| U.S. President-elect Barack Obama with his wife Michelle and Vice President-elect Joe Biden with his wife Jill, after the first American black president’s acceptance speech at the Democrats’ party at Grant Park in Chicago.(Ap photo) |
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WASHINGTON - American voters broke with the nation’s history of racial divisions and overwhelmingly elected Barack Obama as the US’s first black president, turning to an inspiring young Democratic senator to lead a country weary from war, economic turmoil and eight years of Republican rule.
Obama, embracing a message of change, tore up the US political map as he defeated John McCain, the veteran Republican senator who struggled in vain to distance himself from George W. Bush’s presidency, which had grown as unpopular at home as it is abroad.
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