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WASHINGTON--Democrat Barack Obama was headed for certain victory late Tuesday in his quest to become the first black president of the United States.
The victory will make the Illinois senator the nation's 44th president.
As polls closed throughout the United States, Obama, 47, was a sure winner in the states of Ohio, Pennsylvania, Illinois, New Hampshire, Michigan and Wisconsin.
His Republican rival, Arizona Senator John McCain, 72, looked set to snare North Dakota and South Carolina.
Voter turnout was apparently very heavy.
Obama campaigned vigorously under the slogan of "change," while McCain stuck to the Republican policies espoused by the White House incumbent, George W. Bush.
The election centered around the unpopular U.S.-led war in Iraq and the mounting global financial crisis that started in the United States.
On Jan. 20, 2009, Obama will be sworn in as the first Democrat commander in chief of the United States in eight years, following Bill Clinton.
His running mate, Senator Joe Biden of Delaware, will be vice president.
Obama was born Aug. 4, 1961, in Honolulu to a Kenyan father and a Caucasian mother from Kansas. His parents divorced when he was a child, and he spent four years in Indonesia after his mother remarried an Indonesian.
He returned to Hawaii in 1971 and was raised by his maternal grandparents.
A graduate of Columbia University and Harvard Law School, Obama was elected to the U.S. Senate in 2004, where he is the only black senator.
The victory will make the Illinois senator the nation's 44th president.
As polls closed throughout the United States, Obama, 47, was a sure winner in the states of Ohio, Pennsylvania, Illinois, New Hampshire, Michigan and Wisconsin.
His Republican rival, Arizona Senator John McCain, 72, looked set to snare North Dakota and South Carolina.
Voter turnout was apparently very heavy.
Obama campaigned vigorously under the slogan of "change," while McCain stuck to the Republican policies espoused by the White House incumbent, George W. Bush.
The election centered around the unpopular U.S.-led war in Iraq and the mounting global financial crisis that started in the United States.
On Jan. 20, 2009, Obama will be sworn in as the first Democrat commander in chief of the United States in eight years, following Bill Clinton.
His running mate, Senator Joe Biden of Delaware, will be vice president.
Obama was born Aug. 4, 1961, in Honolulu to a Kenyan father and a Caucasian mother from Kansas. His parents divorced when he was a child, and he spent four years in Indonesia after his mother remarried an Indonesian.
He returned to Hawaii in 1971 and was raised by his maternal grandparents.
A graduate of Columbia University and Harvard Law School, Obama was elected to the U.S. Senate in 2004, where he is the only black senator.
Barack Obama est élu président des Etats-Unis
Barack Obama, 47 ans, est désormais le 44e président des Etats-Unis et le 4 novembre 2008 fera date dans l'histoire du pays. Il était 5 h 5, heure de Paris, lorsque les médias américains ont annoncé la victoire du candidat démocrate face à John McCain. Barack Obama devient ainsi le premier président noir des Etats-Unis. Moins d'une heure plus tard, le nouveau président était sur la scène du Grant Park de Chicago – son fief – pour fêter sa victoire et assurer aux Américains que "le changement est arrivé".
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