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I'm so absurdly hopeful.
And also a little drunk.
I live in a neighborhood that's mostly empty vacation rentals. You couldn't tell that from the last ten minutes. There are fireworks and firecrackers being set off down the block. People are screaming up in the hills, there are cars driving around leaning on their horns.
It's like New Years. I didn't realize this many people lived here, and all I can hear are their voices, but that's enough.
I can't believe it's happened.
McCain has called Obama and conceded.
Yeah, Patrick, I'm gobsmacked too.
"Mother Rosa sat down so Martin could march. Martin marched, and that meant Barack could run. Barack ran so our children will be able to fly."
I just saw Jesse Jackson standing in Grant Park with tears streaming down his face. My dad was a Jackson delegate to the National Convention in '88. I never thought I'd see this day, or be this happy.
Yes, we can!
Pardon me if, after the past two elections, I believe it only when Obama takes the oath of office.
Patrick, I'm alternately crying and laughing.
I live in what is a 'border state'. where Confederate and Northern ties are still recognized in horrible ways. (mostly Confederates are the ones that pick at the wounds.)
I'm so proud. And I'm so happy. And it sounds like McCain is being a gentleman (I'm listing to his concession speech). And such a kind comment about Obama's grandmother.
AND, I never thought I'd vote for a Nixon, but Jay Nixon as been voted in as the Missouri Governor. He's a way better choice.
I'm pretty much verklempt.
I know no single human being could walk on water, much less single-handedly cure all the many ills in this country and government, so I know better than to put all that hope solely on Obama's presidency.
However, tonight I'm just going to celebrate, and resign myself to keeping up the good fight tomorrow, with a little more hope that said fight will go more on the side of justice and decency, in this country and abroad.
Watching McCain's concession speech now: he's a great deal more gracious than his supporters.
This is a wonderful result.
And takes the oath of office...
Deep breath: now the real work begins.
--jm
It feels like a personal victory, like most people in the country really think and feel like I do, contrary to all evidence piling up these last several years. It feels like this country really IS my country.
It's like the nation is Frosty the Snowman and the nation is saying, "Happy Birthday!"
No better way to end these eight years.
B
I think McCain deserves some credit for conceding this early. He certainly didn't have to. I feel like I'm watching 2000 McCain rather than the one of the last three months.
Spent the evening baking. I bake when I'm nervous. Six cakes. I'm not sure how I'm going to transport them to work.
Well, the dog chewed off the top of one layer. Shit. I guess I'm keeping that one.
Ran out for a burger and fries. By the time I got back, it was OVER. Fifteen minutes from "looking good for Obama" to "hmmm, landslide."
I rushed outside to light off a big firework when I heard that McCain called Obama to concede.
I wasn't the only one. Bangs from the neighborhood next door.
McCain's concession speech was underway when I got back in. So far it seems classy.
Beyond yay!
Singing with happiness!
I don't know what to say. I'm so overjoyed. I think I just heard fireworks somewhere down the street.
My birthday is on Saturday. I choose to believe this is a gift from the nation. Thank you, America.
Here, about 2.5-3 miles north of Grant Park, I'd swear that we can almost hear the cheering, although my beloved says otherwise.
That was a heck of a concession speech. McCain, not doing more like that is what lost you this election.
McCain is a lot more decent than his supporters.
I'm listening to Congressman John Lewis on MSNBC right now. He seems overwhelmed by the outcome tonight. Almost as overwhelmed as Jesse Jackson.
Finally.
It's been eight long, hard years since that faithful day in november 2000 that gave Bush the chance to steal the election for the first time. Remember how angry and disappointed we were back then, and how much more anger, grief and disappointment have followed since then?
Finally there will now be somebody who, if not a leftist, is at least competent and not driven by spite.
Somebody spiked my Obama Kool-Aid. I'll have some more thanks!
I wrote a quick reaction to this on my livejournal, tried to write something more professional for my own website, can't. I start crying every time I try. I'll have to tackle it in the morning.
Martin Luther King said forty years ago, "I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character."
