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Thursday, November 20th, 2008
The wildfire rumor of the transition so far: whether Obama will pick Hillary Clinton as Secretary of State. Political junkies are speculating about Machiavellian strategizing in the Clinton and Obama camps, about the possible effect on Clinton's chances in 2012 or 2016, and, oh yeah, even about whether the choice ...
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Monday, November 17th, 2008
The campaign trend of naming babies after Obama has proven fertile. Meet Lawrence Barack Adams, who came into the world on election day. Here he is snoozing on his very own commemorative copy of the Washington Post. Photo taken by Richard from DC, presumably proud voter and proud father.
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Friday, November 14th, 2008
California's Prop 8, probably the most scrutinized ballot measure of 2008, was one of three same-sex marriage bans that passed last Tuesday. (The others were in Florida and Arizona.) Gay-rights advocates are questioning its legality and planning nation-wide protests tomorrow. Several anti-Prop 8 marches have already taken place since the ...
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Wednesday, November 12th, 2008
Madison Guy (who may be probutcool -- hard to tell) is an editor, writer, and photographer in Madison, Wisconsin. Yesterday, on Veterans Day, he took the long way to work. Via a memorial to those killed in Iraq and Afghanistan. "[T]he markers seemed to go on forever," he said, "stretching ...
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Wednesday, November 12th, 2008
Nineteen-year-old Ashley Adcox, who counts the Bible and The Bell Jar among her favorite books, voted for the first time last week. She says, of this self-portrait, "I've wanted to take this photo on my first election ever since I saw the STUNNING photographic coverage of the first election in ...
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Friday, November 7th, 2008
People around the world have been following this American election very closely. Many felt they had a lot invested in it's outcome, and it seems they were largely elated about Obama's win.
James Njuguna is a photojournalist in Nairobi who covers crime. He took this shot in Nairobi's Kibera slum on ...
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Wednesday, November 5th, 2008
Jesse Jackson was far from the only American with tears streaming last night after Obama's victory was announced.
Gueorgui Tcherednitchenko, originally from Moscow, now calls Paris home. He's a talented young photographer who explained via email that he's not a professional photojournalist -- yet! Last night/this morning in Paris, he attended ...
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Wednesday, November 5th, 2008
From Massachusetts to Oregon, Obama supporters embraced.
Joanna Rieke in Boston aspires to make art (photographs, illustrations, design) accessible to anyone. Here's the image she saw when Obama was announced as the next president. She created it at Boston's Fairmont Hotel, the election-night headquarters for the state's Democratic Party.
[joanna.rieke / Flickr]
The ...
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Wednesday, November 5th, 2008
And while they were out in the streets, the Obama fans danced.
Coeur-sang saw this couple in the East Village in New York.
[coeur-sang / Flickr]
Ryan Carver likes to photograph "the calm and the isolated," which gives him "a reason to explore." This street party in San Francisco was neither calm nor ...
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Wednesday, November 5th, 2008
Grant Park in Chicago, the official site of Obama's victory rally, hosted an enormous crowd, but Obama supporters also took to the streets spontaneously all across the country.
Thirty-one-year-old Steve Goldenberg admits that he's "completely addicted to taking pictures." He lives in DC and was out last night mingling with the ...
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Wednesday, November 5th, 2008
Immense crowds are cheering. These two photographs tell the smaller stories that put Obama on the podium tonight.
Phillyhappening saw these teenaged Muslim girls on a Philadelphia street last night. (Thanks, James Mills.)
[phillyhappening / Flickr]
David Smyth in Denver recorded this boy at a local Obama rally last week. (Hat tip ...
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Tuesday, November 4th, 2008
First you vote.
David Markland recorded what appears to be a voter and a poll worker in Culver City, California.
[David Markland / Flickr]
Then you get a certificate.
Amy from Chicago draws inspiration from a "blank piece of lined paper" and "portable coffee mugs." She says, "I cannot describe how good it felt ...
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Tuesday, November 4th, 2008
Beth Lucey describes herself as a "happily married woman with a beautiful daughter." She lives in Southbridge, Massachusetts, where she took this photo today. It's not clear whether the truck and dog are hers or a neighbor's, but the owner clearly voted for McCain. [Update 5 Nov 2008: Beth explained ...
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Tuesday, November 4th, 2008
Heidiologies took this photo of a polling place in New Jersey today. Not much of a wait time there, by the looks of it.
[heidiologies / Flickr]
In larger format, you can see that one of the signs warns against loitering. Good thing there wasn't a line out the door.
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Tuesday, November 4th, 2008
Dan 10things spotted these Obama volunteers taking a lunch break earlier today in Seattle. With their sign.
[dan10things / Flickr]
Polls in Washington state will be open for another couple of hours.
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Tuesday, November 4th, 2008
Bill, a writer from "the Deep South," seems to be wondering what we're all wondering right now.
[rebelshootsfan / Flickr]
The first states are being called.
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Tuesday, November 4th, 2008
Americans have been standing in line for hours all day. Some 100 million were expected at the polls today after twenty-nine-plus million voted early or absentee.
From sandygbandy, a pre-7 am crowd on 18th Street in DC.
[sandygbandy / Flickr]
From Valerie, a student who likes scrapbooking and genealogy, a two-and-a-half-hour line in ...
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Tuesday, November 4th, 2008
I've been saving this one for today: Lady Liberty, à la Picasso, wanting to ask a question -- while a Democratic and a Republican bird tussle over the POTUS seal. American democracy in action! The artist is TMNK ("the me nobody knows") from New York City, who believes that "each ...
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Monday, November 3rd, 2008
Jeff is a fan of his wife and video games... and Barack Obama. This appears to be a self-portrait.
[Jeff the Trojan / Flickr]
Under the photograph, Jeff writes an impassioned political manifesto.
[I am] ...a patriotic American.
…the descendent of immigrants. [...]
...a person with a moral compass, based on the values my Christian ...
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Monday, November 3rd, 2008
Tony Contini explained via Flickrmail that he took this photo at an American Legion in Sparks, Nevada, during a campaign rally. Apparently a McCain supporter and an Obama supporter both spoke to the veterans about the election. "Very interesting stuff," says Tony.
[Tony Contini / Flickr]
The focus on the veteran's ear ...
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