Landslide victory for "Joe the plumber" - Barack Obama wins the US Presidential Elections
Bild: Obama by Kris KrosOn 4 November 2008 Barack Obama has won the 2008 U.S. presidential election, defeating John McCain. Obama won 338 and McCain 161 of the electoral votes. (Source NY Times, 5 November 2008) In the weiter>>>

Interesting Articles on the US elections

• "Doing the Tokyo Tryst", by Bruce Stokes, National Journal, January 10, 2009, on Japan's take on future U.S.-Japan relations under the Obama administration.
• "Strengthening Our Japanese Alliance", by Dan Blumenthal, The Daily Standard January 8, 2009 on Obama´s plan to sell the F-22 fifth generation fighter aircraft to Japan.
• "Regulating Our Way to Freedom?", by Robert Hahn, The American, 8 January, 2009 on the temptation of a new US-Congress to add a new layer of regulation to the Internet.
• "What Europe wants from Obama", by Tomas Valasek, CER Publications, November 2008 identifying challenges for the new US-president and his meaning for the transatlantic relationship.
• "Responding to the changing Global Challenge", by Richard Samans (Senior Fellow at American Progress and Managing Director of the World Economic Forum) and Ira Shapiro (former Clinton administration aide)
• Einen übersichtlichen Zeitplan für die kommenden Wochen zwischen der Präsidentschaftswahl und der Amtseinführung finden Sie hier:
  "Von der Wahl bis zur Amtseinführung", Süddeutsche.de, 5.November 2008
• Was ist von einem Präsidenten Barack Obama zu erwarten? Eine Übersicht seiner Regierungspläne finden Sie hier.
• "Who will be Obama’s top diplomat?", by Amna Nawaz and Libby Leist, Other-News.info, 12 November 2008
• "This Election Has Not 'Realigned' the Country", Jennifer Marsico, Wall Street Journal, 12 November 2008 
• US-Demokraten verpassen historische Senatsmehrheit, flo/Reuters/dpa, Spiegel-Online, 03.12.2008

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