By Anya Perret, The Dartmouth Staff
Two-hundred and thirty-two years after the signing of the Declaration of Independence, 145 years after President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation, 40 years after the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., eight years after conservative George W. Bush was named president and nearly two years after a relatively unknown, decidedly liberal senator from Illinois announced his bid for the presidency, Barack Obama was elected as the nation's first black president in a sweeping victory. Around 11 p.m. Tuesday night, major TV networks called the election shortly after polls closed on the West Coast, and Obama's predicted wins in California, Oregon and Washington pushed his electoral college total to 291. His opponent, Republican Senator John McCain, conceded within 15 minutes.
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By Turia Lahlou, The Dartmouth Staff
Former New Hampshire Governor Jeanne Shaheen was elected to the U.S. Senate Tuesday, defeating Republican incumbent John Sununu with 52 percent of the vote. Democrats had targeted Sununu as a vulnerable incumbent and waged an intense campaign to wrest the seat from Republican control in their drive to gain a larger majority in the Senate.
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By Marielle Battistoni, The Dartmouth Staff
Democrats swept New England's congressional races Tuesday, defeating the last remaining House Republican in the region, Representative Christopher Shays of Connecticut. In New Hampshire, Democratic incumbents Governor John Lynch and U.S. Representative Paul Hodes '72 handily won re-election, and former Governor Jeanne Shaheen defeated Republican incumbent John Sununu in a heated race for U.S. Senate.
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By Drew Joseph, The Dartmouth Staff
As Democrats and Republicans faced off in heated battles across the nation, Dartmouth's chapters of the College Republicans and College Democrats also went head to head in a he-said, she-said battle of alleged campaign foul play on Tuesday.
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By Shaun Akhtar, The Dartmouth Staff
- A professor of electrical engineering at the State University of New York at Binghamton returned to the United States on Sunday after being detained in Khazakstan for over a month on charges of currency smuggling, the Chronicle of Higher Education reported Tuesday. More »
- The Center for Cross-Cultural Study, a Massachusetts-based study-abroad program provider, paid $15,000 to the U.S. More »
- Biofuel technology company Mascoma, founded by two Thayer School of Engineering professors, has announced a new partnership with timber, mining and project management company JM Longyear, according to Checkbiotech.org. More »
