NY Post proclaims Obama the winner!

I'm surprised at the Post's enthusiasm. Never a paper to wait until the facts are in, they called Obama the winner as soon as he got Ohio. But for once, I'm hoping the Post's shoddy journalism is right.

Barack Obama Wins the Presidency

Barack Obama scored a barrier-breaking victory tonight to become the first black president of the United States - capping a 22-month quest that tapped into a national hunger for "hope" and "change."

At age 47 and still serving his first Senate term, the Democrat cleared a historic hurdle that seemed insurmountable just a few years ago - and was bolstered by Democrats padding their majority in Congress.

Obama held blue-tilting Pennsylvania and its 21 electoral votes by large margins, despite a massive effort by GOP Sen. John McCain to try to score a win there to shore up his faltering numbers elsewhere.

But for Obama, who merely needed to hold every state John Kerry won in 2004 and pick up one George W. Bush state in order to clinch victory, things started to break at around 9:30 p.m., when several media outlets called Ohio for the Democrat.

No Republican has won the White House without capturing battleground Ohio, which has 20 electoral votes.