Obama wins over McCain, he seized command of the race for the White House Tuesday night, defeating John McCain in Virgina, Ohio and Iowa. Cheers went up each time Obama was announced the winner in another state.
President Bush said, “May God bless whoever wins tonight”, at White House dinner guests, where his tenure runs out on Jan. 20. Bush will depart with the economy almost certainly in recession and millions of Americans counting their investment losses after stock market swoon. The next commander in chief will inherit two wars, as well, one in Iraq, the other in Afghanistan.

Obama had 202 of the 270 electoral votes needed to win the White House. McCain had 114. The Democrat’s states included Iowa, Ohio, Wisconsin, Michigan, New York, Rhode Island, Minnesota, Pennsylvania, New Hampshire, Vermont, Connecticut, Delaware, Illinois, Maine, Massachusetts, Maryland and New Jersey, as well as the District of Columbia. McCain had Texas, Utah, Arkansas, Kansas, Kentucky, Tennessee, Oklahoma, Wyoming, Alabama, South Carolina, Louisiana, West Virginia and North Dakota. Totals from 41 percent of all U.S. precincts showed Obama with 50.5 percent and McCain with 48.3.

Now, Obama becomes first black presiden, he was elected on Tuesday night in a historic triumph that overcome racial barriers as old as America itself. He becomes the 44th president after Bush.