Change has come to America, Barack Hussein Obama has won the 2008 U.S. presidential election, defeating John McCain, and will be sworn in as the first African-American to hold the nation's highest office. Obama claims historic US presidential has win. 
Democrat Barack Obama captured the White House after an extraordinary two-year campaign, defeating Republican John McCain to make history as the first black to be elected U.S. president.
Obama won at least 338 Electoral College votes, far more than the 270 he needed. With results in from more than three-quarters of U.S. precincts, he led McCain by 52 percent to 47 percent in the popular vote.
A first-term Illinois senator who will now be sworn in as the 44th U.S. president on January 20, 2009, Obama said he would work to ease the country's sharp political divisions and listen to those who voted against him.
"The road ahead will be long. Our climb will be steep. 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," he said.
McCain's hopes for a surprise win evaporated with losses in a string of key battleground states led by the big prizes of Ohio and Florida, the states that sent Democrats to defeat in the last two elections.
McCain, a 72-year-old Arizona senator and former Vietnam War prisoner, called Obama to congratulate him and praised his rival's inspirational and precedent-shattering campaign.
"We have come to the end of a long journey," McCain told supporters. "I urge all Americans who supported me to join me in not just congratulating him but offering our next president our goodwill."
Reuters - CNN..
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