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Obama: The morning after and some last thoughts

Did you feel that wave that felt like it was enveloping the world last night? In the giddy aftermath of Obama's acceptance speech it felt like as hard as the road forward would be for the United States ... continue

Obama Inauguration: Tickets, Hotels, and Everything Else

With the election over, America's attention now turns to Inauguration Day. President-Elect Barack Obama's inauguration will occur on January 20, 2009 -- and the planning starts right now. Inauguration Day 2009 Tickets Want to attend? You do ... continue

Obama Victory Speech

The President Elect of the United States, Barack Obama is set to take the stage at around midnight local time and you can watch the whole thing live online. Update: speech over. We'll update the post with a ... continue

Obama Wins Election

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 ... continue

Carrie Underwood Blasts Candidate-Backing Celebrities

We're all hanging into the results rolling in from today (yay! and eek!), so I thought that you might be interested in one such celeb who did not publicly back a candidate today: Carrie Underwood. In fact, ... continue

CNN’s Wolf talks to holographic reporter [CNN hologram]

CNN is well known for using some of the newest technologies available for big ticket events like the Presidential election. This year they are introducing holographic interviews (the CNN hologram) with people around the election and this ... continue

Child pushed and called n* lover by other child

This is just too damn sad to be happening in this day and age especially coming from children. Where the hell is the parenting in this. I'm doing a straight cut and paste from Rob Fahrni blog. ... continue

Sarah Palin claims she’s targeted by racial discrimination

Even as the election results are starting to come through, the candidate that keeps on giving keeps on giving. At a rally this week, Sarah Palin was asked by an African American attendee what she could do to ... continue

Exit polls show economy number one election issue (update: Obama up)

The media has behaved itself this election with a self imposed 5pm embargo on exit polls. Those results are now slowly coming out (well update the post if we get more data). According to AP, the polls found ... continue

Track the election results live online

As polls start to close, America turns online for live election results. The first polls close at 6pm EST (3pm PST, 10am AEST) with results available shortly there after. The next President should be known by 9pm ... continue

The Pentagon horror story waiting for the next President

We heard a lot of things that the next president will be dealing with but the one glaring omission from both sides of the fence is the quicksand that is building around the Pentagon. In a world ... continue

It’s Diddy’s B-Day, Now Vote Or Die

Diddy wished himself and all his alter egos a "Happy Birthday" in a horrid rendition of a very happy song. His birthday wish? "I wish [...] that Barack Obama becomes president and they don't try to steal the ... continue