Published December 07, 2009, 12:00 AM
DECADE'S END: Rally signs for candidate Obama (2008)
FEB. 18, 2008: People hold signs as then Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., speaks at a rally in Youngstown, Ohio. This first decade of the 21st century has taken us from hanging chad to fist bumps and beyond. From peace and prosperity to war and economic turmoil. In two improbable elections that serve as bookends to the decade, Americans elected, barely, a pedigreed president following in his father's footsteps and then, surprisingly easily, a trailblazer who symbolically closed the nation's long festering wounds over race relations. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, File)
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