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President-elect Barack Obama’s use of the Internet and his focus on the youth vote have transformed the way campaigns are run, according to four Institute of Politics fellows who spoke at the Forum on Monday night. The event, moderated by Institute of Politics Director Bill P. Purcell, focused on what made Obama’s campaign victorious and the future Obama administration. “The youth vote went three to one for Obama, higher than ever before,” said Jennifer Donahue, a political reporter who directs the New Hampshire Institute of Politics...
...scrubs who got on and off at Charles MGH. But the black passengers seemed changed, somehow. Maybe it was the young black man wearing a shirt of the type that usually has a hip-hop artist plastered across its front, only Tupac’s face was replaced by Barack Obama’s. Or maybe it was the black woman who sat in the seat across from me, beaming when our eyes met. Or maybe it was the word “Obama” that was shouted and whispered and passed from hand to hand down the subway...
...bound by the knowledge that there were things we couldn’t do and places we couldn’t go, all because of the color of our skin. It was a bit like being stuck together in a crowded room with no doors. I cannot say that Barack Obama has let us out of that room, but he has at least opened a skylight and given us all something more in common than centuries of accumulated hatred...
...preparations for the inauguration of President-elect Barack Obama begin, the computer-savvy at Harvard are taking notice of the Harvard Law School graduate who supports network neutrality. Officials at the University’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society and the Harvard Computer Society said that the promise of network neutrality, which could materialize under an Obama administration, would help preserve the Internet’s democratic qualities. “One could imagine if the Internet were much less neutral there would be much less innovation and it would be easier for corporations to stifle free expression...
...results on Nov. 4 were negative for advocates of gay marriage outside California as well: citizens in Florida and Arizona also voted to make gay marriage unconstitutional. The vote was overwhelming in Florida, where voters favored Barack Obama in the presidential race but still decided 63% to 37% to make marriage available to heterosexual couples only. And in John McCain's home state of Arizona, voters reversed course just two years after defeating a similar, if more sweeping, ban on gay marriage...