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POL_Curry_History.sPubDate = "11/5/2008 8:00:18 PM GMT";
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POL_Curry_History.appHeader = "Making history";
POL_Curry_History.appDeck = "With his victory on Tuesday, Sen. Barack Obama became ...";
POL_Curry_History.appFooter = "Source: Msnbc.com's Tom Curry";
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POL_Curry_History[i-1].body = "The first Democratic presidential candidate since Jimmy Carter in 1976 to win more than 50 percent of the nationwide popular vote.";

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POL_Curry_History[i-1].body = "The first Democratic candidate ever to win the presidency without carrying Arkansas.";

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POL_Curry_History[i-1].body = "The first Democrat since 1916 to win the presidency without carrying West Virginia.";

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POL_Curry_History[i-1].body = "The first Democrat since John Kennedy in 1960 to win the presidency without carrying Tennessee and Kentucky.";

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POL_Curry_History[i-1].body = "The first Democrat since Lyndon Johnson in 1964 to win Virginia or Indiana.";

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POL_Curry_History[i-1].body = "The first Democratic president-elect since Bill Clinton to have an incoming Senate with at least 56 Democratic senators.";

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POL_Curry_History[i-1].body = "The only man other than Warren Harding in 1920 to be elected president while in his first term in the Senate.";

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