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Barack Obama
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Election Coverage from MPR
National public Radio's Juan Williams, Emmy Award-winner and best-selling author of "Eyes on the Prize: America's Civil Rights Years," joins Midday to discuss the history of the civil rights movement leading to the election of the country's first black president.
(Midday, 11/06/2008)
Democrat Barack Obama defeated Republican John McCain by almost 10 percentage points in Minnesota, but that wave of support didn't propel U.S. Senate candidate Al Franken to a decisive victory over Norm Coleman.
(11/06/2008)
With hundreds of jobs to fill and only 10 weeks until Inauguration Day, Obama and his transition team confronted a formidable task complicated by his anti-lobbyist campaign rhetoric.
(11/05/2008)
His storied election behind him and weighty
problems in his face, Barack Obama turned Wednesday to the task of
building an administration in times of crisis as Americans and the
world absorbed his history-shattering achievement as the first
black leader ascending to the presidency.
(11/05/2008)
Minnesota Democrats defended reliable
presidential turf from a Republican incursion and delivered the state for Barack Obama. But neither side expects Minnesota to fall off the White House
target list for next time.
(11/05/2008)
A group of black Democrats gathered in a Minneapolis restaurant on Election Night to watch the returns and cheer on local black candidates. But the main event was the race between Barack Obama and John McCain. By the end of the night, they all saw what many thought they'd never see in their lifetimes, an African American elected to the highest office in the country.
(11/05/2008)
His name etched in history as America's first
black president, Barack Obama turned from the jubilation of victory
to the sober challenge of leading a nation worried about economic
crisis, two unfinished wars and global uncertainty.
(11/05/2008)
Barack Obama came to St. Paul in June to claim the Democratic nomination, a milestone that resident Brian Grandison said at the time would be "empty and meaningless" if the Illinois senator wasn't elected president.
(11/05/2008)
Photos from election night in the United States.
(11/04/2008)
While John McCain rushed
around to seven states for last-minute campaigning on Monday, Obama
didn't appear before voters until after 11 a.m., the first of just
three events for the day.
(11/03/2008)
Candidate snapshot
Party: Democrat
Biography
Date of Birth: 08/04/1961
Place of Birth: Honolulu, Hawaii
Education: JD, Harvard Law School, 1991
BA, Columbia University, 1983
Attended Occidental College
Religion: United Church of Christ
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