A historic win for the first elected African-American president of the United States of America. Obama won a landslide victory thanks to the largest number of voters of any election in American history — as many as 130 million.
In his victory speech to more than 200,000 people in Grant Park, Chicago, he declared, “It’s been a long time coming, but tonight, because of what we did on this day, in this election, at this defining moment, change has come to America.”
Crowds throughout the nation agreed with him and celebrated from coast to coast.
He also paid a touching tribute to Ann Nixon Cooper, a 106-year-old female voter from Atlanta, and recalled the progress the nation has made in the last century.
“America, we have come so far. We have seen so much. But there is so much more to do,” he said. “So tonight, let us ask ourselves — if our children should live to see the next century, if my daughters should be so lucky to live as long as Ann Nixon Cooper, what change will they see? What progress will we have made?
“This is our chance to answer that call. This is our moment. “
Indeed, it is.