I'm so happy I got a chance to judge Obama by the content of his character ... to find that he was the best man for the job ... and cast a vote for him for president. And that the majority of America also voted for him.
I am so happy. I can't quite take it in. A righteous wind...
Now comes the hard work.
I've got a half a bottle of champagne in me and I feel like a great weight has been lifted from my back.
BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA, 44th PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES!
Mr. Leuchtag: Come sit down. Have a brandy with us.
Mrs. Leuchtag: To celebrate our leaving for America tomorrow.
Carl: Oh, thank you very much. I thought you would ask me, so I brought the good brandy. And - a third glass!
Mrs. Leuchtag: At last the day is came!
Mr. Leuchtag: Mareichtag and I are speaking nothing but English now.
Mrs. Leuchtag: So we should feel at home when we get to America.
Carl: Very nice idea, mm-hmm.
Mr. Leuchtag: [toasting] To America!
Mrs. Leuchtag: To America!
Carl: To America!
Mr. Leuchtag: Liebchen - sweetnessheart, what watch?
Mrs. Leuchtag: Ten watch.
Mr. Leuchtag: Such much?
Carl: Hm. You will get along beautiful in America, mm-hmm.
(from Casablanca)
well done America, in Australia we managed to get rid of our tyranical leader in our last election as well (i was ready to move to New Zealand if we didn't) so i can imagine how many of you must be feeling... congratulations
Yes! Tonight we rejoin the world! And-best of all-he won VIRGINIA! WOOHOO!
Woman singing the national anthem at the Obama rally sure has a great voice!
I am so happy. Obama is about to speak. This is a great day.
I suppose I should be more sober. I couldn't help it; I kept dancing in circles, chanting "Down in flames! DOWN IN FLAMES!" as the returns came in for the Democrats.
Now time to eat a bit and listen to the new President-Elect.
I am so happy.
We were just out on our front stoop trading jubilations with the kids four houses down who play loud music. One of them suddenly let out a whoop, jumped down laughing into their bitty front yard, and yelled "Holy shit, we have a black president!"
Unbelievably good news! Maybe I'll put off signing these Divorce America papers for a bit.
Wooo!!
So far, so good...
Now comes the calm unifying work to put to rest the fears of those worrying about riots and other foolishness.
Dear citizens, dear voters: thank you, thank you, thank you.
WHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!! President Obama! :)
It's not done until Wayne Ever-Lovin' County in the Hoosier State counts the votes! I am not leaving this spot.
No, wait. I still have a piece of baked chicken in the fridge. I'll be right back.
#36: Black America deserves a really thorough-going thanks from the rest of us for saving us from the carpenter ants of the GOP. McCain was ahead in the polls in White America.
Carrie @#16, I agree--- this is the McCain I knew, liked, and voted for in the 2004 primaries.
I'm quite proud of the students I work with-- shirt and TIE to go cast their votes today.
I can't think of a damned thing to say. I just keep checking to make sure it's true.
*hugs everyone*
*whoops*
Now I don't have to move to Canada!
I'm 54 years old. I spent much of my youth in a racist Arkansas. I am sitting here with tears streaming down my face. I never thought in my wildest dreams that I would see a black man elected president. I am so grateful that God has permitted me to see this day.
I feel a little bad about this, but I am going into work knowing that if a black man can become the president then certainly I can succeed at the challenges laid out before me at work.
Once Ohio was called I thought it was pretty much set. McCain's concession speech was probably the most decent I've seen him for the whole thing.
I admit I did take a perverse pleasure at seeing Palins pained looks when they cut to her.
I sat here and said "Keith, America has a black president. A black man is president of the United States. Oh my God." And I cried. (Keith is my boyfriend.)
For years, my most-stated phrase has been "I love living in the future."
"I want my country back" has been right behind it. Today, tonight, I feel like I not only got my country back, I got a better America than I had reason or cause to hope for in my lifetime.
There's still plenty to be concerned about, plenty that might well lead me to say again, "I want my country back." But right now, right now I am so very, very proud of my country, so very, very proud of my fellow Americans.
