Barack Obama spoke of the power of change while addressing his many supporters in Chicago’s Grant Park.

The speech came an hour after the Illinois Senator was declared the next President-elect of the United States.

NBC was the first to make the projection… and other networks ran with it immediately after.

We’re tracking initial reactions to Obama’s acceptance speech, and his victory from Politco.com, CNN, Fox News, and the Chicago Tribune.

First, Politico recapped the night as a resounding victory for Obama and the Democratic Party.

“This is a resounding victory and now we’ll going to see how this man will lead. He’s getting a huge, huge help with Congress. It looks like Democrats are gong to get near sixty seats, that muscular sixty seat majority that any president would dream of having.  He’s going have a huge majority in the House. A majority Democrats haven’t seen in a generation. Combined you’re going have a governing force this town has not seen in some time, you have to go back to the 1960’s to see a Democratic majority with a Democratic president. That has this much momentum, with this much strength. Now the big question is: How does he govern.” (Politico.com)

CNN provided reflections on the significance of an Obama presidency for the African-American community.

“When their children see it, I want to be a doctor I want to be a lawyer, I want to be a politician, I want to be an astronaut. They always said, when every I heard a kid say, I want to be president, I literally saw black parents say, son or daughter, you may want to think about being something else. I have 9 nieces and 4 nephews, and when I talk to them, I can actually say that.” (CNN)

On Fox News, the analysis focused on Obama’s victory as a voter response against President Bush.

"It's about change. I think its people saying I want to get beyond the war, beyond the partisanship that's come to define Washington politics over the past era. I think it's the young people who want to stick their finger in our eye when it comes to race in specific.” (FOX News)

And from the Chicago Tribune we get an editorial piece in support of the Obama win.

The Tribune writes:

“Obama won by appealing to a deep yearning for national reconciliation and unity that spans partisan divides…he reminded us that amid our often-contentious diversity, we are one nation joined in a common mission.” (The Chicago Tribune)

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