BASSETERRE, St. Kitts – The election of Illinois Senator, the Hon. Barack Obama, as President of the United States of America, “is a power of example.”
“In theory, this was supposed to have been an almost statistical impossibility,” St. Kitts and Nevis Prime Minister Hon. Dr. Denzil L. Douglas said Wednesday in a message of congratulations to Obama on behalf of the Government and People of the Federation of St. Kitts and Nevis.
“Yet, through vision, strength of character, and resolute adherence to principle, you have won not only this most esteemed position by a landslide, but indeed the respect, support, and admiration of peoples and nations as far flung as disparate as one can imagine,” said Prime Minister Douglas to President-Elect Obama, who won Tuesday’s United States Presidential Election.
Obama is the first African-American destined to sit in the Oval Office. He is also the first Democrat to receive more than 50 percent of the popular vote since Jimmy Carter in 1976. He is the first senator elected to the White House since John F. Kennedy in 1960.
He received 52.3 percent for the popular vote to and 46.4 percent for McCain. He received 349 of the Electoral College to McCain’s 147. (CUOPM)
