Barack Obama was elected the nation's first black president in Tuesday night.A huge crowd in Grant Park in Chicago erupted in jubilation at the news of Obama's
victory.The 47-year-old Democratic junior senator from Illinois swept to victory over his Republican opponent, Arizona Sen. McCain, building an Electoral College majority of at least 311 votes. The Illinois senator climbed over the top at 11 p.m. ET Tuesday with wins in California, Oregon, Washington and Hawaii. It takes 270 electoral votes to win. As the 44th president, Obama will move into the Oval Office as leader of a country.
Obama Elected as President
Barack Obama, a 47-year-old first-team senator from Illionois.When obama win in election, then 200 years of history Tuesday night by winning election as the first African-American president in US. Won the 2008 US Presidential Election to become the 44th President Elect of the United States of America.
He will be the first African Americab ti hold the post, and at 47 year old, one of the youngest. CNN's most recent projection has Obama with 338 electoral votes. McCain has only 163. Obama, with 52% of the popular vote (60.5 million) soundly trounced McCain's 47% (54.1 million).
Most impressive were Obama's wins in Virginia, which had voted republican for president 44 years in a row, and Ohio. The state that secured George W Bush's second term in 2004. For the first time in the presidential campaign, Mr Obama went into the lead in a national poll with 54 per cent Democratic primary voters supporting his nomination against 38 per cent for Mrs Clinton, a lead greater than the pollsters' margin for error of plus or minus 5 per cent.
In Ohio and Texas, where there are primaries next Tuesday, the race is neck and neck, and Mrs Clinton is holding on to a narrow lead in rustbelt Ohio.
The son of a black father from Kenya and a white mother from Kansas. The popular vote was close, but not the count in the Electoral College, where it mattered most. Obama's audacious decision to contest McCain in states. Obama has said his first order of presidential business will be to tackle the economy. The 47-year-old Illinois senator was little known just four years ago.
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