Historical+Elections

Speaker of the House...Is a Woman!
====In early November 2006, elections for the new Speaker of the House were held. Representing the Democratic party, Nancy Pelosi had been a San Francisco congresswoman for 20 years, but was never too well known. Her name became known nationwide however, when she was elected as the first woman Speaker of the House. She also brought back the Democrats after their loss in 2004. It was her keen organization and dedication to liberal ideals that gave Pelosi the extra leg up to come up first “among the boys”.====

Presidential Election 2008
====As the election for the next president of the United States was slowly approaching, the candidates had already made history. Representing the Democratic party was John McCain, who ran his platform heavily focused on making the cost of living less. In terms of the war in Iraq, he was against Bush’s policy and aimed to make peace with the entire Middle Eastern region because of its benefits. His opposer, Republican Barack Obama, ran under the ideals of change for the country. He wanted to build new education and health care plans if elected. Come election night. the race was “too close to call” for quite some time in critical states. In the end, however, history was made by Obama, who not only put Republicans back in the White House, but became our nations first colored president. It was his highly invested campaign and attention to “every man” that put Obama a step ahead of McCain in the race for presidency.==== [|Election Coverage]