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Well not just yet anyway, but currently Senator Ted Stevens has a slim lead for his seat in the U.S. Senate despite the fact he was convicted on multiple felony counts of corruption in October. The race for his seat came down to a 3300 point lead, which means the absentee ballots (many of which may have come before the conviction) must be counted to decide this race. If Senator Stevens maintains his lead, but then resigns his seat on the U.S. Senate, Alaska Governor Sarah Palin would temporarily take his seat until a run-off election can be held for which she would must likely take part in. The very real possibility of Governor Palin becoming the next Senator from Alaska is quite possible. Form there…who knows really. If she manages to make enough of a name for herself she may very well try and make a Presidential run in 2012 of 2016.

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Think again, even in the state California who helped elect Democratic Senator from Illinois, Barack Obama a proposition was passed to eliminate the rights of same-sex couples to marry. While its true the measure passed by a slim margin its proof that this country still leans right of center. Over $70 million was spent to support Prop 8.

California Proposition 8 Results

• YES: 52.2%
  • 5,220,694
• NO: 47.8%
  • 4,792,873

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Senator John McCain gave in my opinion one of the best concession speeches in recent history in the last hour. McCain made certain we should be reminded that we are all Americans and we must unite behind our new leader. I was not surprised by the grace of his speech but still pleasantly pleased with his words.

President Elect Barack Obama gave his acceptance speech as the clock turned to midnight on the east coast. He did a great job of remembering how he got there, and was as charismatic as he has been for 21 months now. He asked us to pull together as one nation and one people. He reminded us the government cannot fix all of our problems as a nation. As I’ve said already I wish him luck and plan to keep him to his words.

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Do you know who your president is? It seems for the first time in United States history an African American President has been elected. This formally little know candidate form Illinois, born in Hawaii will become the 44th President. This is an amazing victory for all American’s and wether or not you voted for Obama he is new leader of our country, or at least he will be in 2 short months.

I congratulate the President Elect and am now in the hopes he will lead our country through what will be one of the hardest if not the absolute hardest presidential terms. Our economy is in turmoil, we are at war and most of the world doesn’t really like us. So I say to you Barack Obama. Make your country proud. I look forward to 4 years of history in the making, and am proud to say that in my lifetime I took part in the election that brought our first minority President. I wasn’t alive when Doctor Martin Luther King Jr. gave his I have a dream speech, but I can tell my grandchildren in 30 or 40 years I was alive for this and I took part.

I would also like to say that John McCain is deserving of our respect and admiration, politics aside he has in the past served our country well in the Senate and in times of war. I expect no less of him as he makes his way back to Washington to continue that service to me and my country. I was happy to see the voter turnout we had this election and now that the campaigns are done we need to quickly move forward. And politicalprowess.com is going to keep pushing Washington to make "Change We Need." My only fear is the heavy balance of power that is now in place. So I heed warning to any who listen. We can’t just celebrate this victory we must all continue to hold politicians in Washington to the highest standard we can possibly hold them too.

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Well ok, I admit not every state. But McCain wins Alabama and South Carolina with no real return form from voting. And Obama wins Pennsylvania  with a whopping 1% returned.   So as I write this article its Obama 174 to McCain 49 in the electoral votes, but to be honest I can’t say who has what because exit polls aside the fact remains that the largest single state return at the moment is still less than 50% with many returns under 25%.

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Will it be McCain or Obama? We’ll find out tonight hopefully and not have a repeat of the 2000 election. Well either way be sure politicalprowess.com is here to make sure that Washington is paying attention to your voice. The soft launch of the site ran during the end of the month of September and seemingly went off without a hitch. Tonight however we go live. Make sure to read "The Plan" and voice your opinions. If you want to become a blogger on politicalprowess.com create a user account and send us a message using the contact form in the "About" section of the site. Its a new era one way or another and politicalprowess.com is going to be there along the way. so tell us who you think is going to win this election and share your voting experiences.

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The Bush administration asked US Lawmakers to allow the Secretary of the Treasury the power to buy up to $700 Billion in failed assets from banks and business in the US to hopefully east the current economic crisis we face today. Not since the great Depression has this country seen such its economy in such turmoil. Today in Washington is hoping to have a plan laid out by the Monday. "It would be my hope, that this could be resolved today, that we had a day for the American people and members of Congress to review the legislation on the Internet that we could bring something to the floor possibly Sunday night or Monday morning," Pelosi said in an interview earlier today.

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Tonight we finally got to take a look at the two candidates for the upcoming Presidential election in a face off. When the night started with a 700 billion dollar question I was not surprised when Senator John McCain went after Senator Barack Obama’s more than 930 million dollars in earmark spending and Obama attacked, on several occasions McCain’s but for the most part I’m happy with both their answers in part. Obama did seem to have a better time handling some of the economic questions however. At one point the moderator kept pushing the question about how the current economic issues would change their spending. Both candidates answered his question, but wouldn’t nail down a specific answer, which I think was (as I look back) the right decision. we heard Obama say he’d still push for energy reform but maybe need to pull parts back and McCain made comments about a spending freeze as a possible consideration. They both also gave other examples, but for some reason it wasn’t good enough.

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Bill and Hillary support John McCain, even if they won’t admit it. Hillary Clinton has already begun swinging for 2012, and if I were her I would too. In recent interviews Bill Clinton has praised Sarah Palin and the help she has already and will to continue to bring to the McCain camp. Having made statements like; "She handled herself very well. I get why she’s done so well.” And, “…it’s a mistake to underestimate her. She’s got good intuitive skills. They’re significant." By now you’ve all heard rumors I imagine that Joe Biden will drop out of the race after his first debate with Palin and that Senator Hillary Clinton will take his place. I doubt seriously this will happen.

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