Barack Hussein Obama II (born August 4, 1961) is the President-elect of the United States and the junior United States Senator from Illinois.
Obama is the first African American to be elected President of the United States.
Obama's election sparked spontaneous street celebrations in the United States and abroad.
Many editorialized that the image of the United States abroad that was strained during the administration of George Bush would improve.
Fears that gun laws would become more restrictive during an Obama administration led to an unprecedented rise in firearms sales across the United States.
In his victory speech, delivered before a crowd of hundreds of thousands of his supporters in Grant Park in Chicago, Obama proclaimed that "change has come to America."
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