Barack Obama wasn't the only winner in November's presidential election. Thomas Gensemer, whose company Blue State Digital managed Obama's slick online campaign, built his website my.barackobama.com, recruited 13.5 million supporters and raised $500m for the Obama campaign, is also doing very nicely...

What's happening today: With 48 hours left before he becomes president, Barack Obama will this morning lay a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at Arlington National Ceremony. Then the party begins, officially, with a free open air concert on the Mall, at which he'll also appear, alongside a ...

Barack Obama had his first serious setback since winning the presidency when his proposed secretary of commerce, Bill Richardson, was yesterday forced to quit the cabinet because of a federal investigation into a business deal. Richardson, governor of New Mexico and the most high-profile Latino poli...

"I'm really coming into this as somebody who isn't, you know, part of the system, who obviously, you know, stands for the values of, you know, the Democratic Party," "I know how important it is to, you know, to be my own person. And, you know, and that would be obviously true with my relationship wi...

Politics - more like looning around having a jolly good time!...

I think it’s worth for me to keep this copy of Obama’s acceptance speech here. The speech is so inspired and giving me the believe not to be afraid of CHANGE. We need to change for the better and we have to believe that we can do it. Here’s the prepared transcript of his acceptance spe...

Remember this cuz it’s important: You don’t really change people’s minds with facts. You change people’s minds by changing the way they view themselves. It’s common knowledge that l’m a pretty liberal guy. Back in 2004 I was completely confused by George W. Bush s...

Constanze Stelzenmüller: Europe will welcome Barack Obama as the saviour of democratic virtues, values which too many of our leaders have ignored...

Three reporters from Arizona, on the condition of anonymity, related another incident involving McCain's intemperateness. In his 1992 Senate bid, McCain was joined on the campaign trail by his wife, Cindy, as well as campaign aide Doug Cole and consultant Wes Gullett. At one point, Cindy playfully t...

On the streets of the neighbourhood dubbed the capital of black America, you'd be hard pressed to know history was made...