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Barack Hussein Obama elected US President â€“ UPDATED

Barack Hussein Obama elected US President â€“ <font color=red> UPDATED </font>

05 November 2008 07:32 (UTC +04:00)

Obama won 338 electoral votes and his Republican rival Senator John McCain gained 156. As the candidates need in 270 electoral votes to win the elections, Obamaâ€™s victory became resolute. 47-year old Afro-American of Kenyan ancestry Barack Hussein Obama was elected the President of the United States of America for next four years. Official results will be announced after finishing of vote counting and confirming by the secretaries and then electoral commissions of the states. On December 15, electors of the Electoral College will cast votes for the presidential nominee they supported and then the elections results will be approved by the two chambers of the US Congress on January 6, 2009. Each state has a number of electors equal to the number of its Senators and Representatives in the United States Congress. Additionally, Washington, D.C. is given a number of electors equal to the number held by the "least populous" state. U.S. territories are not represented in the Electoral College. Electoral College votes are cast by individual states by a group of electors and each elector casts one Electoral College vote. In modern times, with electors usually committed to vote for a party candidate in advance, electors that vote against the popular vote in their state are called faithless electors, and occurrences are rare. State law regulates how states cast their Electoral College votes. In all states except Maine and Nebraska, the candidate that wins the most votes in the state receives all its Electoral College votes.
Barack Hussein Obama II was born on August 4, 1961 in Honolulu, Hawaii. His father Barack Hussein Obama I moved from Kenya to the United States and became a foreign student at Hawaii University, where he met with his future wife white Anne Stanley Dunham. They divorced when Barack Obama was two.
Barack Obama graduated of Columbia University and Harvard Law School. He taught constitutional law at the Chicago Law School. He served three terms in the Illinois Senate from 1997 to 2004. He was elected to the US Senate in November 2004 and became fifth black Senator in the countryâ€™s history. He published two books - Dreams from My Father in 1995 and The Audacity of Hope in 2006. Barack Obama married to black lawyer Michelle Robinson. They have two daughters â€“ Malia and Sasha.