“Change. Yes we can!! Yes they did it! With 293 electoral votes few minutes ago tonight history has been made. America elects the first Black/African American President. Barrack Obama kept winning initially with the key states of Pennsylvania, Ohio and his state wins kept growing by the hours as the results kept coming in.
America a country once that African American voters could not even vote, in a momentous night has given the Commander in Chiefs’ position, the highest post in the country to an African American. An unbelievable achievement for the people and the country grappling with racial issues. Obama becoming the President of the United States of America has set examples for the rest of the world. According to Jessie Jackson this is a historic event and send to the whole world the message particularly to countries like United Kingdom, France and other such developed countries that it is time to move on beyond the ethnic and racial divisions that still prevails in those countries. America in deed is worth thanking for. As people who has lived in Western countries we can confirm that other countries had a lot to learn from this example set by America.
The Democratic candidate also added New York, Michigan, Minnesota, Rhode Island and Wisconsin to his earlier projected victories in traditionally Democratic states, including New Hampshire, Massachusetts and Illinois, the state he has represented in the Senate since 2006.
McCain was the projected winner of 95 electoral votes in southern states his campaign expected to capture, including Georgia, Texas, Alabama, Kentucky, Tennessee and South Carolina, as well as in traditionally Republican states in the west, such as Utah and Wyoming.
The victory of Obama is historic. People who had never voted before, for the first time have voted in huge numbers. This presidential election is not only historical in racial terms, but it is historical in the sense that it has set the record as the election with the most voter turn out in the history of America. 130 million Americans were expected to cast ballots to elect the 44th president of the United States.
47 year old Obama lost his grandmother last Sunday. A Women who he sees as the key individual who has shaped his life to become what he is today. Few moments before hitting the 270 electoral vote mark for winning the presidency as supporter stated, “America we will be a country racially divided no more, we are united”. More than a million supporters has gathered to the Grant Park in Chicago to participate in the Election Party. Congratulations to Barrack Hussein Obama the 44th President of the United States of America. You are a man of great inspiration not only to America but to the whole world.
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