"As Lincoln said to a nation far more divided than ours, 'We are not enemies, but friends. Watch Obama tell voters "all things are possible" »Īnd he recited the words of Abraham Lincoln, the first Republican in White House, to call for unity. "To those Americans whose support I have yet to earn - I may not have won your vote, but I hear your voices, I need your help, and I will be your president, too," he said. "While the Democratic Party has won a great victory tonight, we do so with a measure of humility and determination to heal the divides that have held back our progress," Obama said.
Read about the Senate racesīut Obama pledged to work across party lines and listen to the 46 percent of voters who chose McCain. Democrats picked up Senate seats in New Hampshire, New Jersey, North Carolina and Virginia, among others. Obama will also be working with a heavily Democratic Congress. The senator from Arizona called Obama to congratulate him, and Obama told him that he was eager to sit down and talk about how the two of them can work together. "Today, I was a candidate for the highest office in the country I love so much, and tonight, I remain her servant," McCain said. McCain pledged Tuesday night to help Obama lead. With Obama's win, he becomes the first African-American to win the White House. I promise you - we as a people will get there," Obama said in Chicago before an estimated crowd of up to 240,000 people. We may not get there in one year or even one term, but America - I have never been more hopeful than I am tonight that we will get there. When Indiana fell into Obama's column Wednesday morning, he had a 349-163 lead over his rival in electoral votes, with only 26 undecided.Īs he claimed victory Tuesday night, Obama told supporters, "change has come to America." With McCain on the ropes, an Obama victory in Florida sounded the death knell.
(Missouri and North Carolina were still counting votes Wednesday, but it appeared one or two of them could become blue-state converts as well.) Indiana hadn't voted for a Democrat since Lyndon Johnson in 1964. See your state's county-by-county totalsĪs polls closed from East to West, Obama kept hammering McCain, as he snatched away Iowa, Colorado, New Mexico and Nevada - states that had been in President Bush's column in 2004.Īnd Wednesday morning, Obama added Indiana to the list of states he'd turned from red to blue. Obama then delivered an uppercut in Virginia, a state that had not voted for a Democratic president since 1964. Watch Obama pay tribute to McCain »Įarly voting totals in the East suggested things would go traditionally, with McCain taking most of the Southeast, Obama most of the Northeast.īut then things quickly changed, as the senator from Illinois struck - first in Pennsylvania and then in the Midwest state of Ohio, states McCain had to win in his bid for the Oval Office. Very importantly, it's the youth vote, the 18-to-29-year-old," said the Harvard University professor and former presidential adviser. It is the bigger black vote that came out. It is the Latino vote we just heard about. It isn't quite there, but with Barack Obama, for the first time, it's won. is a new coalition, a new order emerging. Read what analysts had to say about the victory » "I think this is the passing of an old order," CNN senior political analyst David Gergen said as the results rolled in Tuesday night and the outcome became increasingly evident. Riding a Democratic tide that bolstered the party's presence in both houses of Congress, Obama snared about 63 million votes to McCain's 55.8 million, according to totals early Wednesday.Īccording to exit polls, Obama crushed McCain among women voters (56 percent to 43 percent) voters under 30 (66 percent to 32 percent) African-American voters (95 percent to 4 percent) Latino voters (66 percent to 32 percent) first-time voters (68 percent to 31 percent) and voters making less than $100,000 a year (55 percent to 43 percent).
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