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It finally happened:
Congress has officially declared Barack Obama the next President of the United States after tallying electoral college votes in a centuries old tradition.
The House and Senate met in joint session to hear their colleagues read off the electoral votes from the 50 states and the District of Columbia. The outcome, never in doubt, was 365 votes for Obama and Vice President-elect Joe Biden, and 173 votes for John McCain and his running mate, Sarah Palin.
It’s not always this easy. In 2001, Vice President Al Gore, acting in his constitutional capacity as president of the Senate, supervised the Electoral College count that declared, George W. Bush president.
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