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With all but Alaska and Hawaii closed, some news organizations are now projecting Barack Obama as the 44th president of the United States of America. The polls are still being tallied, however, barring completely unforeseen circumstances, Obama is in the White House and McCain put up a decent fight.
MSNBC reports on the victory:
Barack Obama, a 47-year-old first-term senator from Illinois, shattered more than 200 years of history Tuesday night by winning election as the first African-American president in the history of the United States, according to projections by NBC News.
Obama reached the 270 electoral votes he needed for election at 11 p.m. ET, when NBC News projected that he would win California, Washington and Oregon.
Campaigning as a technocratic agent of change in Washington, not as a pathbreaking civil rights figure, Obama swept to victory over Republican Sen. John McCain of Arizona, whose running mate, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, was seeking to become the nation’s first female vice president.
A crowd nearing 100,000 people gathered in Grant Park in Chicago, awaiting an address by Obama. Hundreds of thousands more — Mayor Richard Daley said he would not be surprised if a million Chicagoans jammed the streets — were watching on a large television screen outside the park.
Surveys of voters as they left polling places nationwide indicated the breadth of Obama’s victory. As expected, he won overwhelmingly among African-American voters, but he also won a slim majority of white voters. He won among women and Latino voters, reversing a longstanding Republican trend. And he won by more than 2-to-1 among voters of all races 30 years old and younger.
That dynamic was telling in Ohio, which President Bush won in 2004, and in Pennsylvania, where McCain poured in millions of dollars of scarce resources. Obama won both.
Obama also took Massachusetts, Michigan, New Jersey and New York, all states with hefty electoral vote hauls, NBC News projected. McCain countered with Texas and numerous smaller states, primarily in the South and the Great Plains.
In interviews with NBC News, aides to McCain said they were proud that they had put up a good fight in “historically difficult times.”
A senior adviser said McCain himself was “fine” but that he felt “he let his staff and supporters down.”
Video from ABC News of Obama supporters filling Grant Park in Chicago:
More to come later with Obama’s victory speech and McCain’s concession speech, assuming the remaining states and projections hold steady.
Update
Here’s Obama’s victory speech to supporters in Chicago:
Amazing. Whether you voted for Obama or not, at least be proud of your country that we can go through a peaceful, civilized transition of power.
President Bush has also congratulated Obama, report from Yahoo News:
WASHINGTON – President Bush has called Barack Obama to congratulate him on winning the presidency.
The two-term Republican president told the Illinois senator upon his historic win: “What an awesome night for you, your family and your supporters.”
Barack Obama was elected the nation’s first black president Tuesday night in dominant fashion, besting Republican John McCain.
Bush promised Obama a smooth transition to the White House.
Bush spokeswoman Dana Perino said the president told Obama: “You are about to go on one of the great journeys of life. Congratulations and go enjoy yourself.”
Nice to read about some unity from our leaders.
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LET ME BE THE FIRST TO SAY….CONGRADULATIONS PRESIDENT ELECT BARACK OBAMA!!!!
McCain’s concession speech was first rate, and it blew me away. He really does value unity and put country first.
wont be long till the buyers remorse sets in.
Kendale – Smack talk is going to happen regardless of what happens. The drivel that is flowing from your fingers is just that… adolescent, immature, and ignorant drivel. To bunch everyone that voted against Mr. Obama as a racist is ridiculous and it shows your true colors.
Sure, talk smack until your fingers hurt, but don’t belittle a truly historic event that happened tonight by spouting the pure nonsense that you just typed out.
Sure, there are those that voted for Mr. McCain because the other person was a black man, but yeah, you better bet your butt that there were people voting for Mr. Obama simply because he is black, just like there were people that voted for Mrs. Clinton because she was a woman. It’s going to happen, just like smack talk, just do not bunch everyone of us into it.
Thank You…
i must admit i am very dissapointed. i am not effected by scare tactics at all. i stand by my philosophy and will do so until proven otherwise. i never thought McCain was the best choice, just the best of the two. truth be told i would have loved to see Ron Paul as POTUS, that was my first choice.
im not a poor sport so i offer the Obama supporters congratulations. enjoy it while it lasts.
personally i think this is going to be a disaster but only time will tell.
Barry won by playing to the center-right of the country.
