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Thursday, November 20th, 2008
Things are not looking good on the bailout front for GM, Chrysler, and Ford. Economist Paul Krugman argues that we should put aside gripes about private jets and multi-million-dollar CEO pay because a $25B "bridge loan" to Detroit would protect 1-3 million jobs. Twenty-four-year-old Lennon just got a degree in ...
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Thursday, November 20th, 2008
The wildfire rumor of the transition so far: whether Obama will pick Hillary Clinton as Secretary of State. Political junkies are speculating about Machiavellian strategizing in the Clinton and Obama camps, about the possible effect on Clinton's chances in 2012 or 2016, and, oh yeah, even about whether the choice ...
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Monday, November 17th, 2008
The campaign trend of naming babies after Obama has proven fertile. Meet Lawrence Barack Adams, who came into the world on election day. Here he is snoozing on his very own commemorative copy of the Washington Post. Photo taken by Richard from DC, presumably proud voter and proud father.
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Friday, November 14th, 2008
California's Prop 8, probably the most scrutinized ballot measure of 2008, was one of three same-sex marriage bans that passed last Tuesday. (The others were in Florida and Arizona.) Gay-rights advocates are questioning its legality and planning nation-wide protests tomorrow. Several anti-Prop 8 marches have already taken place since the ...
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Wednesday, November 12th, 2008
Madison Guy (who may be probutcool -- hard to tell) is an editor, writer, and photographer in Madison, Wisconsin. Yesterday, on Veterans Day, he took the long way to work. Via a memorial to those killed in Iraq and Afghanistan. "[T]he markers seemed to go on forever," he said, "stretching ...
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Wednesday, November 12th, 2008
Nineteen-year-old Ashley Adcox, who counts the Bible and The Bell Jar among her favorite books, voted for the first time last week. She says, of this self-portrait, "I've wanted to take this photo on my first election ever since I saw the STUNNING photographic coverage of the first election in ...
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Wednesday, November 12th, 2008
In Grant Park, watching Obama's speech
[Gregwar / Flickr]
Reactions to Obama's election-night speech are still turning up as people recover from election hangovers and resume blogging. Although 46% of voters chose McCain last Tuesday, negative critiques of Obama's speech haven't been easy to find. So here are a few positive reviews. ...
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Friday, November 7th, 2008
People around the world have been following this American election very closely. Many felt they had a lot invested in it's outcome, and it seems they were largely elated about Obama's win.
James Njuguna is a photojournalist in Nairobi who covers crime. He took this shot in Nairobi's Kibera slum on ...
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Friday, November 7th, 2008
Conceding [janeyhenning / Flickr]
McCain was widely praised by mainstream media and political blogs for a gracious concession speech, though sometimes with a footnote that it contrasted in tone with his campaign. Those same two sentiments were largely reflected on regular blogs.
Broodingcynyc at Brooding Cynyx voted for McCain and felt his ...
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Friday, November 7th, 2008
[amuk2006 / Flickr]
We're going to stick around for a little while. Through the inauguration at the end of January. To ease you through any post-election blues.
Of course without the full team, things will be somewhat different around here. I'll be working part-time to continue bookmarking the tsumani of election-day content, ...
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Friday, November 7th, 2008
Inside joke here: when the co-curators introduced
themselves, Jake asked them to talk about their
favorite Beatle. [Mark Sardella / Flickr]
BallotVox bids a sad goodbye today to its remarkable co-curators. Sarolta Cump, Misa Dayson, James Mills, Ann Raber, Sue Salinger, and volunteer curator Roshan Abraham have been the fiery engine of ...
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Thursday, November 6th, 2008
New Englander PB&J gives a rather mellower signal that he's happy with the outcome of the election. He says, "I went to bed early and confident on election night but I got up at 4 AM with a "what if" on my mind, so I checked the news to make ...
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Thursday, November 6th, 2008
Emily Podwoiski was, oh, moderately excited that Obama won. (Hat tip to Sue Salinger.)
[Emily Podwoiski / Vimeo]
Sorry, should have warned you about the volume.
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Thursday, November 6th, 2008
From Julie Vaicius, here's a little girl with a patriotic election-night "serenade." It's not clear which candidate she was rooting for. (Thanks, Sue Salinger.)
[Julie Vaicius / Vimeo]
Somewhat later that night -- at 2:00 am -- melish99 filmed Obama supporters feeling that same American spirit.
"Dawn's early light" might have been a ...
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Thursday, November 6th, 2008
The still photos of election night have a magic of their own, but adding a layer of sound fills in the picture, so to speak. Here's a rash of videos that document the whooping and honking across the country. They're mostly bumpy, out of focus, on the fly -- but ...
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Thursday, November 6th, 2008
Sue Salinger found this video of an Obama-supporting family in California. They're talking about their votes on a moonlit night just after casting their ballots. Erick, a 30-year-old who likes Sade and Pablo Neruda, first films his giddy mom and slightly embarrassed teenaged brother (a first-time voter). Then he turns ...
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Wednesday, November 5th, 2008
Jesse Jackson was far from the only American with tears streaming last night after Obama's victory was announced.
Gueorgui Tcherednitchenko, originally from Moscow, now calls Paris home. He's a talented young photographer who explained via email that he's not a professional photojournalist -- yet! Last night/this morning in Paris, he attended ...
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Wednesday, November 5th, 2008
From Massachusetts to Oregon, Obama supporters embraced.
Joanna Rieke in Boston aspires to make art (photographs, illustrations, design) accessible to anyone. Here's the image she saw when Obama was announced as the next president. She created it at Boston's Fairmont Hotel, the election-night headquarters for the state's Democratic Party.
[joanna.rieke / Flickr]
The ...
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Wednesday, November 5th, 2008
And while they were out in the streets, the Obama fans danced.
Coeur-sang saw this couple in the East Village in New York.
[coeur-sang / Flickr]
Ryan Carver likes to photograph "the calm and the isolated," which gives him "a reason to explore." This street party in San Francisco was neither calm nor ...
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Wednesday, November 5th, 2008
Grant Park in Chicago, the official site of Obama's victory rally, hosted an enormous crowd, but Obama supporters also took to the streets spontaneously all across the country.
Thirty-one-year-old Steve Goldenberg admits that he's "completely addicted to taking pictures." He lives in DC and was out last night mingling with the ...
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