For the first time in my life, I also have the pleasure of having voted for the president-elect.
Kenyans are celebrating. It's beautiful.
Dear Karl, Newt, Dick, George, Grover, et al:
You can't fool all of the people all of the time.
Good Night to you.
From Canuckistan: God Bless Us, Every One!
338 electoral votes?! (so far!) Thanks for the nice place to celebrate!
I'm still waiting for the final, Certified, total numbers. (And grumbling about TMM practically calling it before the polling-places in the West close, thus possibly causing the numbers I want to be smaller than they might be.) I'm hoping for a really large majority of the popular vote to be for Obama, so that he can be considered to have a genuine Mandate.
Such creebing aside, I'm thankful to have lived long enough to see this day.
The next Presidential milestone will, if all goes well, be in eight years, though I rather hope the Democratic Party will find a candidate more liberal than Hillary Clinton, and now my eyes (& hopes) are set on that.
I'm still biting my fingernails about North Carolina even while I'm excited about Senator-to-be Hagan and Governor-to-be Perdue, and ecstatic about Obama's win.
According to the results the NC Board of Elections links to, Obama and McCain are less than a percentage point apart with 95 counties out of 100 reporting. McCain is listed as being 5433 votes ahead.
ohpleaseohpleaseohplease let the last five counties go for Obama...
Posting in epic victory thread! Yay!
I was also impressed with McCain's speech, and the way CNN's analysts went into appreciation mode as soon as the race was called. I'm so optimistic that the hope this election has inspired spreads like a virus across the nation and we can really be as good as we know we can be. All of us.
CONGRETULATIONS!
(Sorry, I'd say something more original if I could think of anything)
Well, how about that.
Still waiting for the final totals, but...
How about that.
Yeah.
Obama rally now playing "your love is lifting me higher". A tribute to Massachusetts?
Obama rally now playing "your love is lifting me higher". A tribute to Massachusetts?
Obama has 2 very happy little girls!
The news is reporting that there's hundreds of people celebrating outside the White House and thousands on U street -- they've had to detour traffic.
I just finished talking with my mother in Kansas City. She says the world has changed, and it's high time it did. She also thinks Obama has more problems facing him than FDR did when he won in 1932. I expect she's right on both points.
Any word on Proposition 8?
"Block by block, brick by brick, calloused hand by calloused hand."
Yes.
I've had a good shot of Scotch and I'm looking for more; I think I've got so much adrenaline running that I burned through the alcohol in seconds.
Oh... ghods... this strange feeling, like a bubble in my chest. I think it's... HOPE.
Wow. Just... wow. I won't be still until inauguration day either, but still. This is an amazing moment.
Did you see that?
He just now, very quietly, with one adjectival phrase, gave his campaign's slogan back to the nation as a whole.
I love this man.
Nicole #68, that exact line was the one that got me. A black man that gives shoutouts to the working class is going to be my president. My mind is completely blown.
Do you think McCain seemed relieved in his concession?
I hope never to hear "Democrat" as an adjective ever again.
The famous last paragraph of Chekhov's "Lady with the Dog" comes to mind:
"And it seemed as though in a little while the solution would be found, and then a new and splendid life would begin; and it was clear to both of them that they had still a long, long road before them, and that the most complicated and difficult part of it was only just beginning."
It ain't over, it's just starting.
Barack - Don't. Screw. This. Up.
Listening to Obama's speech. I particularly appreciated his homage to the women who fought for the right to vote. They are too often forgotten.
Yes we can. Where we breathe, we hope. I'm going to cry now, just a little.
All this, and a puppy? It's just too much.
Stefan (17), you too? Wamt to swap? We can never eat this much apple strudel. I've never been six cakes nervous, though I once found it necessary to roast three chickens in completely different styles. Good thing we had guests.
Kathryn (63), it's a pleasure to see those kids.
Irene Gallo lives in the Flatiron District, and she reports that people are doing exactly what you'd expect: gathering in Union Square.
If this guy doesn't quit quoting Lincoln, I'm going to dissolve entirely.
Holy shit.
