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Obama picked as 44th President05 Nov '08, 18:53Senator Barack Obama has been elected to become the 44th President of the United States of America, beating rival John McCain in the elections which took place yesterday.I really wanted to stay awake to hear the results come in, but couldn't really stay awake much past midnight when the first results started coming in. So when I went to sleep, McCain was ahead 8 points to 3. That can't have lasted long though since Obama had over 300 electoral votes by 6.10am when I turned on the television compared to McCains less than 200 votes. As things stand at the moment, votes are at 349 to 162 in Obama's favour. 270 votes were required to win so it's easy to see why this election was called fairly early. So it's the result I wanted, and seemingly most of the rest of the world wanted. The question now is how good a president will he be? Only time will tell that but the feeling at the moment appears to be that America has turned a page on the last 8 years and things are going to be different.
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