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President Elect Barack Obama addressed a sea of people in Grant Park, Chicago last night, with a historic speech to mark a history-making event. The US has, after more than 200 years, finally elected a person of color to the nation’s highest office. How significant is his victory? How did he win? And what lies in America’s future under an Obama Presidency?

GUEST: Norman Solomon, nationally syndicated columnist on media and politics, founder and executive director of the Institute for Public Accuracy, a delegate for Barack Obama