Election Day 2008

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Wide Awake in America

Chez Pazienza | Posted 12.06.2008 | Politics

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What we witnessed last night and what we're still feeling the aftershocks of this morning is, in a word, history.

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Let Bygones (Not) Be Bygones

Marty Kaplan | Posted 12.06.2008 | Politics

What an insult it is to the idea of accountability -- this notion that responsibility for the ugly emotions unleashed by demagoguery this campaign season is wiped away by a concession speech.

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The End of the Ignorance

Ian Gurvitz | Posted 12.06.2008 | Politics

It took generations for the old guard to die out and for the U.S. to start growing better people. And now they've finally come of age to vote. We can begin to wave farewell to our ignorant past.

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Obama: From "Shouldn't" to "Did"

Rupert Russell | Posted 12.06.2008 | Politics

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It is time to throw out the old playbook for one simple reason. It was wrong. Obama wasn't your average Democratic candidate, but then again, America isn't your average country, either.

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Americans Embrace Pro-Education, Pro-Prevention, Pro-Choice Values in Historic Election

Scott Swenson | Posted 12.06.2008 | Living

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Social conservatives have a simple choice to make. They can recognize the US as a pluralistic nation with diverse beliefs and work with people they disagree with, or marginalize themselves.

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History

Trey Ellis | Posted 12.06.2008 | Politics

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I love history and had often whined that I wasn't lucky enough to have lived during a more exciting age: I could have been a Tuskegee Airman, Buffalo Soldier, or beatnik. But last night history came to me.

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Barack Obama is Great Example of American Success

Grant Cardone | Posted 12.06.2008 | Politics

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Regardless of your political beliefs you have to appreciate that this little known man persuaded the citizens of this country to go out and elect him President of the US.

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Say it Loud, I'm Black (in spirit) and I'm Proud

Andy Ostroy | Posted 12.06.2008 | Politics

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Obama's job will not be easy, but he has indeed demonstrated the kind of curiosity, intelligence, judgment, resolve and presence of mind, and the ability to inspire, that great leaders are made of.

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What We Will Remember: Obama's Victory Speech and McCain's Concession

Aaron Zelinsky | Posted 12.06.2008 | Politics

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Obama and McCain accomplished two very different objectives last night: Obama unified and inspired; McCain departed with grace. Here's what history will remember of the speeches of November 4, 2008.

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Global Reactions to Obama Victory from Moscow to Beijing to Muslim World

Nathan Gardels | Posted 12.06.2008 | Politics

Here are some comments I gathered on what Obama's victory means for America's image in the world, from thinkers such as Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Tariq Ramadan, and Garry Kasparov.

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Out of Line: At Last!

Mort Gerberg | Posted 12.06.2008 | Politics

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Read more reaction from HuffPost bloggers to Barack Obama's victory in the 2008 presidential election...

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America 2008, Or Berlin 1989?

Andrew Gumbel | Posted 12.06.2008 | Politics

With a black man pulling off the astonishing feat of rising to the presidency in a land riven by racism for more than two centuries, there was a sense of extraordinary release, and even more extraordinary empowerment.

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Looking Forward: What Comes After the New Deal and the Raw Deal?

Drew Westen | Posted 12.06.2008 | Politics

The task facing President-elect Obama is to articulate the role of government in the 21st century just as FDR articulated its role in the 20th.

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A Memo to President-Elect Obama from America's New Veterans

Paul Rieckhoff | Posted 12.06.2008 | Politics

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President Obama is going to be held to a very high standard by the veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan. We'll be watching, and holding everyone in Washington accountable.

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Americans Are Not Racists

Jamal Dajani | Posted 12.06.2008 | Media

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As Americans celebrated Obama's victory in Chicago's Grant Park, Arabs, Israelis, and Iranians were sipping on their morning coffee, watching live coverage of Barack Obama's victory speech.

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The World Breaths a Sigh of Relief as America's Light Goes Back On

Rob Kall | Posted 12.06.2008 | Politics

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Looking at the faces of the people in the crowd, as Obama gives his first speech as president-elect, I see a hope that beams bright, a hope that does not stop at red or blue state borders.

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The Night Robert Kennedy Finally Won

Menachem Rosensaft | Posted 12.06.2008 | Politics

Forty years after his assassination shattered dreams and brought his quest to change America to a sudden, brutal halt, Robert Kennedy reached the goal that had been denied him in life.

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Obama's Big Bang in France

Beth Arnold | Posted 12.06.2008 | Politics

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The truth is -- and some Americans don't understand this -- the French also wanted the best for us.

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What a Relief -- America Survives

Cenk Uygur | Posted 12.05.2008 | Politics

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We docked the ship on shore. We're back to normal now. We have re-established the fundamental building blocks of Western civilization -- we have our foundation underneath us.

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It's A New Day

Jeff Chang | Posted 12.05.2008 | Politics

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Throughout the north side of Pittsburgh, one of the city's three major Black districts, they lined up before dawn, hundreds deep in the 47-degree weather as if they were waiting for history to be made.

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Obama's Springfield Connection: 'Whatever He Says You Can Take To the Bank'

Karen Dalton-Beninato | Posted 12.05.2008 | Chicago

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Now that Illinois is offering a second President to the United States, it seemed fitting to spend the night watching Senator Barack Obama with the Democratic County Chair in Springfield.

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Yes. We. Did.

Steven Weber | Posted 12.05.2008 | Politics

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As Obama has campaigned, so shall he govern. And as he won, so have we won. We must preserve, protect and defend the nation we have won back.

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Nomination for Best Image of Election Night 2008

David Sirota | Posted 12.05.2008 | Media

For best image of the night, I nominate this image juxtaposing Newsweek's recent cover entitled "America the Conservative" next to 2008's electoral map showing a landslide for the "socialist."

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The United World of Obama: The Future is Now

Shirin Sadeghi | Posted 12.05.2008 | Politics

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Tonight, the American people didn't just unite their states, they united the world: a world that in 7 short years had seen the nadir of hate, had witnessed the horror of inhumanity.

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Getting on the Bus

Charles D. Ellison | Posted 12.05.2008 | Politics

The time to celebrate and wax poetic will be limited. It will probably end very abruptly on January 21, 2009, when President Barack Obama commences his grand plan to fix what appears unfixable.

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