Holy shit, holy shit, holy shit. He won.
What is to come will be hard, so hard, like shoveling water out of a deep hole in a downpour. It will be demoralizing. It will drain away our hope.
When that comes, remember tonight.
And really, that is what he's done more than anything I think. Maybe no matter what else he does it's the one thing that will mark everything. He's given hope back to a lot of ppl. He has made a lot of people who gave up get involved again. I for one want to see where it goes. I know I am feeling like there is a chance.
Trying to figure out how to streak through this thread. Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!
*naked*naked*naked*naked*naked*naked*
Lost it during the call-and-response part of President-Elect Obama's speech. Our whole results-watching party has been bursting into tears over and over again.
Myrtle and Washington Streets in Brooklyn are in happy chaos.
I'm so so happy. I've been offline for a lot of tonight, but I loved knowing y'all were here.
Kathryn @ 42, let's thank the women too (actually, the groups do overlap some). CNN's national exit polls show that 53% of the voters were women, and that 45% of men voting and 55% of women voting went for Obama.
On second thought, I'll take that concession ftw.
Yes we did.
God I have been ugly crying for the entirety of Obama's speech. Ugly crying. Sobbing like a baby. Jesus. Jesus. My TV says OBAMA WINS PRESIDENCY. God. God.
Weeping. Sobbing. Like a baby. Jesus. President Obama. For real. Really Really Really.
I kind of wish we still had a TV.
fidelio @#67: Try the SF Chronicle. Looks like it's going to pass.
I really hope somebody posts a transcript of Obama's acceptance speech within the next few days. I wanna hear that again!
Geez, people, say what you really feel!
November 4, 2008. I'm glad I was here to see it.
This feels like the first election of the 21st century.
@ byron #86
http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/news/2008/11/remarks_of_president-elect_bar.php
I live in Florida, which for a Democrat is a bit like being a vegetarian at a cannibal convention. And it went for Obama! Jesus Christ, the world just flipped over. I am so... don't have words.
Hiya, Rose! Want some strudel?
Breaking the race barrier is the big story here; but there was a moment when I looked at all the Obamas and Bidens up there on the stage, and realized that if there were any remaining Know-Nothings out there, they were expiring of apoplexy.
Neener-neener-neeeeeeeeeeeener!
America, you made the whole world proud. There aren't any words that can express how I feel today... thank you. Thank you.
I don't think it was sinking in, right up until he talked about the 106-year old black lady, and how much the U.S. has changed in her lifetime. Then I just sat here with tears streaming down my face.
I was standing on an icy sidewalk not far from a polling place, near the end of the evening shift of holding up signs for No on Proposition 8, when one of my fellow sign-holders told me Obama had taken Ohio and Pennsylvania. She told me that people were lining the streets of Chicago. I didn't start really believing it would happen until then.
Obama's speech hit just the right tone.
I'm completely buzzed.
Finished the rum; think we'll go to bed shortly. Yeeehaw!
I was standing on an icy sidewalk not far from a polling place, near the end of the evening shift of holding up signs for No on Proposition 8, when one of my fellow sign-holders told me Obama had taken Ohio and Pennsylvania. She told me that people were lining the streets of Chicago. I didn't start really believing it would happen until then.
Obama's speech hit just the right tone.
I'm completely buzzed.
Wayne County, IN has *finally* reported in, and it's official: Indiana is a blue state. Dayamn. Never thought I'd see the day.
http://www.co.wayne.in.us/voter/election2008/general/final.htm
(McCain was down 15K statewide, so the slight win in Wayne County isn't enough.)
Steve C. @ #87: "This feels like the first election of the 21st century."
What you said. It could be bad down the road. Really bad. But I finally feel like we're looking ahead.
Byron @86: your wish, my command: Talking Points Memo haz mad typing skillz.
Pablo Defendini @88:
Thank you! Bookmarked!
Wow. Wow.
I didn't wear waterproof mascara today, I just realized.
I think I'm finally letting myself feel hopeful. Heh.
Baruch atah adonai eloheinu melech ha'olam
Shehecheyanu v'kiyimanu v'higianu laz'man hazeh.
