity of the Bush administration.

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REM's Santiago JumboTron Shows HuffPo Results

Karen Dalton-Beninato | Posted 12.06.2008 | Entertainment

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Live from Santiago, Chile, there was an election night shout out from R.E.M. for the Huffington Post's election coverage.

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Mandate for Change

Greg Saunders | Posted 12.06.2008 | Politics

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Barack Obama is under no obligation to govern like a centrist or temper his policy goals to accommodate a point-of-view that the American people have decisively rejected. Obama won. Elections have consequences.

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A Change is Gonna Come

Terrance Heath | Posted 12.06.2008 | Politics

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My son will be growing up in a world my father didn't, a world with more possibilities open to him than existed before; closer, at least, to the world as it should be than the world as it was. Or is.

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Yes We Can, Said Barack Obama, And We Did

Erik Ose | Posted 12.06.2008 | Politics

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Obama's victory does not spell the end of racial disparity in America, but it is a ringing sign of progress, a triumph on the road to greater equality and realizing the Dream that Martin Luther King, Jr. revealed to us.

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Notes from a Dad of Children Like Barack

Roderick Spencer | Posted 12.06.2008 | Living

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The proof of my children's lack of anxiety over their racial identity, is the amused, slightly puzzled way they watched their parents bawling our eyes out in front of Barack Obama's victory speech last night.

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The Long Exhale

Sasha Abramsky | Posted 12.06.2008 | Politics

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The tears running down my face last night and this morning were of something so much more than happiness, so much more than simple relief. They were an exhalation.

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Barack's Big Gamble ... And His Vision

RJ Eskow | Posted 12.06.2008 | Politics

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Why did Obama risk following a strategy that had failed so often in recent campaigns? Obama saw something in the zeitgeist.

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The Time-Bombs Ticking Under Obama's Presidency

Johann Hari | Posted 12.06.2008 | Politics

Mr President-Elect, there is a pile of ticking time-bombs waiting in your in-tray and you have to defuse each one of them, fast. Welcome to the next four years of your life.

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At Long Last, It's Beginning To Feel Like America

Bob Cesca | Posted 12.06.2008 | Politics

We set about the task of freeing ourselves from the darkness of this decade and the shadows that have for too long haunted us. In this respect, all of us -- all races -- are a little more free at last.

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A Contrarian Open Letter to Black America

Michael Fauntroy | Posted 12.06.2008 | Politics

The reality of politics and race are such that having a black president will mean little if there are no changes in the material conditions of Black America.

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History on Cuba - Hidden in Plain View - In Florida's Election Returns

Sarah Stephens | Posted 12.06.2008 | Politics

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In the election returns, hidden in plain view, is license for President-elect Obama to fundamentally rethink U.S. policy toward Cuba and expand on his incremental approach.

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Election Morning 2008

Jill Robinson | Posted 12.06.2008 | Living

Being pleased to make this vote, this connection with my land again will stay with me for as long as what forever might be.

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African Americans vs Gay Americans?

Judy Wieder | Posted 12.06.2008 | Politics

It looks like I still have a lot of work left to do, a lot of marching and protesting--even though I did that already for others and they're not doing the same for me.

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What Do We Do Now?

Av Sinensky | Posted 12.06.2008 | Politics

For the first time in my life I got a glimpse into what it must have felt like for my grandparents in 1948: to witness with their own eyes the realization of an impossible dream.

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Environmental Groups Congratulate Obama on Victory

Maura Judkis | Posted 12.06.2008 | Green

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Among the many celebrating Barack Obama's victory today are environmentalists. Here's what some have to say:

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On Obama, Race and the End of the Southern Strategy

Simon Rosenberg | Posted 12.06.2008 | Politics

Following the Iowa caucuses, I came away believing then, as I do now, that Obama's powerful voice that emerged that night had the potential to have a profound impact on America.

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Crossing Two Chasms at Once

Francine Hardaway | Posted 12.06.2008 | Politics

I'm so glad to be alive. I'm wiped out by the last eight years, but I don't care. Some things are bigger than I am, and bigger than life, and I just lived to see one of them. Toot, 'ya did good.

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"New Energy for America" Trumps "Drill Baby Drill"

Carl Pope | Posted 12.06.2008 | Green

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Barack Obama's transformational victory points to a future based on renewable energy, advanced biofuels, efficiency, and low greenhouse-gas-emitting technologies.

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Obama's Branding Genius

John Tepper Marlin | Posted 12.06.2008 | Business

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AdAge announced today that yesterday, November 4, is the most significant day for marketers in the history of the world.

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What Obama Needs To Do First: Make Clear How Bad It Is

Henry Blodget | Posted 12.06.2008 | Business

If President-Elect Obama were an incoming CEO, he would now be preparing for a massive write-off of the mountains of rotted junk buried on the company's balance sheet and an announcement that recovery will take a long, long time.

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A Victory For Progressive Change

Rep. Barbara Lee | Posted 12.06.2008 | Politics

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I look forward to working with the entire progressive community in the months to come as we turn our focus away from elections and toward governing so we can quickly get our nation back on track.

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A New Deal for America? Yes We Can!

Matthew Stein | Posted 12.06.2008 | Green

It has been estimated that we could fund the changes necessary to turn our world around by shifting just 1/6th of the world's military budget into programs that support energy efficiency.

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