I’m just wondering when he’s gonna start writing checks for poor people like this:
Boy, she’s going to be disappointed.
Either way, I don’t rely on the government, so I’ll be fine. I guess that can’t be said for the rest of your Obama lovers.
At least this was a peaceful transition, which is more than can be said for a lot of countries.
I for one welcome the coming socialists, where do I signup for the Obama gas card to get my tank filled daily?
EricF, you just gained my respect. Usually when i come on this website, i think everyone is ignorant. Yes, if it was Dr Paul running, than I would have difficulty differentiating the better candidate. The reason I believe he lost was because he was very unorganized, and his ideas were too new for most americans. I disagree on the fact you think this is going to be a disaster. Its also good to see Obama will have a House/Senate with democratic majority to work with.
What an interesting race! It makes Obama’s personal story all that more interesting. It’s amazing to think that it was only 6 or so months ago that Obama and Hillary were really going at each other. But Obama was successfully able to pull the party together and survive the mud slinging from McCain. It gives me more faith in his ability to pull this country together and push through these hard times. The true tests have yet to begin!
Also, Thanks to Nate and Michael for keeping this site up and running. I could always depend on you guys to provide balanced updates on the campaign trail and the community to provide (some) insightful views and opinions.
Thanks Crew! I look forward to YouDecide20012!!!
Which one of you jag babs is going to pay for my “Patriot” fee? Did you hear that??? that was the sound of billions of dollars leaving the USA. Good luck running a county that is hostile towards business.
President elect Barack Hussein Obama…. Wow I am in awe!! An amazing country and time we live in, only in the greatest nation that history has ever known is this possible. I hope we can all appreciate the transcendent symbolism and history of this day… This is the most historic and symbolic Presidential election we will ever witness.
Nice King– I have never protested as I saw some do when Bush won his second term. I accept the person that got elected.
Bob Sapp, RP lost because he was blacked out by the media and wasnt allowed to participate in the early debates.
Dems have control of everything now so when it all falls apart they will have only themselves to blame.
Why does everybody keep saying he’s the first African American president? He’s less than 1/8th African. I’m around 1/4th Irish, but it would be silly to call myself Irish.
My goodness EricF, I’m glad you offered congrats, but did it have to come with a tagline?
You know SUZIE Q, Stop being so ugly. I’m sure she didn’t mean it as a freebee, but rather that we will not be dependent on foreign oil so we won’t be spending excessive amounts of money on gas and that there is someone in the executive branch that cares about the struggles that WORKING/STRUGGLING Americans are going through to stay in their homes. But of course, deminish the excitement for those who dare to have hope. Or atleast try to.
Goodness Stalin, I hope you will be able to see the benifit of having Obama for President. If for no other reason than your blood preassure.
Really this was a hard campaign on both sides. And the differences were very clear. I hope that all of you who were making comments without doing research saying things like Barack is a Muslim or he’s a socialist. These things are damaging to him and to the goal of making America unified. Everyone needs to take responsiblity for what we do individually. Using excessive fuel, credit abuse, overuse of electricity, not making sure your kids excel in school…That is called doing our part in some ways. These things are not limited to any particular race or class. Some “rich” people have everything they own because of credit. We must do our part and hold our government, as a whole, accountable for their part in the mess we are in. So please let us go from this point on without bashing each other. You all have a great night and be safe. Thanks for the interesting “convo”.
NiceKing,
lol. I am anything but a Conservative. I guess you didn’t read my posts… My vote was for Obama as it was during the Democratic primary but none the less, there is no such thing as a wasted vote.
EricF – “Dems have control of everything now so when it all falls apart they will have only themselves to blame.”
Just like Bush did…. I don’t think the dems are going to batch it up like the majority republicans did.
Barack Obama 2008!!!!
Feels good to say it on here. I hope Babs, CG, Eric, Bill, and others will keep an open mind for the next four years.
Yay Obama!
Please, people. Let’s be gracious and fair, and not taunt the people who voted for McCain. That’s not very nice!
SuzieQ,
The video … I agree, it makes me chill to hear “I will not need to worry about my mortage” and I am neither American nor I live in the US. I support Obama in my mind and I am a “libtard” but not all libtards expect governements to do *their* part. Some of us work pretty hard too, allways did, always will (not all are for killing unborn humans, etc). Persons like that exist many (unfortunately) and contribute to discrediting an otherwise nobel and misunderstood ideology called socialism.
