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Obama elected 44th president
5 Nov 2008 at 3:10pm

Barack Obama shattered more than 200 years of history Tuesday night by winning election as the first African-American president of the United States.

David Plouffe has agreed to a seven-figure deal to write a book about last year's presidential election. ?The Audacity to Win: The Inside Story and Lessons of Barack Obama's Historic Victory? will also detail the business lessons of a $1 billion start-up.

Cheering supporters of Barack Obama gathered in streets across the country Tuesday night to celebrate a moment in history many thought might never come.

A day before the presidential election, Barack Obama announced the death Monday of his grandmother, who helped raise him and whom he praised as the cornerstone of his family.

Iowa is where Barack Obama?s path to the presidency began. So it was fitting that on the Friday before the American people cast their ballots, Iowa was the spot for one of the Democrat's final campaign rallies.

Barack Obama's campaign "infomercial" drew 26.4 million viewers to three major networks, proving modestly more popular than typical prime-time programming, preliminary figures showed Thursday.

In a rural Tennessee county, where you can't buy alcohol or even find a Wal-Mart, residents stopped each other to ask if anyone knew the pale-skinned young local accused of plotting to kill Barack Obama.

Heading into the final 9 days of the race, McCain and Obama campaign in key battlegrounds that Bush won four years ago as the state-by-state Electoral College map tilts strongly in Obama's favor.

Sen. Barack Obama has opened up his biggest advantage over John McCain in the latest NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll.

Former Secretary of State Colin Powell endorsed Barack Obama for president, criticizing his own Republican Party for what he called its narrow focus on irrelevant personal attacks.

Democrat Barack Obama and Republican John McCain stretched facts, sometimes past the breaking point, as they addressed the financial crisis and more during their second presidential debate.

The heightened attacks, initiated over the weekend by the Republican campaign, gathered intensity Monday as Democrats resurrected their opponent's links to a financial scandal two decades ago.

Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin on Saturday accused Democrat Barack Obama of "palling around with terrorists" because of his association with a former 1960s radical.

The Republican presidential candidate, an abortion rights opponent with a conservative record on the issue, seems content with the public's perception that he's more moderate on the issue.