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From The New York Times Online:
Typically presidents have to wait until long after they’ve left office for holidays to be declared in their honor. But officials in one Alabama county have fast-tracked that process for President-elect Barack Obama.
Read More...Seeking a transcendent victory, Democrat Barack Obama made a final-hour push for Republican-leaning Indiana on Tuesday after casting his own ballot with his young daughters at his side. “It’s going to be tight as a tick here in Indiana,” Obama told volunteers in Indianapolis trying to get out the vote for the Democratic ticket with only seven hours to go in the area’s balloting. “So the question is who wants it more.”
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Barack Obama has taken on this uphill climb with ardent philosophical tools, and the impressive work ethic to push him past front-running candidates twice. It seems like a well-staged coup, but a brief one in the context of the stacked historical and social trends.
Read More...I voted today. It’s November 4, 2008 and I voted today. I voted as a man who believes that a society can do better by its citizens, and as a boy who still likes to think that anything is possible. I voted as a devoted husband and an overjoyed father who will do anything to try and give my two children a beautiful and inspired world to grow up in.
And I voted for my grandmother, who left South Carolina for New York to work in a government job for 49 years, and then left it all to my mother and me. I looked up to her from behind that curtain, and all was ok…
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In probably the most important election of our lifetime, it is important to keep some perspective. With Election Day (finally) only a day away, here is a list of four key numbers worth keeping in mind. Be in the know, after the jump…
Read More...All of us should be prepared to vote and make sure our votes are counted. Don’t let anyone discourage you! Click here for some tips on how to protect your precious vote, via Color Of Change! Plus, watch a exclusive video from Color of Change after the jump…
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