Decades End Politics

AP News - 790 days ago
Decades End Politics
FILE - This Feb. 9, 2009 file photo shows President Barack Obama bumping fists with an audience member as he arrives for a town hall style meeting to discuss his economic stimulus package at Concord Community High School in Elkhart, Ind. 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/Charles Dharapak, File)