by Jon Swaine | The Telegraph
• He collects Spider-Man and Conan the Barbarian comics
• He was known as “O’Bomber” at high school for his skill at basketball
• His name means “one who is blessed” in …

by Stephen Zunes
I had really wanted to celebrate Barack Obama’s remarkable victory for
a day or so before becoming cynical again. I really did.
And yet, less than 24 hours after the first polls closed, the
president-elect chose …

by Jayne Lyn Stahl
While in the midst of basking in the afterglow of Tuesday’s election results, the longest high I’ve had without inhaling, I got an e-mail from a friend this morning alerting me to …

by JEFF ZELENY and PETER BAKER | New York Times
CHICAGO — President-elect Barack Obama said Thursday afternoon that he selected Representative Rahm Emanuel, a fierce and consummate navigator of the capital’s political terrain, as …

At 11:00 p.m. EST, MSNBC projected that Obama will become the next President of the United States. In shots from Chicago, Times Square, college campuses, and cities across the country, cheers arose simultaneously from …

In bellwether Perry County, the Ku Klux Klan once thrived. Now, Republican truckers and coal miners are backing Barack Obama.
by Walter Shapiro | Salon.com
The Saturday afternoon scene seemed ripped out of a Republican playbook. A …

by Al Gore
In 2000, the entire election came down to a small number of votes in one county in Florida.
Four years later, we came up short by an average of nine voters per precinct in …

by Bev Harris, Founder – Black Box Voting
Black Box Voting was asked by YouTube to prepare an easy to follow public education program for Protecting the Count on ELECTION NIGHT and the days that follow. …