Presidential Election 2008

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Rahm Emanuel To Be Obama's White House Chief of Staff

Rahm Emanuel will be President Obama's chief of staff in the White House.Mr. Emanuel accepted the offer on Thursday."Representative Rahm Emanuel on Thursday accepted the offer to become the White House chief of...

How President Obama Plans to Use Social Media

As NowPublic previously reported, "digital politics" and Social Media Mania, played a huge part in the US Election. But how is the web-savvy President-Elect Obama planning to use social media during his...

More Reactions From Malaysia On Obama

Kuala Lumpur: Today, newspapers all over the world including online ones carry on their front pages a familiar face - that of Senator Barack Obama, the newly-elected 44th President of the United States. Actually,...

First in Line for Barack Obama's Election Night Rally: A First-Hand Account

Tom Krieglstein's Election Day experience began hours before the polls opened. On the quiet streets of late-night Chicago during an unseasonably warm night, he had one goal in mind: have a front row seat to a...

Obama victory met with Stock Market mayhem

Indian Stock market opened sharply lower on Thursday tracking weak sentiment across global markets. Indian market followed the cue from US stocks market which plummeted on Wednesday. Wall street didn't...

Barack is white too

Last night, I was fortunate enough to partake in this historic event in Washington DC, the capital of the United States. My colleagues and I scrambled together by metro and taxi to meet other Drupalists at...

McCain Aide Randy Scheunemann Secretly Fired Last Week After "Trashing" Colle...

CNN has reported that senior McCain aide Randy Scheunemann was quietly fired last week after "trashing" colleagues. According to one aide, Scheunemann was let go because he was perceived as being too aligned with vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin. He was also accused by...

Kenya Declares a Public Holiday to Celebrate Obama Victory

Kenya has declared Thursday a national holiday to celebrate Barack Obama's victory in the US Presidential election. As NowPublic's Karen Hatter reported, impromptu celebrations erupted throughout the African nation after Obama, whose father is originally from Kenya, won...

Election Draws 71.4 million TV viewers

Over 71 million Americans tuned in to watch election coverage on Tuesday November 4th, in anticipation to see who would become the next US president.  The figure surpassed ratings from the last two White...

Full Text of Obama's Victory Speech

We wouldn't ordinarily quote an external source in its entirety, however, given this unprecedent moment in American history, we thought that it would be worthwhile to republish the full text of President-Elect...

Obama has New Yorkers literally dancing in the street.

New York City, Nov 4th - Yesterday was a historic day for many as Barack Obama became our nations next president. Just by traversing the streets of New York City one could feel and quite literally see the...

The Reason Exit Polls and "Early Calls" Should Be Avoided...

It seemed like a slam dunk, here in Oregon. Gordon Smith (R) was out, Jeff Merkley (D) was in. So, Fox News called the race in Merkley's favor. So, what's the problem? With only 20% of precincts reporting, the vote was FAR from over. In fact, in some areas (notably downtown...

Just wanted to publically commend Sen. John McCain on a gracious concession ...

First, I congratulate President elect  Barack Obama on an extraordinary campaign and victory.Second, I want to commend Senator John McCain on his concession speech. Throughout this campaign, I have been...

Bob Barr: "The Beginning"

In one of his last press releases, Bob Barr who was the Libertarian Party Candidate for President of the USA declared that the victory of Obama heralded a new beginning for the new Libertarian Party. Bob Barr went on to say that within the next four years, there will be...

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