“She’s gone home. And she died peacefully in her sleep with my sister at her side. And

“She’s gone home. And she died peacefully in her sleep with my sister at her side. And so there is great joy as well as tears.”

Barack Obama

Speaking about his grandmother, Madelyn Payne Dunham, who died Monday from cancer. Obama had visited the 86-year-old woman who raised him just days before she died.

“The personal honor and privilege I had of being a candidate and coming so close is something I’ll always be proud of.”

U.S. Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton

Of New York, as she voted Tuesday morning. Clinton lost the Democratic presidential nomination to Obama, U.S. senator from Illinois.Clinton and her husband, former President Bill Clinton, campaigned for Obama in the latter months of the general election.

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