WASHINGTON (AP) -- Barack Obama swept to victory Tuesday night in an electoral college landslide.

Sen. Barack Obama Answers Your Questions VIDEO

Authorities at the University of Kentucky are trying to find out who hung an effigy of Sen. Barack Obama on campus.

Federal agents have broken up a plot to assassinate Barack Obama and shoot or decapitate 102 black people in a Tennessee. VIDEO

Barack Obama has purchased a half-hour of airtime on CBS

This Friday 9News held an exclusive interview with Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama. VIDEO

Sen. Barack Obama dropped in on his own party at the Democratic convention a day early to praise his wife, his former rival, and former President Bill Clinton for going to bat for him. VIDEO

The former president said Barack Obama had "hit one out of the ballpark" with his choice of Sen. Joseph Biden as a runningmate.

Democratic vice presidential candidate Sen. Joe Biden says country needs the wise leadership of Barack Obama.

He says McCain's changed positions on the Republicans' tax cuts, climate change bills and immigration leave him shaken.

Delaware Sen. Joe Biden will be Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama’s running mate.

Barack Obama celebrated in Iowa, where his win there helped reshape the race.

Tells supporters after Ky. primary victory she's the best choice to beat John McCain.

Voters came out Tuesday and showed Clinton that they want to her to run against Sen. John McCain in November.

Clinton gave her victory speech in Louisville. VIDEO

Voters will show Clinton and Obama who they want to run against McCain in November.

Democrat John Edwards has given his long-awaited endorsement to Barack Obama.

Sen. Barack Obama called for party unity during a campaign rally Monday in Louisville.

Hillary Clinton holds a commanding lead over Barack Obama in the Kentucky Democratic presidential primary.

Businessman Bruce Lunsford appears poised to win Kentucky's Democratic Primary election for U.S. Senate.

Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton is courting Kentucky's uncommitted superdelegates.

Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton, 59, is in her second term representing New York state. She was first elected to the U.S. Senate in 2000. She is the wife of former President Bill Clinton and the first First Lady elected to public office.

John Edwards, 53, was elected to the U.S. Senate from North Carolina in 1998. He served for one term. After an unsuccessful bid for Vice President and President in 2004, he worked as the director of a new Center on Poverty, Work, and Opportunity at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Mike Gravel, 76, represented Alaska in the U.S. Senate from 1969 to 1980. He played a key role in the release the Pentagon Papers, the secret government documents pertaining to the Vietnam War. In 1971, he successfully blocked an attempt by the Nixon Administration to renew the military draft.

Senator Barack Obama, 45, is the third African American since Reconstruction to be elected to the U.S. Senate. After serving in the Illinois state Senate from 1997 to 2004, he was elected to the U.S. Senate in 2004. He earned his law degree from Harvard in 1991, where he became the first African-American president of the Harvard Law Review. He delivered the keynote address at the 2004 Democratic National Convention.