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Published online 5 November 2008 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news.2008.1209
Updated online: 6 November 2008

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What Obama's win means for science

Nature takes a look at some of the races — from Congressional competitions to state-wide ballot initiatives — that will affect the nation's research.

Alexandra Witze

President Barack Obama, Democratic senator from Illinois, has defeated John McCain, the Republican senator from Arizona, in both the electoral and popular vote. The electoral balance currently stands at 364 for Obama and 162 for McCain, according to the Associated Press; 270 electoral votes are needed to win (see the scale of the victory in this cartogram).

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  • In his acceptance speech last night, President Obama cited "a planet in peril" among the many leading challenges for his presidency. From Medicine view-point, I think that another peril is mankind itself, since today's epidemics, as diabetes, CVD, Cancer, both solid and liquid, are groing up, in spite of all numerous, expensive campaigns of primary prevention against these disorders, realized untill now. As a consequence, present NHS politics, regarding primary prevention, has to be changed profoundly, aiming to attain a new, original, no expensive tool,which proved to be already efficacious in the war against above-mentioned disorders. As a matter of fact, everyone must contribute in reaching this goal, according to personal capacity. Here it is what I have been suggesting for many years: http://blogs.nature.com/news/thegreatbeyond/2008/09/post_10.html#comments

    • 05 Nov, 2008
    • Posted by: Sergio Stagnaro