This year, the message of hope and change seems to have eluded the campaign, but for a large segment of young America, 80 million strong, those themes still resonate in how they express their aspirations and how they buy.

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The son of a white mother and an African father, he drew on his own life story for the themes that drove his campaign: hope, change and that anything is possible in America.

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For Democrats in the House and Senate and across America, this is the Congress of hope, change and progress.

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