JD i know you are not mature enough to understand but Bush was faced with the greatest challenge of any American president in recent history. America was attacked and we had to respond with a show of force, because we did we have not been attacked since.
time will tell what kind of president Obama will be. my opinion is that this will be disasterous. just my opinion. dont get too worked up about it.
just know that one day i will be back here telling you “I told you so”.
When I said what I said, I was not bunching anyone. Simply read what I wrote, nowhere did you find me say. “People who did not vote for Barack Obama are racist.” If you find that, then you have a very rare medical condition.
What I was trying to say is that there have been some very Anti-Obama people out there. That have said and done things that I have found to be very scary. To the point where I believe there is an underlying ignorance, delusion, or mental illness. A quick word to throw out there rather than explain it deeply would be racist. By no means did I mean if you don’t vote for a person of another race that you are indeed racist. Being that the debates on this website have been more of irrational tit for tats I can understand why you misinterpreted what I wrote.
Sorry…..
While I did not mean to group everyone who voting Anti-Obama as being racist, you can help but see things like what SuzyQ Posted. A video of a black woman, and throwing comments like this around….
“I’m just wondering when he’s gonna start writing checks for poor people like this
Boy, she’s going to be disappointed.
Either way, I don’t rely on the government, so I’ll be fine. I guess that can’t be said for the rest of your Obama lovers.
At least this was a peaceful transition, which is more than can be said for a lot of countries.
I for one welcome the coming socialists, where do I signup for the Obama gas card to get my tank filled daily? ”
That’s a bit “I need a scripts for Seroquel and Zyprexa” filled or the black guy may steal my purse” type of comment.
EricF, ok if i agree with you that Bush was faced with a great challenge because of 9/11. Can you tell me why America ended up invading the country that had NOTHING to do with 9/11. It needed to act on the ones that had commited the foul acts, and they were/are in Pakistan/Afhganistan. It is nice to know that the U.S will be pulling out of Iraq within the coming years.
Amen Bob.
My opinion is that Poppa Bush didn’t like Sadaam so the so called “War on Terror” gave him the perfect opportunity to fool people into supporting a war in Iraq. Then when the american people realized that had bee bamboozled they devised another plan and call it “Helping Iraq become like the US” Though they will never be anything other than Iraq.
Thank god we have a President with an IQ higher then 70 elected to get us out of that mess. One who is willing to work with other countries to bring us toward peace rather than WAR, WAR, WAR.
Bob:
“Can you tell me why America ended up invading the country that had NOTHING to do with 9/11″
–because daddy and “oncles” needed the oil and Pakistan *does* have the bomb ?
Yes. People who disagree with the neo-conservative movement said as much tonight. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, Don’t lie to us. We have reacted to your lies. Mccain went for lies and this is why he lost.
Homerun!!!
Called it from the plate didn’t we Stalin??
What about that long walk?
JD my sincere apologies for adding you to the wrong eggs. i was just soo thrilled that i lost track of who my allies were.lol i just wrote any name that came on my mind…nd i even 4got to add the really bad eggs like SuzieQ and Stalin. i will pay $100 to see the look on EricF’s and SuzieQ’s faces the moment Obama was projeted as the winner. i said there was going to be a landslide and yes, thats exactly what happened.
oh and all those that are pessimisted about obama presidency, predicting it to be disastrous, i bet yall $100 each that it will nothing less than excellence. he will be re-elected in 2012. you watch!
oh and about that video…i dunno who asked him to vote for obama coz he will be paying her mortgage…she better go and withdraw her vote if she thinks she will be sitting on her phat butt home whilst Obama pay her mortgages – she will surely end up sleeping in a pay phone. lets do our part as hard working Americans…thats the only way we can blame the president/congress if they screw up.
i do acknowledge what “STOP THE IGNORANCE ” with sincere respect and i think we should all read that comment 10times… so we dont lose focus in doing our part. thanks y’all.
ps: yeh nate is a conservative. lol (thankx nate & michael)
“lets do our part as hard working Americans…thats the only way we can blame the president/congress if they screw up.”
Now, that’s sensible talk.
