As we were wrapping up The Election Issue, the staff at the Chronicle racked their brains for a headline that would sell. We needed a headline that would say “historic” and “connected to Chicago” at the same time. We played around with a few ideas, ultimately settling on no headline at all. Why, you ask? Well, our front cover is a photo, but there’s no one story to name. It’s the whole issue. We didn’t want our brainstorming to go to waste, though, so here are some of the headlines-that-couldn’t.

Fix it

Whew.

O yes he did

Obamerica

Obamenon

Here’s hoping

From a dream to a reality

Barack’n the USA

End of an error

Bamelot

Git ‘er done

Mr. Obama goes to Washington

That’s President Obama to you