11/5 Roundup: President Barack Hussein Obama
- Barack Obama completed an historic run for the presidency last night with a decisive win. Now the commentary swirls: How did he do it? What's next? What about the economy? Whither Sarah Palin? How does Joe Biden get his teeth so white? For now, a roundup of political analysis answering that first question: How did Barack Obama win the election?
How Did He Do It?
- Joe Klein points to Obama's stellar ground campaign.
- Melissa Dahl of MSNBC says the youth vote played a decisive role.
- The Economist writes that it was, well, the economy
- Howard Fineman had a chat with David Plouffe, and heard about the "Seven Steps to Success" of the campaign team.
- An NY Times editorial says Obama succeeded by seeing what was wrong with the country: The government's failure to protect its people.
- Politico looks at the exit polls and talks about racial breakdown: Notably, Obama performed well with white men.
- Tom Edsall of the Huffington Post also looks at exit polls, and finds Obama did very well with women, and reasonably well with men.
- Political Punch explains the Ohio victory: Great organization, economic message, good performance among working class whites.
- PP also looks at the Latinos, who went for Obama by a greater than 2:1 margin.
- John Dickerson writes that, ultimately, it was about change.
- Last, the Pointer Sisters suggest that perhaps it was just that darn good slogan:
- Sam duPont's blog
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