Fantastic! We celebrate tonight. The next bit of work starts tomorrow or soon after.
Did anyone else think he seemed really somber? I am very sad for his loss of Toot.
Oddly enough, on the very first day of my short politically aware life that I am actually deeply proud of my country, I also stand what appears more and more to be a good chance to be deeply ashamed of my state for the very first time.
Oh California, for justice and decency, do not approve Prop 8.
Even so, I've never felt more pride to be a voting American.
Ford's "long national nightmare is over" line needs to be updated.
"Horror show?" "Disgrace?"
Wow. What an unbelievable night.
Chris Quinones@73: you're not the only one. My mother said she hadn't seen McCain look so normal in ages.
God, I think I might actually sleep tonight.
Steve C. @ #87: "This feels like the first election of the 21st century."
It feels like we're finally living in the future.
Just a thought - MLK day in 2009 is January 19. Inauguration Day is January 20.
Oh yeah. Nov. 4th was my birthday. This result is the best birthday present I've ever gotten.
I'm so happy. That's all.
(I'd be happier if proposition 8 crashed and burned.)
Not going so well in California on local propositions. The Bay Area is an outnumbered strip of "no" on Prop 8 surrounded by a state full of "yes" on it (except for Alpine county). We're not winning on our "supertrain" to Los Angeles, either (Prop 1A). At least the abortion notification proposition is losing.
Michael Roberts @98:
Thanks to you as well.
Talking Points Memo haz mad typing skillz.
Agreed sir!
Delurking from Australia to say Congratulations America!
Great crowds in our office have been following the numbers all day, and we just caught Obama's speech on TV... great jubilation here, so I can only image what it's like over there!
If the enthusiasm you all have now carries into the challenges ahead, then the whole world is about to become a better place. Thank you.
Man, that speech ... that has me in tears.
Congratulations from a northern neighbor!
Although I regret that I'll have a much harder time recruiting talent from the US to move to Canada now ;-)
Happy birthday, Linkmeister.
Indiana is blue. I want to hear North Carolina called for Obama.
Bachmann in Minnesota appears to be holding on to her seat. Feh.
Prop 8 is passing BUT none of the Bay Area counties have been counted. It may yet go down.
6:30 a.m. Didn't stay up all night. Got up with my son (13). He brought the paper in and scanned headlines (they brought it to bed too early for results, of course) while I turned on the BBC.
Obama. 238:155. And the blessed words, "McCain conceded."
I wanted to go up and tell my daughter right away, but my son wouldn't let me -- he wanted the honor.
Dang. 338 of course!! I'm not awake yet.
Amid all of the tears, joy, exultation, and relief, a round of applause for Senator McCain. He was gracious, and he spoke like a statesman instead of a politician. Then add PRESIDENT-ELECT Obama's speech, which left me sitting here with tears in my eyes, and it's been a hell of a night.
I'm glad that I have lived to see this.
#76: Strudel? I bet that takes actual work.
I just made lots and lots of mix cakes:
Two Funfetti layer cakes (one with a big hunk cut out of one layer, where Kira bit off a piece as it cooled on a too-low table), which will get white frosting.
One Spice layer cake, to get cream cheese frosting.
One Dark Chocolate layer cake. Dark chocolate frosting.
Two Devil's Food sheet cakes, some kind of chocolate frosting.
I have enough Red, White, and Blue sprinkles for at least some of them.
I found enough boxes to get them to work. I'm going to call them Celebration / Consolation cakes.
People here at my office in Tokyo seem quite happy -- and almost none of them are Americans.
I cried too. Granted, maybe it's because I'm drunk. But I'll be sober tomorrow, and Barack Obama will still be president. Life is good.
Congratulations to everyone involved! Apart from a certain relative of mine who appears to have voted according to a f(o)etus-based agenda, it's popery, what can you do.
My customary veneer of cynicism about the American experiment looks worn though in places. But spare a moment's thought for the boy George as he spends the next couple of months watching his legacy lazily spiral in towards the centre of the bowl.
