11.05.2008 12:23 am

Wednesday editorial: America voted

Voters cast their ballots Tuesday morning at Twillman Elementary School in Spanish Lake. John L. White | Post-Dispatch

On Tuesday, for the 55th time in the nation’s history, the United States held a presidential election. America voted.

It was 55,395 days since the…

11.04.2008 10:15 pm

Barack Obama, president-elect of the United States of America

President-Elect Barack Obama

People are crying in Harlem, screaming in Chicago and celebrating all over the United States as CNN calls the election for Barack Obama.

U.S. Sen. Barack Obama of Illinois now is the first African-American elected president of the United…