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/ 8 November 2008
Look back at the polls just two months ago and you will see that John McCain was nipping at Barack Obama’s heels in the race to the White House.
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/ 7 November 2008
Let’s be clear about this: Barack Obama has achieved an immense and historic victory.
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/ 6 November 2008
There are times when the usually glacial pace of social progress accelerates to such a degree that you feel you are experiencing it in real time.
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/ 6 November 2008
Barack Obama will pay homage to Abraham Lincoln when he takes the oath of office as the United States’s next president in January.
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/ 6 November 2008
World leaders have hailed Barack Obama’s triumph in the US election, and have called for the global superpower to change the way it does business.
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/ 5 November 2008
President-elect Barack Obama will quickly face big decisions as the US undergoes its first wartime change of administration since the Vietnam era.
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/ 5 November 2008
African leaders on Wednesday hailed the prospect of the first black United States president entering the White House.
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/ 5 November 2008
Anti-apartheid icon Nelson Mandela on Wednesday congratulated United States president-elect Barack Obama on his election victory.
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/ 5 November 2008
The man who once described himself as a ”skinny kid with a funny name” stood before the crowd and took upon his shoulders the weight of leadership.
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/ 5 November 2008
South African President Kgalema Motlanthe congratulated United States president elect Barack Obama on Wednesday on his victory.
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/ 5 November 2008
Sue Harris was not quite sure how to react to the victory of Barack Obama. At a party held by the local Republican party, she was lost for words.
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/ 5 November 2008
Barack Obama rode a wave of voter discontent to a historic White House victory on Tuesday, promising change as the first black US president.
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/ 4 November 2008
On one campaign flight in August, I was finally getting some rest when I was woken by a familiar baritone. I looked up, startled, to see Barack Obama.
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/ 4 November 2008
Barack Obama and John McCain faced the verdict of Americans voting on Tuesday after a long and bitter struggle for the White House.
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/ 4 November 2008
Democrat Barack Obama and Republican John McCain face the verdict of United States voters on Tuesday after a long and bitter struggle.
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/ 4 November 2008
Presidential frontrunner Barack Obama issued a barnstorming call for change at his final campaign rally on Monday.
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/ 3 November 2008
World stock markets turned mixed on Monday as already nervous investors waited for Tuesday’s United States presidential vote.
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/ 3 November 2008
Barack Obama stood on the threshold of history on Monday as polls gave the Democrat a solid lead over John McCain on the last day of campaigning.
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/ 3 November 2008
Whether it’s Barack Obama or John McCain who makes it to the White House, the briefing the president gets on the economy will be a sombre affair.
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/ 2 November 2008
US vice-presidential hopeful Sarah Palin fell prey to a prankster on Saturday when he called her impersonating French President Nicolas Sarkozy.
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/ 2 November 2008
Americans choose on Tuesday between Barack Obama and John McCain in an epochal election that could enshrine their first black president.
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/ 1 November 2008
John McCain ramped up his attacks on Democratic rival Barack Obama on Saturday, describing his rival as stuck in the ”far left lane” of US politics.
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/ 1 November 2008
John McCain on Friday seized on Arnold Schwarzenegger’s star power in Ohio, a state critical to his hopes of clawing back Barack Obama’s lead.
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/ 31 October 2008
Barack Obama’s campaign says Democratic voters are piling up imposing early voting totals in battleground states.
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/ 31 October 2008
Barack Obama and John McCain are embarking on a frenzied, multi-state blitz over the final days of the election campaign.
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/ 30 October 2008
Bulawayo, my home city, is well known for its wide roads that allowed ox-span wagons to turn with ease.
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/ 30 October 2008
Bill Clinton and Barack Obama buried the hatchet and joined forces on Wednesday to deliver a rousing call for change six days from the US election.
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/ 29 October 2008
John McCain renewed his attacks on Barack Obama’s ties to a 1960s radical on Wednesday as he targeted voters in the key battleground state of Florida.
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/ 29 October 2008
Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama launches an unprecedented television blitz on Wednesday to push his economic message on US networks.
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/ 28 October 2008
White House frontrunner Barack Obama on Monday traded blows with John McCain over how to repair the stricken United States economy.
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/ 27 October 2008
Barack Obama was on Monday set to present his "closing argument" to voters as his epic White House duel with John McCain entered its final week.
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/ 27 October 2008
The manipulation and intimidation that African-Americans must face in order to cast a vote will only get worse this year.