As the excitement of November 4 wears off and reality sets in, Voices without Votes will continue to follow reactions from around the globe. Today, however, Lebanese bloggers are still buzzing over the election of new President-Elect Barack Obama. While some are excited to see Obama take office, others are...

In a sad turn of events, presidential hopeful Barack Obama's grandmother, Madelyn Dunham, passed away from cancer less than 24 hours before her grandson could be elected president. Obama visited his grandmother, whose nickname was "Toot," last week, taking a break from his schedule of heavy campaigning.

Before...

On the eve of the elections, the world is atwitter -- and Morocco is no exception. Bloggers based in Morocco -- both Moroccan natives and foreign residents -- are musing over potential election outcomes. While Morocco is also no exception to the world's preference for Obama, bloggers have a lot...

A quick glance at Voices without Votes or the global blogosphere and it's clear who the world wants for president: Barack Obama. It seems that, despite the relative closeness of the race in the United States, the rest of the world likes his charisma, his foreign policy, his take on...

Today is Halloween in the US... and as trick or treaters piece together the last of their costumes, the elections may be weighing heavy on their minds. For some, the elections and Halloween go hand in hand. Obama masks, do-it-yourself Sarah Palin, even a politically incorrect Hillary...

Muslim, Black, Unpatriotic, Un-American, Sexist: Just a few of the words used as insults hurled at Barack Obama since the inception of his presidential campaign. Despite Barack Obama's commitment to American politics, distrust of him runs deep in many parts of the US.

As if the previous attempts to...

During the run up to the vice presidential debate, there was much media and blogosphere speculation as how Governor Sarah Palin might handle the debate, whether or not Senator Joe Biden would be able to control himself, and of course, who would win. Voices without Votes covered much...

Since Barack Obama selected Senator Joe Biden as his running mate just prior to the Democratic National Convention in August, little attention has been paid to the Senator from Delaware. With all of the media's attention focused on Obama himself (as well as Sarah Palin of course), little...

Less than an hour after Sarah Palin's nomination was announced, the comparisons to Tina Fey started. The glasses, the hair, the highlights - Sarah Palin is indeed...

When Howard Dean ran for president in 2004, supporters touted his blog as evidence of his progressive attitude. He was the first presidential candidate to start a blog, which at the time felt like a giant leap forward into technology for a candidate; four years later, and we're criticizing John...

Since Sarah Palin was announced as John McCain's running mate, I've had a pit in my stomach. McCain's gimmicky choice was an obvious attempt to outdo what the Democrats had accomplished in the primaries, that is, by setting historical precedent by narrowing the candidates down to a woman and a...

Each presidential race has its controversies. While the past two were marred by questions of voting accessibility and vote counting, however, this race is plagued with gossip about...

Voices without Votes has been covering the reactions of Twitter users, or the Twittersphere, to the U.S. 2008 elections. Tonight, we follow reactions from around the globe as Barack Obama makes his acceptance speech of the Democratic nomination.

As the speech begins, African Twitter users are having fun translating...

As the presidential candidates come together to discuss faith and issues of morality -- at Saddleback last week and at the Democratic National Convention this week, there's a large contingent feeling excluded. American atheist and agnostic voters are increasingly feeling left out of the debate or flat out...

Mazen Asbahi, the attorney who had volunteered as Barack Obama's outreach coordinator to Muslim and Arab-Americans, has resigned after accusations of ties to Jamal Said, an imam at a fundamentalist mosque in Illinois. Asbahi briefly sat on the board of Allied Assets Advisors Fund with Said...

Immigrant communities in the US, whether able to vote or not, have so far played a public role in this year's elections. Many, fed up with US foreign policy, are looking to the incoming president, whomever it may be, for change. One such community is the large Iranian-American Jewish community,...

As U.S. presidential hopeful Barack Obama wrapped up a tour of Israel and Palestine, newspaper headlines all over the world were fixated on the Senator's attention to Israel and the lack of attention he paid to Palestine's struggle.

One headline in particular, from Israel's Haaretz, aptly summed up...

Barack Obama is making headlines this week in the Palestinian blogosphere: partly for his visit to the West Bank and partly for his turn on the cover of this week's New Yorker.

Of the former, Gaza Strip: The Untold Story says:

Finally, we Palestinians and Arab Americans...

When Al Jazeera announced its plans to release English-language channel in 2005, the announcement was met with both support and protest in the United States. And so, although the U.S. government doesn't prevent access to the channel, many cable companies, in deciding among the many competitive channels to provide...

On Wednesday, June 11, Fox News aired a segment in which anchor Megyn Kelly and conservative blogger Michelle Malkin discussed conservative attacks on Michelle Obama, Senator and Presidential hopeful Barack Obama's wife. While the segment aired, a caption appeared along the bottom of the screen reading: "Outraged liberals:...