NOV. 4, 2008: President Barack Obama's family walks off stage as he addresses supporters during his election night party at Grant Park in Chicago. 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/Morry Gash, File)
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