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On 4 November 2008, the American people and the world had an important appointment to witness the election of the forty-fourth president and vice-president of the United States of America. On that day, the fifty-sixth presidential elections took place as is the case every four years since the establishment of the USA. This time, 15 candidates contended in the race: 13 partisan and 2 independent, but there was a fierce competition between the main Republican and Democratic parties. It was the Democratic Senator Barack Obama and Senator Joe Baiden who won the elections over the Republican Senator John McCain and the Governor of Alaska Sarah Palin. Thus, Obama is the president-elect until he is formally declared president of the United States on 20 January 2009. Unprecedented events occurred in the history of America, most important of which is the election of a black American of mixed race and faith to be nominated by a major party and take over the presidency. Obama is also the youngest US president whereas McCain would have been the oldest, and Palin the first women vice-president had they won. Furthermore, Joe Baiden is the first Catholic of Irish origins to become vice-president, except for Kennedy, no Catholic has ever found his way to the White House. Moreover, upon the appointment of Ram Emanuel, an Israeli Jew, chief of staff in the White House, it becomes clear that the top three people in the executive authority - the most powerful among the three authorities -come from relatively newly immigrated families as well as religious and racial minorities. To add the high possibilities of the Democratic Hilary Clinton and the Republican Palin, America has made a dramatic jump by allowing the children of the minority to lead America two decades before it becomes without any racial or religious majority, but a huge mix of ethnicities, faiths and sects.
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