OK, that's enough.
Please, don't let Norm Coleman win.
Please, please, please, don't let Michelle Bachmann win.
pleasepleaseplease don't let Prop 8 win....
Please, don't let Norm Coleman win.
Please, please, please, don't let Michelle Bachmann win.
pleasepleaseplease don't let Prop 8 win....
Damn, When I left home I knew that Ohio and Pennsylvania had gone to Obama. Came home to find we had a new president elect. Hot damn.
I am so happy. And so happy that my daughter, who cast her first vote ever today, got to see the man she voted for win.
Now if we can just squeeze Prop. 8 out...
@elise #127
We're still waiting with you. It ain't over yet.
People are still honking their cars and whooping as they drive by. :) Kids walking down the street occasionally cheer. (I'm in Seattle. Whee.)
I'm a little afraid to go to bed -- what if I wake up and find out it was all a dream?
The race-baiting, the mud-slinging, the gutter tactics -- they didn't just fail, they backfired! Let future campaigns take note.
Ladies and gentlemen, after eight years of our popular "the government should get to wiretap and arrest everyone it wants, whenever wants, whereever it wants, for how long it wants" special we on the American right will now return to our regularly scheduled "the government is the evil tool of the illuminati global world domination conspiracy" show. Thank you.
I hope we've done a little bit to redress the disappointment we've been to the rest of the world in recent years.
Elise, Michelle Bachmann may still win, but she'll be quacking lame from day one.
Must crash now. You guys know where the the extra chips and soda are stashed.
Glory be.
I'm glad I could share this moment with my children and husband. My daughter quoted Maya Angelou's poem "I too am America".
Nearly cried out, I am grateful beyond words.
Thanks for hosting the election night gathering place, Nielsen Haydens. I could not wish for finer company.
There are not nearly enough happy whoopings in the streets of north Boulder. I expect the Hill is a madhouse, and I thought I heard fireworks, but my little unfashionable neighborhood is rather quiet except for one shriek from a balcony across the parking lot.
I never thought Aslan's last speech in the Narnia books would feel so appropriate to real life: "The dream is ended: this is the morning."
Madeleine @ 128:
My first two major votes were for the California Governor following the recall of Gray Davis, and then the Presidential election in 2004. Both times, I believed in the power of my vote and both times I faced the bitterness of my vote counting among the minority.
That is an extremely unpleasant, discouraging experience for a first-time voter. I think it's wonderful that your daughter gets to feel the pride of her first vote being a powerful thing, particularly in a troubled time.
Like I said, it's a wonderful thing.
Oh
Thank
God
(says the Architectural Deist who doesn't think prayers are answered...).
This ain't the end. It ain't even the beginning of the end.
But maybe this is the end of the beginning...
(looks at whisky bottle. It's nearly empty. Looks at clock - it's nearly 1:30.)
Oh boy...
(Thanks for the link, and the analysis, Bruce. Good to see you again, if only electronically).
K.C. Shaw @ 46: "Now I don't have to move to Canada!"
Now I don't have to move back to the US.
(If McCain had won, our nation would have needed more patriots, not fewer. Thank everything that the tree of liberty is not yet thirsty.)
Also...I am having fun plugging in "nation_name news" and checking out reactions all over the globe. So far, Russia's Pravda has cracked me up the most with "8 years of hell are over," and Germany's Spiegel has struck me as being extremely practical, both welcoming the new president-elect and presenting him with a wish list, while reminding their readers that the President is not like Santa Claus and comes with limitations. I know all my Canadian friends are heaving sighs of relief right about now.
Oh, hey. Over here in Colorado, where Mark Udall won? His defeated opponent, Bob Shaffer, was quoted as saying something like, "My opponent's supporters poured money into the state and bought a lot of votes." Man. Sore loser much?
Teresa #133 - "I hope we've done a little bit to redress the disappointment we've been to the rest of the world in recent years."
It's a whole lot more than just a little bit. We here in South Africa suddenly love America again! And we are crying our eyeballs out, and being all marshmallowy. It feels good and right, even though we know that once the party's over it's going to be hard. That's OK though, just as long as it goes steady. Wish us luck for our own elections next year... we are going to need oodles of it.
