US President-elect Barack Obama

WASHINGTON (AP):

Democrat Barack Obama wrote his name indelibly into the pages of United States history Tuesday night, engineering a social and political upheaval to become the country's first black president-elect in a runaway victory over Republican John McCain.

The 47-year-old Illinois senator, son of a white mother from Kansas and an African father from Kenya, mined a deep vein of national discontent, promising Americans hope and change throughout a nearly flawless 21-month campaign for the White House.

Prophecy,maybe?

Two elections, two front pages. Four years ago, The Gleaner highlighted Barack Obama's Senate victory on its front page as George W. Bush was re-elected to the White House.