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McCain Wins Missouri, Breaking Bellwether Streak

AP | Posted 12.20.2008 | Politics

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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — Republican John McCain has defeated President-elect Barack Obama in Missouri _ the last state to be decided in the 2008 pr...

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The Politics of Realignment

Jerome Karabel | Posted 12.08.2008 | Politics

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Barack Obama's victory could well be the third realigning election in the past century -- one that will be seen by historians as the beginning of an emerging Democratic majority.

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Bob Novak Just Doesn't Get It

Brian Normoyle | Posted 12.07.2008 | Politics

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The President-Elect flipped eight Bush states to the blue column and managed to get two states to elect a Democrat for President for the first time in nearly half a century.

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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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The Morning After

Laurel Kaufer | Posted 12.06.2008 | Politics

As we have heard from the analysts on both sides for much of the last month, this year we saw "the perfect storm" hit the Republican party in almost every conceivable way.

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American Beauty

Darin Murphy | Posted 12.06.2008 | Politics

It's nearly impossible to grasp the sheer gravity of this moment. All watched with gaping mouths, transfixed by pride and disbelief, as Obama appeared for the first time as the next President.

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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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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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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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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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America Elects 'A Rock Star'

David A. Andelman | Posted 12.05.2008 | Politics

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The all but unanimous conclusion from my time taking calls from folks on Radio France was a simple one: "Barack Obama is 'le rock star.'"

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The First President Who is Black

Paul Finkelman | Posted 12.05.2008 | Politics

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In the end Obama is not America`s first black president -- he is America`s first president who happens to be black. The difference is huge.

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A New America

Sheryl Crow | Posted 12.05.2008 | Entertainment

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We are now finally waking up and realizing the damage that was done while we were in a asleep at the wheel. As evident in this election time, we are now a nation impassioned with possibility.

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Failure to Blow Election Stuns Democrats

Andy Borowitz | Posted 11.05.2008 | Politics

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For Democrats, who have become accustomed to their party blowing an election even when it seemed like a sure thing, Tuesday night's results were a bitter pill to swallow.

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Hooray for Pennsylvania

Chris Durang | Posted 12.05.2008 | Politics

You know what, I'm shell shocked. I can't feel glad yet, that's a quirk of mine, it's hard for me to celebrate.

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"Politics of Change" Just Changed More Than You Think

Robert J. Elisberg | Posted 12.05.2008 | Politics

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Obama ran a campaign that began with a speech that proclaimed, "We aren't Red States. We aren't Blue States. We are the United States." And that is how he won. That is the politics of change.

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So Far in 40 Years

Logan Nakyanzi Pollard | Posted 12.05.2008 | Politics

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When my mother got married, my grandfather said he'd shoot my dad with a shotgun (an inauspicious but common beginning for an interracial marriage).

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Ya Hussein!

Hooman Majd | Posted 12.05.2008 | Politics

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Tonight, as Americans have decided they would prefer Obama to McCain as their next president there is a sigh of relief, and disbelief, in many quarters in the Middle East, including in Iran.

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The Sixth Principle

Gary Hart | Posted 12.05.2008 | Politics

The president-elect represents a new, post-Clinton, beyond centrism, post-racial, new politics, internet-driven phenomenon. The nation is fed up with neoconservative imperialists, radical fundamentalists, and failed supply-siders.

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Obama Wins: Why All Americans Have a Reason to Celebrate

Arianna Huffington | Posted 12.05.2008 | Politics

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Here is a collection of my posts and videos from this historic week: Obama Wins: Why All Americans Have a Reason to Celebrate Watch: Election Night Reactions: Arianna Talks With Norman Lear, Laurie David, Marty Kaplan And Madelaine Lear Tuesday's Second Biggest Winner: Democracy The Winners and Losers of Campaign '08 Watch: Arianna on BBC Newsnight Discussing Obama's Win I'm Ready to Declare a Winner in the 2008 Race: the Internet

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Mondale's Revenge

Glenn Hurowitz | Posted 12.05.2008 | Politics

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To be sure, the failing economy provided Democrats the context they needed. But a candidate with a little backbone gave them the ability to convince voters to take a chance on change.

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Hello Cleveland

Bruce Springsteen | Posted 12.05.2008 | Politics

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Now is the time to stand together with Barack Obama and Joe Biden and the millions of Americans that are hungry for a new day, roll up our sleeves and come on up for the rising.

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Final Electoral Math -- My Election Picks

Chris Weigant | Posted 12.05.2008 | Politics

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About the Cartoonist | Reprint Policy Because it's Election Day, I'm not going to give a detailed analysis of the past week's polls, as I...

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Reflections on Voting -- 11/4/08

Marcia G. Yerman | Posted 12.05.2008 | Living

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I kept thinking, "I wish my Mother could be here." I thought about Barack Obama's grandmother... and Paul Newman, too.

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Republican Steals All of Neighborhood Obama Signs

Philip G. Baker | Posted 12.05.2008 | Politics

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Our neighborhood has had many more Obama lawn signs than McCain, by a a ratio of almost 10:1. Today someone drove through this part of the town and stole all of the Obama signs.

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