the last day, perhaps...

of a world with a White US President... and that's really really rewriting history for a number of reasons, about which a little later.
right now, my mind goes back to my student days in college, when as part of our major curriculum, we had to study the US constitution and one of the most difficult to engage topics at that stage was the Presidential elections... how the popular votes and the electoral college votes work to get someone elected or knocked out... remember the controversy over George Bush's second term in 2004?
anyhow, today the whole world is gazing at the US... it will be good to have a refreshing change... Obama, for one, has brought about a major change in the way the whole campaign has been conducted. many watchers have compared him to John Kennedy and the whiff of fresh air that the latter had brought about, in his brief term before his assassination.
Obama, unlike Kennedy, has fought it every inch, first against a formidable rival within his own party and now more against Bush rather than McCain since the Americans see a Republican re-election as nothing but continuation of the many international (Iraq, the foremost) and national (economy in shambles, which stole the show in the last few weeks) blunders that Bush has done on over the past eight years...
while he has these blunders on his favour, he has his colour against him... and that is not an easy thing to overcome, going by the fact that there are no past preceedents... the only reference that colour has had in the American context is negative, though with the coverage of the campaign, the Presidential debates and the polls which consistently has suggested Obama leading by no matter how slim a margin, it is by now clear that he has relaid the length that colour can set for him, transgressed the erstwhile boundary and the marginalisation on the basis of colour... this itself is a big big leap... and if American media reports are to be taken word for word, it has clearly branded Obama as someone who has given the nation a new way of looking at life... not only has he based his campaign on the theme of change, he also has a definite agenda when he talks about the US economy, though it will mean less outsourcing to cheaper labour hubs like India or protectionist trade policies...
we just need to see whether Americans are sane enough to buy that worldview...