Congratulations to all Americans and a bigger and warmer congratulation to President George W Bush. While the rest of the world celebrate this achievement, I want to thank you for making this possible. The world, particularly Iraq will now believe that America stands fo democracy. We don’t only preach democracy and fight other nations to implant democracy into their system if we do not demonstrate how embedded our faith is in democracy. This is a testimony of that commitment. Well done!!!!!!!!!
Why attack a country for what a couple of people from that country did anyway? By that rationale I’d be fighting the Indonesians right now after the Bali bombings, but that’s a bit silly really.
I’m a little sad that Ron Paul and Ralph Nader never made it to a major debate. The real tragedy is the system that doesn’t allow third party candidates a real shot by keeping them out of debates. They’re both in their 70s now, let’s hope there’s some heirs coming through, long live the brutally honest politician.
Congrats to the least-worst candidate Barack Obama, let’s hope Bush doesn’t start war with Iran before he takes office, or that Obama doesn’t do it once in.
Iranian oil sold in euros
To all Americans I wish good luck, and stay out of debt. There’s a great journal by a guy that has predicted just about every major event in the past 20 years, he seems to cut through the partisan BS and just give the truth. His journal is used by USA Today, CNN, The Economist and many more, it gives some great insight into what is coming.
Trends Journal
Peace and good luck, I hope Obama pulls through for us all, but we’ll see…
Congratulations to all Americans for making a wise decision!
i am so happy obama is president…<33333
I am very disapointed w/ the outcome of presidency race, I really think that McCain should be the one swearing in to office in next year.
Well the testing begins as Joe Biden says. Russia today(5 November 2008) announced that they are stationing missles on the Polish border.
Susan, Stalin,
WOW…
Antonio
Thanks, I was going for the “Wow” factor…It worked for Barry
Oh my Stalin… =p That is likely to get removed quickly… lol
Susan,
You must be seriously uneducated. Your response isn’t worth even a rebuttal. Once you read at least a paragraph or two about the history and events leading up to 9/11, then come back and we will talk.
HELLLLLLLLLLLLO…….I said the scum of the world is testing us already.But no the liberal left is more concerned with the political correct speech on this site than acknowledging the inexperience of the Messiah.Now you see why Europe wanted “O” as President.
Nate is on vacation as he said in his ‘Thank You’ article. From what I see, it was a kneejerk reaction to susan’s obvious attempt to troll these message boards and cause feelings of angst amongst the participants on this board.
I hope that he takes both of the comments down so we can get back to talking about the real things going on now…
Congratulations Barack Obama!
I didn’t vote for him, but he is my president now and hopefully he will be able to deal with the immense job set before him.
As if “O”’s election with his total lack of experience,dubious friends and being naive isn’t enough ………If anything hapened to him we get the “gaffe that keeps giving” as President.
Congrats to Barack Obama!
Also congrats to McCain for fighting a long, hard race and bowing out gracefully.
Yes we can?
YES WE DID!!!
I LOVE B. OBAMA>>>>
I’m more Barry Goldwater than Barry Obama.!!!
OBAMA ANNOUNCES TRANSITION TEAM
With Barack Obama and Joe Biden’s election, this planning process will be now be formally organized as the Obama-Biden Transition Project, a 501(c)(4) organization to ensure a smooth transition from one administration to the next. The work of this entity will be overseen by three co-chairs: John Podesta, Valerie Jarrett, and Pete Rouse.
The co-chairs will be assisted by an advisory board comprised of individuals with significant private and public sector experience: Carol Browner, William Daley, Christopher Edley, Michael Froman, Julius Genachowski, Donald Gips, Governor Janet Napolitano, Federico Peña, Susan Rice, Sonal Shah, Mark Gitenstein, and Ted Kaufman. Gitenstein and Kaufman will serve as co-chairs of Vice President-elect Biden’s transition team.
Supervising the day-to-day activities of the transition will be:
Transition Senior Staff:
Chris Lu – Executive Director
Dan Pfeiffer – Communications Director
Stephanie Cutter – Chief Spokesperson
Cassandra Butts – General Counsel
Jim Messina – Personnel Director
Patrick Gaspard – Associate Personnel Director
Christine Varney – Personnel Counsel
Melody Barnes – Co-Director of Agency Review
Lisa Brown – Co-Director of Agency Review
Phil Schiliro – Director of Congressional Relations
Michael Strautmanis – Director of Public Liaison and Intergovernmental Affairs
Katy Kale – Director of Operations
Brad Kiley – Director of Operations
The phone number for the transition headquarters is 202-540-3000. The official website for the transition is http://www.change.gov and it will be live later today.