Correction: it's by Langston Hughes.
Here's a link, for anyone who has not been quite thoroughly cried out tonight. http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/i-too/
(If McCain had won, our nation would have needed more patriots, not fewer. Thank everything that the tree of liberty is not yet thirsty.)
I'll just say there is a reason I'm thanking a deity I think is less responsive than Crom....
Well, congratulations, all you Americans! You did a splendid job! And thanks to Making Light for providing such a comfortable place to watch and wait and hope.
My legs are on fire. I just got home from the precinct. I was the Electronic Voting Specialist -- that is, I walked people through using the ballot box-with-scanner-on-top and the touchscreen ballot filler-out. It meant I was on my feet most of the time from a bit before six in the morning until a bit after nine at night (and actually that meant I got out faster than I ever have before, a fact I attrribute to a cleaner, quicker, easier checkout process).
I have never seen so many voters. I have never seen so many young voters, I have never seen so many first-time voters. I have never seen so many excited voters.
I have the beginnings of an idea about what the last two elections did in preparing the framework for the outside-the-party organization for this one, but I'm just not smart enough to work it out.
My father was raised in Mississippi, and he and my mother moved back to his home county when he retired. I checked the county returns at Talking Points Memo for my mother, who was curious about the results, although she's now in Kansas City.
They are about what you'd expect if you're familiar with the Magnolia State--blue in the Delta counties and Jackson, and red in most of the rest of the state, with some odd blue spots. Among these is Jefferson Davis County, where, with all precincts reporting, the totals are 61% Obama 39% McCain.
Oh, the irony.
Elise @ 126, right there with you. Those three things are why I'm still awake.
I am so proud, so happy, so freaking overwhelmed that I keep pinching myself to know that Obama's win is real and not a dream.
Now I just need Prop.8 here in California to lose.
My girfriend (Caroline) has been crying tears of joy for a solid two hours.
I honestly never thought I'd see this. I feel like this is really the first step to fixing the mess of the last 8 years.
Looks like NC went blue (barely). I can go to bed now.
Please let it be as the NC board of elections says in NC: http://results.enr.clarityelections.com/NC/7937/13221/en/summary.html
We drank all the champagne. I don't know what to do if NC goes blue.
Stunned, overjoyed, scared, thrilled, stunned we didn't lose....utterly worn out. XD
Now, to catch up on all the blogs!!
The Onion's hot out of the box: Bush: Can I Stop Being President Now?
Nenya @153: Now, to catch up on all the blogs!!
Perhaps you might want to avoid them while you're in that happy mood- some of them report pretty ugly reactions from online wingnuts.
Lizzy tired. Bedtime. Goodnight moon.
Gonna be a bright, bright, sunshiny day...
We are cosmic win!
I left the house to walk the dogs with reports just starting to come in from the West Coast, and when I got back we had a new President. But I was prepared: I'd stopped off on the way home from work to buy a bottle of wine, because I was determined there was going to be something to celebrate, and I found a bottle of cheap California pinot named "Irony". Couldn't resist that, and I'm toasting the removal of the old guard with it right now.
I'm so glad this happened. Aside from the fact that we needed it desperately, I feel like we owe it to the rest of the world to clean up some of the mess our country has made over the last 8 years. Now we have a chance to do that.
One thing left to do here in Oregon: bite my nails until we know for sure if we've rendered Sen. Gordon Smith unemployed. That may take the rest of the night.
Yay! McCain conceded gracefully, and Obama gave a bang-up victory speech, and even struck a few progressive notes!
I may be speechless, but I'm not macro-less:
@skwid #159
well played. many lolz!
RE: K.C. Shaw @ 46: "Now I don't have to move to Canada!"
This just occurred to me today, what country do disgruntled Republicans/NeoCons threaten to move to?
Congratulations, everybody! You all made history.
Peter Carlson @161: I didn't think they did; I thought they just threatened to kick the rest of us out.
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