OBAMA PREVAILS

By John Whitesides, WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Tuesday, 4 of November of 2008. -       |Democratic senator Barack Obama won Tuesday a debilitating battle of two years to arrive at the White House, overcoming to the republican John McCain to become the first black president in the history of the United States.

            Obama, with 47 years and in their first period like legislator by Illinois, will be invested like the American president number 44 the 20 of January of the 2009.

            The democratic leader will have to face several challenges immediately, including palliating the economic crisis, finalizing the war in Iraq and to fulfill his commitment to reform the health system.

            McCain saw evaporate its hopes to gain the victory when it lost the crucial states of Ohio, that Bush conquered by one slight difference in its re-election of the 2004, and Virginia, that had not voted by a democrat from 1964.

            McCain said to its followers in Phoenix that called to Obama to congratulate it by its victory and praised to those who accompanied it in the campaign.

            “We have arrived at the end of one long day ", said McCain to its followers. “I ask to Him all the Americans who endorsed to me that they are united to me for not only congratulating it (to Obama) but to show our next president our good will to him ".

            Obama took to the democrats to an overwhelming electoral victory that extended the majorities of the party in both cameras of the Congress and implies a fort repudio to the eight years of leadership of republican president George W. Bush.

            President George W. Bush also communicated with Obama to congratulate it by its victory in the elections, said the White House, adding that the agent chief executive invited it to visit it next to his family soon.

            “You are near arriving at one from the best days of your life. Congratulations and disfrútelo ", said Bush to Obama according to the presidential spokeswoman Dana Perino.

            The triumph of Obama, son of an originating black father of Kenya and of a white mother of Kansas, marks a landmark in the history of the United States. The victory occurs 45 years after the apogee of the movement by the civil rights led by Martin Luther King.

            The announcement of the American television networks of the victory of Obama untied the celebrations of its followers throughout the country, from Times Square in New York to the Church Baptist of Ebenezer in Atlanta, the temple to which went King.

            Tens of thousands of followers of Obama met in Grant Park de Chicago of the elections at night. There they celebrated the announcement of each democratic victory in the states nails. A speech of Obama was expected later during the night.

            In a campaign dominated of principle to aim by a series of the bad news on the economy, the leadership and the proposals of Obama on how to handle the crisis they inclined the race in his favor.

            The soundings to ballot box mouth showed that six of each 10 voters think that the economy was the most important subject in the voting.

            McCain, a senator by Arizona of 72 years and ex- prisoner military of Vietnam, hoped to become the president of greater age in assuming a first mandate in the White House and looked for that her companion of formula, Sarah Palin, was the first woman who reaches the vice-presidency of the country. (Published in Spanish by Ricardo Figueroa)

 

MCCAIN ACCEPTS HIS DEFEAT

PHOENIX (Reuters) - Tuesday, 4 of November of 2008. -       | The republican John McCain said Tuesday that congratulated to the democrat Barack Obama by their victory in the presidential elections in the United States, to the time that affirmed that “the American town has spoken”.

            McCain made a speech before its followers in a hotel of Phoenix after telephoning to Obama to grant the victory to him.

            The senator by Arizona, of 72 years, called to the Americans to be united behind Obama, saying that he glided to help the future president to face the many challenges that the country has.

 

            “In spite of our differences, we are American compatriots and, please, créanme when I say to them that there is no relation that means more for my than that ", McCain said.

            “He is natural to feel something of frustration tonight, but tomorrow we will move beyond her ", added, whom it described to its candidate to the vice-presidency, Sarah Palin, like a new vital voice within the Republican Party. (By Steve Holland)

 

DEMOCRATS MAJORITY IN CONGRESS OF THE U.S.A.

By Thomas Ferraro, WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Tuesday, 4 of November of 2008. -       |The democrats extended their majority in the Senate of the United States, but according to own those in favor to not sufficient like drawing for the procedural obstacles it that their republican rivals raise and who can frustar the sanction of laws.

            Nevertheless, the democrats were trusted that if approaches a majority of 60 in a camera of 100 members, some moderate republicans could unite to it them to approve important laws in the new Congress that will be conformed as of January.

            “They are going to have to be more cooperative. They are going to have to realize that the old method to block all initiative does not work more for them ", said a democratic close friend.

            “Tonight they underwent a beating and ( the republican leader of the Senate Mitch) McConnell as soon as it gained a new mandate ", added the close friend.

            Straddling a wave anti republican generated to a great extent by the great unpopularity of president George W. Bush, the democrats extended their majorities in the Senate and the House of Representatives .

            When obtaining four benches and with several senadurías still more to be decided, the democrats increased their majority to 55 of the 100 seats of the Senate, and speculate that they will obtain some at least more.

            “There is no way to arrive at the 60. Perhaps but I think that we will gain at least six, seven ", said an adviser after reviewing the state of the elections for the Senate.

            Altogether 35 benches of the Senate were put into play in the election, 23 of them into the hands of the republicans and the rest in being able of the democrats. Many of the votings in which a republican gambles the re-election are still uncertain.

            The 435 positions of the House of Representatives will be chosen in this voting. The democrats control the House of Representatives by 235-199, with a vacancy. MSNBC projected that the democrats would increase their majority to 261-174.

            Two ex- democratic governors, Jeanne Shaheen de Nueva Hampshire and Mark Warner of Virginia respectively gained benches that corresponded to republicans, the senators John Sununu and John Warner.

            In addition, the republican senator Elizabeth Dole de Carolina of the North, handcuffs of the republican presidential candidate of 1996, Bob Dole, was defeated by the democrat Kay Hagan.

            In as much, the democratic representative Tom Udall gained the bench that again left senator Pete Domenici Mexico available, who retired.

            Next to McConnell, senators Saxby Chambliss de Georgia and Susan Collins de Maine avoided a possible defeat in bitter votings, according to means projections.

            With the democratic candidate Barack Obama assuring its arrival to the White House, the new Congress that will meet in January would have to be able to fulfill one long list of campaign promises.

            Among them they include the retirement of the soldiers of the United States of Iraq, the elimination of tributary cuts for the rich ones, and the adoption of measures to end the worse economic crisis than asola to the country from the Great Depression.

            Without concerning how many benches gain the democrats, the federal deficit record and the poor man been of the economy will limit what they can do.

            The democrats will possibly have to limit or to pospone any program that includes an important cost, like their proposal to extend the health cover, to improve the education and to advance in the development of technologies of renewable power plants.

            The democrats gained the majority in the Senate two years ago, but the republicans have blocked routinely laws on subjects like the retirement of troops of Iraq and stimuli to the economy, until subjects of health and energy.

            “The republicans are going to have strategically to think about when they must appeal to the filibusteo (obstruction of laws) “in the new Congress, Andrew Taylor, an academic politician of the University of Carolina of the North said.

            Between the senators who obtained a easy re-election is the democrat Joe Biden de Delaware. But before the triumph of Obama it will have to yield its bench because one will become the new vice-president. (Additional Report of Richard Cowan; published by Hernán Garci'a)