2008 ELECTION RESULTS
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ELECTION 2008 RESULTS
U. S. SENATE
VOLUME 120 ISSUE 55
Jim Slattery Democrat
60%
Pat Roberts Republican
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BARACK OBAMA WINS PRESIDENCY
U.S. HOUSE 2ND DISTRICT
51%√
Nancy Boyda Lynn Jenkins Democrat Republican
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U.S. HOUSE 3RD DISTRICT
YES HE CAN
Dennis Moore Democrat
40%
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Nick Jordan Republican
STATE SENATE
62%
38%
Marci Francisco Scott Morgan
Democrat Republican
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0. 05 percent sales tax to fund maintenance for the buses
PROPOSITIONS 2 & 3
0. 2 percent sales tax to fund public transit
YES NO
70% 30%
ASSOCIATED PRESS
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YES NO
69% 31%
President-elect Barack Obama delivers his victory speech at his election night party at Grant Park in Chicago on Tuesday night. As of 1 a.m., Obama held a 338-160 lead in electoral votes. Obama will be sworn in as the first black president of the United States on Inauguration Day, Jan. 20, 2009.
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Obama supporters overwhelmed by historic outcome
lan Habe, Olathe senior, Annie Harrigan, Pairie Village senior, Kim Davis, Kansas City senior, and Katelyn Stroud, Leawood senior, scream in celebration toward the end of President-elect Barack Obama's acceptance speech Tuesday night at Abe & Jake's Landing.
BY ANDY GREENHAW agreenhaw@kansan.com
"Yes we did!" was the chant that erupted from Abe and Jake's Landing after Barack Obama sealed his name in history as the first black president of the United States.
The packed room of students and Lawrence residents jumped, screamed, cheered and cried. A woman carried a life-sized cardboard Obama cutout through the sea of waving arms and Obama-Biden signs.
Gina Burrows, vice president of KU Young Democrats, said Tuesday night would be the proudest moment she would ever live to tell her children about.
Dream' speech; and I get to remember the night America took a new direction," the Salt Lake City junior said shortly after Sen. John McCain gave his speech commending Obama.
"People remember where they were when Kennedy was shot; where they were during Martin Luther King's 'I Have a
"Call it! Call it!" was shouted by eager Obama supporters throughout the night as a giant projector featured CNN's exit
SEE DEMOCRATS ON PAGE 6A
Obama records electoral college landslide victory
BY DAVID ESPO ASSOCIATED PRESS
WASHINGTON — Barack Obama swept to victory as the nation's first black president Tuesday night in an electoral college landslide that overcame racial barriers as old as America itself. "Change has come," he told to a huge throng of jubilant supporters.
The son of a black father from Kenya and a white mother from Kansas, the Democratic senator from Illinois sealed his historic triumph by defeating Republican Sen. John McCain in a string of wins in hard-fought battleground states — Ohio, Florida, Virginia, Iowa and more.
On a night for Democrats to savor.
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