We win.
We won.
WE won.
McCain, nice speech at the end, very positive and classy. Barack, I might miss your speech tonight. I'm tired and in a time zone twice behind my own. But I can hear the "whoohoooooooooos" and "YEAHS!" on the San Francisco treat. I mean, street.
Beep beep! Celebrate! The country has spoken loud and clear, and the very, very close race that unfolded tonight shows that there is a serious class issue in the US. It was amazing to see those cross sections of middle states like Pennsylvania, when the whole state was red except for a couple blue blotches, and it still went to the Democrats. Amazing, and a bit scary.
It was also weird to watch Fox News and CNN disect the voting demographics into such blatant class issues: race, education, gender. Not soccer moms (although that also states, woman, educated, home owner in the same breath). We went back to basics, which I think we were reduced to those qualifiers by the recent turns of the economy.
That's it. No more politics from this lady.
Except this: I am just so, so glad that White House will not be welcoming someone known as Todd, aka, First Dude.
Yikes.
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We went to bed right after you called, so we didn't find out until this morning. Happiness!
I am jealous of your location in the city where you heard people celebrating. All Aaron and I heard in our small suburban local was a few more crickets chirping.
Crickets for Obama!
(man am I overtired.)
I've always just assumed that those spots that are blue in a big 'ol red state are where the cities are, and we all know that city dwellers tend to be more liberal. Right? Kind of like Fargo versus Hebron.
I was a bit stunned with the demographics - but it seemed to me that they were using every general descriptor possible - age, gender, race, education, religion, income, political party, etc. I had images of people taking exit polls with a huge list of possible boxes to check to describe themselves.
book lover? Check.
Mom? Check.
Spend too much time on internet? Check.
Glad the politics are over?
Check.
Also happy the First Dude isn't in DC?
Check. That's just weird.
what killed me was looking at the people who were at mccain's concession speech... i didn't see any diversity what so ever. that made me sad, but i do think he was very classy about his speech. i hope the pre-election john mccain is back.
I concur that I hope McCain returns to his pre-election form. If anything, this election taught me that the republican political machine can turn even some of our most honored statesmen into unlikeable folks.
i can honestly say that I hope Barack brings McCain in close and takes a cue from good ol'(dendays) Lincoln: did you know he kept all three presidential candidates that ran against him as cabinet members? Smart guy, that L.
As long as M doesn't bring in any of that anti-choice crazy Palin bananas rogue crap.
BOO YAH NO SHE DIDINT!
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