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Emanuel accepts job as White House chief - Obama adds symbolic NC victory to White House win - Democratic challenger wins Senate race in Oregon.



Emanuel accepts job as White House chief

Democratic officials say Barack Obama's fellow Chicagoan Rahm Emanuel has agreed to be White House chief of staff.

Obama adds symbolic NC victory to White House win

President-elect Obama has won North Carolina, a symbolic triumph in a state that hadn't voted for a Democrat in more than a generation.

Democratic challenger wins Senate race in Oregon

The Democratic challenger in Oregon's Senate race, Jeff Merkley, has defeated Republican Sen. Gordon Smith.

Lincoln re-election speech to be auctioned in NYC

Christie's is auctioning a handwritten copy of the 1864 speech Abraham Lincoln delivered at the White House after being re-elected in the midst of an unpopular Civil War that both he and his opponents believed might cost him his job.

This time, election system worked. But why?

After all that fuss, the system worked. There was no meltdown, no flurry of lawsuits, no statewide demands for a presidential recount.

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