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Obama sweeps to victory as first black president
Barack Obama, riding a wave of economic discontent and with the wind of history at his back, was elected the nation's first black president last night in a sweeping victory that stretched from the deep South to the frontier West, ending eight years of Republican rule and beginning a new era in America's complex racial history.
In record numbers, a broad swath of voters - men, women, blacks,...
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