Obama v. McCain
What everyone already knows, or will know:
Obama is the first African American president-elect of the United States of America, the 44th president of the USA.
Obama won majority electoral votes, making him the first national president, since Lyndon B Johnson.
Obama was announced as projected president-elect at 11:00PM EST, on November 4th.
Obama has run, according to many news anchors, strategists, analysts, etc, the most organized, and well-run campaign anyone has ever seen - utilizing the internet, and his experience in grass-roots campaigning, utilizing early voting.
Obama identified over 600,000 registered Democrats, who did not make the election in 2004, to go out and vote in this election. Actual turnout is unknown, but could prove to be a factor, as black, latino, and younger voters obviously turned out to elect him as our next executive.
What you may not have known:
RocktheVote! made personal calls on election day to mobilize young voters to turn out at the polls.
... and I had been sitting in front of the tube since 3PM PST watching the poll results roll in, and waiting for CNN to make their projections.
It's been a long day.
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