Archive - Nov 5, 2008

• Reports from Phoenix, Arizona
• Reports from Virginia
• Reports from Harlem
• Reports from North Carolina
• Reports on House and Senate Races
• State Bans on Same Sex Marriages

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• US-Led Air Strikes Hit Afghan Wedding Party
• Israeli/Palestinian Ceasefire Tested
• Mexican Interior Minister Killed in Plane Crash in Downtown Mexico City
• Hundreds of Taiwanese Protest Chinese Visit
• Violence Escalates in Iraq
• FCC Approves White Spaces for Wireless Use

Bans on same-sex marriage have been voted into state constitutions in California and Florida, with results in from 95 percent of polling stations. Same sex marriage was already illegal in Florida before the measure, but in California, the legal status of some 18,000 couples hang in the balance. From San Francisco, Puck Lo has the story.

Barack Obama, President-Elect, the 44th President of the United States – the first African American President. An historic moment sure to be felt around the world…. An emotional moment for supporters through out the country, Obama pledged something different.  Obama, a community organizer, Harvard Law School Graduate, Constitutional law professor, IL states senate, US Senate, and now President-Elect. His landslide victory encompassed traditionally blue states hard fought, like Pennsylvania, and conservative red states which include Virginia, Iowa, Colorado and Nevada and swing states of Florida and Ohio.  In the most expensive campaign in US history, Obama opted out of public financing, giving him a massive monetary advantage to compliment his superb grassroots organizing efforts