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Barack Obama Elected President

Barack Obama, shattered more than 200 years of history Tuesday night by winning election as the first African-American president of the United States. Mr Obama received 349 electoral vote vs John McCains 159. A landslide if you ask, and in my mind, quite surprising.

And my thoughts about this, well – Mr. Obama can not possibly be as good as people are hoping for him. He’s a human being, he’ll foul up and make mistakes. He won’t do everything he wants to do, and people will be disappointed. That’s how things are. He’s going to be strapped financially, and militarily. He’s going to have to fight off the endless nattering attacks of the right wing in the US. He’s going to have to learn on the job. But none of this means we should still not hope for the best, and realize that he’s probably the best chance there is right now to get things done in the US. People need to get behind him after a long period of self-destruction at the hands of the Republicans. I hope he can make some headway and start pointing the USA in the right direction. He’s not the messiah, but he’s an intelligent and optimistic person who wants to do right. That’s what the world need right now, more than anything else, but it’s also a heavy burden to have to bear. He need all the luck and intelligence he could get!

A little detail about tomorrows presidental election

Barack Obama and John McCain uncorked massive get-out-the-vote operations in more than a dozen battleground states, millions of telephone calls, mailings and door-knockings in a frenzied, fitting climax to a record-shattering $1 billion campaign. Together, they’ll spend about $8 per presidential vote. I wonder how much money the Norwegian parties will spend of their campaigns next year…

With just a day to go, most national polls show Obama ahead of McCain. State surveys suggest the Democrat’s path to the requisite 270 electoral votes—and perhaps far beyond—is much easier to navigate than McCain’s.

Polls show the six closest states are Florida, Indiana, Missouri, North Carolina, Nevada and Ohio. All were won by Bush and made competitive by Obama’s record-shattering fundraising. The campaigns also are running aggressive ground games elsewhere, including Iowa, New Mexico, Pennsylvania, New Hampshire, Colorado and Virginia.

The massacre at Viginia Tech

Again, an epic killing spree has been committed again, this time in Blacksburg Virginia. A man who methodically shot and killed at least 30 people on the campus of Virginia Tech, and the whole world reel in the wake of the deadliest shooting in U.S. history.
So far, there are so many questions but very few answers. I hope that this terror act, ’cause that what it is, at least does something with the American gun laws. One of the candidates trying to get the nomination for republican party does the opposite, John McCain says: “I do believe in the constitutional right that everyone has, in the Second Amendment to the Constitution, to carry a weapon”. I cannot understand how a person could support this, when so many deaths has occurred in the last 10 or-so years, shooting people at random. Ban guns now!