Obama supporters bask in glow of second chance

Huddled around a celebratory lunch, the three ladies from Richmond, Virginia, basked in the afterglow of their president’s second inauguration.

“We won the election for him, you know,” Beverly Davis told the Irish Examiner.

For her and her two friends, Carolyn Harris and Xochela James, this was as personal as it can get: Three African-American women who helped at the grassroots of a successful campaign to deliver the vital battleground which normally describes itself as the “state for lovers”.