Sen. Barack Obama was elected the U.S.’s 44th president and the nation’s first African-American president. Democrats control both House and Senate by wide margins, and will probably co-opt one or two Republicans in the Senate to control the 60 seats necessary to overcome the threat of a filibuster.
The rest of today’s issue discusses other election result, the anticipated forthcoming agenda, and calls for governing from the middle. I’ll pass on the predictions and deal with the agenda as it comes.
