Obama Wins Election

Posted: November 4, 2008

Barack Obama will be the 44th President of the United States of America.

As at 10:30pm EST, Obama had 207 electoral votes needing 270 to win, with the West Coast not yet reporting. California, Oregon and Washington State have 73 votes between them, and are expected to support Obama by a large margin. Battleground states such as Pennsylvania and Ohio that needed to have been won by McCain to have a chance to win are painted blue, and Florida is still too close to call, with Obama on 51% vs 48% for McCain with 69% of precincts reporting.

Video + pics to follow. The footage out of Chicago is amazing, with some reports of over 1 million people on the street to celebrate the Obama victory.

Update: at 11pm EST MSNBC has called it the election for Obama.

Update 2: CNN calls for Obama at 11:03pm EST.

Update 3: McCain concedes.

Category: News
Tags : election 08, obama, obama wins, obama wins election
Posted: November 4, 2008

By Duncan Riley

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6 Archived Responses to “ Obama Wins Election ”

Kyle Brady
Nov 4, 2008

YEAHHHHH

I was hoping to beat you to the punch, but I was apparently late to the announcement.

But it's ok, because I know Obama reads my blog and not yours! See: .

Tangible proof.

–Kyle
nick p
Nov 5, 2008

wow that's a cool msnbc widget, will put that on my site. Obama's victory… was it that unpredictable? I don't know. When you look at the official polls, the reality was quite clear but still we doubted.
I think his victory became obvious even before half of all states had finished counting. It was just a matter of energy. And Obama's voters were full of energy.
Funnily enough one major group that did not vote for him was older white churchgoing folks. Oh well. I hope Obama can sway their votes too in 4 years
emdubl
Nov 20, 2008

congratulations mr obama.
N/A
Jan 8, 2009

OBAMA BABE!!!! WOOT WOOT!!! Finally we are saved!!!!