'It's been a long time coming, but tonight... change has come to America,' the president-elect told jubilant supporters in Chicago. The triumphant 47-year-old son of a black Kenyan father and a white mother from Kansas spoke after romping to a landslide victory over crushed Republican candidate John McCain. It was the crowning moment of a staggering rise from being a virtually unknown first-time US senator two years ago to become the most powerful man in the world.By 4.30am, Obama had collected 333 electoral votes to Mr McCain's 155.
The result comes as a historic landmark in America’s struggle from the shackles of slavery to the segregation of the Deep South in the 1960s to finally achieving civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr’s ‘dream’ with Americans of all colours and creeds voting a black man into the White House.
Source: Daily Mail