“McCain offers his concession speech, urges unity”
I’d rather title that:
“McCain gives a lesson on sense of civic responsibility”
EricF say it with me, President Barack Hussein Obama! I know you where upset last night. But our Country decided to truly put Country First. So to any left over contempt/anger/conspiracy theory you may have, its time to drop them and come back down to earth so we can all get along
OBAMA! OBAMA! OBAMA!
Is Obama the first one to take the White House with a PhD? Who are the others of not?
** Nuked by Admin **
Note: Profanity is not acceptable here, please take on a more respectful tone, thanks!
Ok, things have been sorted out, let’s try to stay a bit civilized here.
The man’s name is Barack Hussein Obama, no disrespect meant, I was just using it the same way I would have posted John Sidney McCain or Hillary Rodham Clinton since it was my official announcement.
We all need to lighten up a bit on his middle name, it is his actual middle name. His parents probably didn’t realize the connotations derived from it. Plus, he’s president now, so who cares?
Nobody is a loser here since in America, we enjoy peaceful transitions of power. We may not all like the outcome, but there was no blood shed and yet we have a new executive branch, it’s a tribute to the decency of humanity.
That doesn’t mean everyone will be happy with the results, but then there is usually half the country who isn’t.
Be gracious and respectful to your fellow Americans, since that’s what we all are in the end.
So I hope everyone stays around as we continue onward as YouDecidePolitics.com, which will be arriving in the coming weeks.
Until then, I’ll be covering things day to day, though with less frequency, but I hope everyone will continue to make this an entertaining place to visit.
Nate i did not use any profanity once. Why was my post deleted. I think i showed legitimate reasons why our country is not in a good position come Obama’s acceptance.
Your name I let slide during the election, however, now you’re saying that our president sucks. I wouldn’t have allowed a BUSH_SUCKS before so consider yourself warned to change your name. I believe in the motto of country first and since I asked people not to needlessly run down Bush since it wasn’t good for the country, I will apply that evenly and now ask people not to needlessly run down Obama in a similar fashion.
You did use profanity, you just tried to censor yourself. I’m sick of much of what I read today, from both sides. Argue on the points, on facts, on issues, but leave the rest aside.
The community will continue to police itself. Everyone make good use of the “Report” button for anything inappropriate.
Stop- Obama said he wouls look at, consider, or something like that concerning off-shore drilling. He said no to that big oil field in Alaska. Right now that pipe line is not flowing 100 %. If it dops to a certain level, it stops. Than 20 % of all our oil produded in America is gone. Hope he chances his mind…………………………………………… -Anotonio– Iraq has been prodcuing very small amout of oil. It is only recently that supply is getting up to spead. So to say Bush has gained from their oil is impossible. ..Iran has much oil but prduces little. They asked oil companies to come in to help, even American oil companies I hope Congress cleans up what caused the bail out problem. Starting with Frank and Dodd. Require proper measure to buy a home. Legislation to solve voter fraud. Stop funding to Acorn. Require D and stop same day registration and vote… Spending must be watched. Obama, The Speaker, and Reid could easily increas our National debt by 3-5 $ Trillion. United Ntion to help poor is $ 865 Billion. I did hear Obama say in recent days he would control spending. However hr will have a lot of pressure with his promises plus the Speaker and Reid. Good luck to him
whatever ill support him for four years until a republican takes over the United Socialist States of America.
YAAY FOR OBAMA!!!
No one likes a sore loser, so for those who backed the wrong horse and backed McCain & Palin…LMAO…YOU LOSE!…LOL
I think if McCain had a running mate who actually knew the biological difference between their ass and an elbow then he’d have stood a better chance. I genuinely believe a lot of people were turned off because there’d be a strong possibility had McCain won he’d have died on the job and Palin would be the next President. That scenario was just too risky I feel for some voters.
IndiMinded, you said:
“McCain’s concession speech was first rate, and it blew me away. He really does value unity and put country first.”
Too bad you didn’t realize that before you voted, huh?
