Let’s talk about the results, make snarky comments about the pundits, and discuss the party situation. I’ll accept dire predictions for the future, as well as kumbaya, group hug stuff.
7:00 Why did Obama win? (No results have come in, but we’ve already jumped to the finish line.) Some said the economy. Others said that Obama used New Media perfectly. He married his community organizing skills with a modern election. Bill Bennett just said that Obama himself was the perfect candidate. In two years, he made almost no missteps.
10:10 OH, PA. It’s all going Obama’s way. I would very much like to be in Grant Park tonight. CNN’s stupid, expensive tricks seem to have all failed. They had some hologram thing earlier in the show; they were projecting reporters who were out in the field into the studio next to Wolfie. I think they got it working once and that was it. The Republican headquarters have stopped reporting results and are listening to country music. Check out the Daily Show.
11:01 VA. He’s got it. Wow. Look at those faces at Grant Park. Wow. How about them apples?
Apt. 11d 
All of the above. The financial meltdown sure made a more decisive final stretch, though.
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I agree, all of it. Plus the whole likability, historic candidate, grass roots like mad volunteers, appealing across age, race. He is inspiring. It’s like Reagan’s Morning In America again. He makes us feel good.
The expectations will be huge.
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It’s 10 PM EST, and I’m just letting myself believe this is actually happening.
Really, only in America.
I don’t have huge expectations for Obama, though. This means more to me for what my fellow Americans are doing. They’re proving that Americans really can look at the content of the character.
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Paraphrasing a Bill James line about .250 hitters, financial cataclysms are bad for incumbent parties.
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I, for one, felt SO GOOD about voting for someone who I wanted to vote for – instead of holding my nose like I did the last eight years. (I didn’t know Al Gore would be a principled and, yes, charismatic advocate for environmentalism.)
The Obama election marks a sea change in many ways (oh, if only Rosa Parks had lived to see this!) but I see one of the major ones as, no longer can the DLC, the McAuliffes and Carvilles, force an uninspiring but “electable” candidate upon us and then tell us to go hold our noses and vote. This massive voter turnout has largely been because people HAVEN’T BEEN HOLDING THEIR NOSES. Thank you grassroots!
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