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Article: Are the winds of change really blowing for Obama? ; Washington Correspondent
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- The Irish Times
- Article date:
- October 31, 2009
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As the first anniversary of Obama's election approaches, the US
is in wait-and-see mode, with the euphoria surrounding his victory
clouded by his perceived lack of progress on troops and on
Guantanamo
ON THE EVENING of November 4th, 2008, television crews pre-
positioned themselves in party headquarters to transmit standard
election night fare. But the real story was in neighbourhoods across
the country, as millions of Americans gathered in the streets to
celebrate the election of Barack Obama, 44th president of the United
States of America.
"It busted the red-blue divide in the US," says Alabama-born
Scott Lucas, the founder of the Enduring America website and a
professor of US politics at ...