Here’s to President Barack Hussein Obama, II. May all your campaign promises be lies – otherwise, we’re all screwed.
Stalin, my small business will close its doors Jan. 1. My husband’s will downsize its employees and run one year. We’ll see from there. How are you doing?
Kendale…If you pay attention to the video that SusieQ posted she is not talking about gas prices going down. She means exactly what she said. Unfortunately, but true, there are a lot of poor African Americans in this country who grabbed onto Obama like he was their savior. This people believe that they will be getting a check from Obama even if they don’t pay taxes. He did clarify that but they are only going to listen to the first speech and they will believe he will get them money. Sad but True. A lot of them are also not very educated. They are looking for an opportunity and something to believe in, Obama is that opportunity. I am not putting them down for that but if you look around the country and you see communities where there are poor people they are expecting help.
Ken…you are right about Obama and if he hadn’t run as an African American (instead run on the fact that he was 50% white) he may not have won. Maybe someone can explain to me why everyone uses African American for a black person even though they were born in this country. From know on I will put other on any application I fill out and call myself an English American.
If we are trying to unite this country we need to get rid of the references to our ancestors birth country we are all Americans and until we stop putting other titles in front of American I don’t see this country ever truly uniting.
Independent…Woodrow Wilson had a PhD
nzpudding…I do believe that Sarah Palin knows there are 50 not 57 states in the US. And that caribou do not live in the ocean.
But I realized a while back that it never mattered what Obama said or didn’t say. The MSM and other people decided day one that he would be the next president no matter what they had to do to get him there.
I just hope that he can live up to the expectations he has put out there for the American people. Time will tell. We only have 2 years left and we can get the republicans back in charge in congress. Don’t forget that Clinton’s best years were when he had republicans as majority in congress.
“Too bad you didn’t realize that before you voted, huh?”
Difficult for ANYBODY to realize that when he did not show any of that integrity during his campaign.
“Here’s to President Barack Hussein Obama, II. May all your campaign promises be lies – otherwise, we’re all screwed.”
Have the decency to let it play out before you start crying.
“Stalin, my small business will close its doors Jan. 1. My husband’s will downsize its employees and run one year. We’ll see from there. How are you doing? ”
Boo hoo.
Thank you for your intelligent comment, Will, as always.
I am very proud of the civility and respect paid by President Bush, Senator John McCain, and President-elect Obama these past few days. All of them acknowledged each other respectfully, putting country first, and calling for unity. This is one of the great pulses that runs through the U.S.
Very well said, Michael. I hope we the followers will emulate our leaders.
DJS
“nzpudding…I do believe that Sarah Palin knows there are 50 not 57 states in the US. And that caribou do not live in the ocean.”
Are you sure about that? Have you seen the charges some people from McCain’s camp are making? Making a mistake on 57 states is not the same as not knowing what countries make up Nafta and not knowing that Africa is a Continent. All of those could have been mistakes from Both Obama and Palin. But to claim that a mistake means the person just doesn’t know the true answer isn’t being reasonable. Also for the record let me say that i am very skeptical of the attacks McCain’s campaign has pushed on Palin.
” Don’t forget that Clinton’s best years were when he had republicans as majority in congress.”
Yes lets also remember that the majority of Bush’s years also had a Republican Majority. Which is a long time. So if we are going to start nailing the Congress to shift the blame away from the executive take into context that the republican majority rules congress years before bush got into office and 6 years after wards. Which would possibly mean that neither Clinton or Bush can really be blamed for anything.
“But I realized a while back that it never mattered what Obama said or didn’t say. The MSM and other people decided day one that he would be the next president no matter what they had to do to get him there.”
Take into context that the media didn’t cover any of the negative backlash of the findings of the Iraq war before the war during the war and after the war. Even right now as evidence comes up in the senate or the house judiciary committee the media completely ignores it. This can be viewed as supporting Bush/Republicans before the fact and after the fact. A lot of this could have been used to help Obama but they didn’t bring it up. If the media ends up being just as bias in favor of Obama as they were for Bush it will be viewed as Media in the tank for Obama while disregarding how they have operated in the past.
http://www.youtube.com/wa.....kev1amkXnY
I think obama is in for a surprise is he thinks the media’s going to remain biased in his favor. They have short attention spans. For example, check out the Washington Post. They are already in confessional for their bias in the election.