Obama’s win was captured in many different moments across America and the world. Here are just a few snapshots:
MOVING PICTURES:
The big kahuna. Did you miss Obama’s victory speech? Only catch the soundbites on the news? Watch it in full here.
Sarah Palin admits her part in John McCain’s downfall — via Gawker
More videos:
- Obama win causes obsessive supporters to realise how empty their lives are. — The Onion says it best.
- Election Day in 100 seconds — from Talking Points Memo
- Obama wins: Stephen Colbert cries. — from Indecision 2008
- Obama wins: Oprah screams for joy. — Huffington Post
- Obama wins: Ralph Nader asks whether Obama will be Uncle Sam or “Uncle Tom”. There’s always one. Via Hot Air.
STILLS:
Official photo collections:
- Boston Globe: The best pics of Barack Obama from the past few months. Stirring stuff.
- Time: Obama’s victory celebration in Chicago
- Chicago Tribune: Grant Park Obama Rally
- International Herald Tribune: Watching from abroad (includes US soldiers in Iraq casting their ballots)
- The Guardian: US election night victory celebrations around the globe
Personal collections:
Informal photos are popping up like mushrooms on Flickr. Like this set from jdebner, snapping from Pittsburgh. It looks like scenes from the end of a war (well that or a Jerome Robbins musical).
Crowd scenes from New York — and, more specifically, Harlem — are collated by Gothamist.
Kay Steiger snapped one guy in Washington whose car got the Obama treatment.
Illustrator Patrick Moberg’s picture, meanwhile, is telling a thousand words — as it laps the globe today.
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