---
title: Obama Wins Presidential Election
date: 2008-11-05 12:58:18
permalink: https://lesterchan.net/blog/2008/11/05/obama-wins-presidential-election/
author: Lester Chan
excerpt: "Barack Obama has won the US presidential election with 364 electoral votes to John McCain's 163, plus Democratic majorities in the Senate and House. Hopefully the economy recovers. Fellow Singaporeans, we need change here too in 2011."
categories:
  - Current Affairs
tags:
  - Obama
  - president
  - US
---

## President

Barack Obama: <span class="text-green">364</span>  
John McCain: <span class="text-red">163</span>## Senate

Democrats: <span class="text-green">57</span>  
Republicans: <span class="text-red">40</span>## House

Democrats: <span class="text-green">254</span>  
Republicans: <span class="text-red">173</span>Now that Obama wins, hopefully US economy will recover and most importantly US dollar will go up!

Fellow Singaporeans, we need to make a change to Singapore in 2011. I had enough of our current government.