A historic night, obviously. I’m still floored Obama did as well as he did in Lancaster County - less than 27,000 votes separated McCain and Obama here. Here. In a community that has so long prided itself as being the buckle on the Bible belt.
Strange days indeed.
Stayed up to watch Obama’s acceptance speech last night. […]

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Been out and about tonight. You didn’t want to read it an I didn’t want to write it.
But:
Barack Obama is the 44th President of the United States.
Barack Obama swept to victory as the nation’s first black president Tuesday night in an electoral college landslide that overcame racial barriers as old as America itself.
God bless fricking […]

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Politico’s Ben Smith on the “Black Panther” bidness in Philly:
The McCain camp also sent out, and Drudge is driving, the story of Black Panthers allegedly intimidating voters at a Philadelphia poll site. The story is disputed; indeed, it’s such a heavily Democratic spot that it wouldn’t make a huge amount of sense for Obama backers […]

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Riffing on Matt Y.’s question, Ta-Nehisi Coates notes:
I think it comes from drinking your own Kool-Aid. To these guys, America is still Joe the Plumber. This is why you hear them disqualifying whole swaths of the country with phrases like “the pro-America parts” or “real Virginia.” They have mistaken their little retreat in the forest, […]

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Whatever happens today, right-wingers will claim the only reason they lost is because the evil lib’rulz cheated.

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Tom Murse in the Era, today:
New Era interviews with nearly 200 early-morning voters in city, suburban and rural districts here found Democrat Barack Obama running ahead in this GOP-dominated county — a bad sign for Republican John McCain’s chances of winning Pennsylvania.
OK, so it’s not scientific, and perhaps not indicative of the county as a […]

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Such victims.
It’s not fair!

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Matt Y. on why Joe the Plumber isn’t resonating outside the GOP base - and, maybe, why so many of the angry callers to this here phone numbers are white males:
Whites are more Republican than non-whites. Men are more Republican than women. Small business owners are more Republican than any other occupational group. High-income people […]

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One of Sullivan’s readers:
Half an hour before the polls open, and we’re over a hundred back in line. By 7AM, when the doors open, there are at least another 350 behind us. The line stretches a full city block. By the same time in 2004, turnout was less than a quarter of this.
To win Pennsylvania, […]

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Karl already on record predicting Obama landslide.

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Will not be surprised at all if home rule goes down to defeat.

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“Obama sat in Rev. Wright’s church for 20 years and listened to that hate.”
Any Ann Coulter books in yer bookshelves, sport?
It’s all so unfair!
Every single OUTRAGED voice mail seems to be from a white male. Unsurprisingly.
Update:
Do NOT be condescending to Republicans.
Man! Good thing Rush and Hannity and Coulter and (insert 5,000 more names here) have […]

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It’s just all so unfair, if you’re a Republican!
The liberal media - can you believe it? The liberal media is why the Republicans are losing!
And those elections that Bush won, when Republicans held control of Congress? The liberal media wasn’t a factor, or wasn’t as much of a factor; but now, it’s the deciding factor. Now […]

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Watching Monday Night Football last night (Stillers!) and I channel-surfed at halftime, did-not-want to listen to Obama and McCain once more.
But got a chuckle out of the full-court McCain press - particularly the Wright ad, which I hadn’t seen before. Saw it several times during the game, but about the second time I thought: What a […]

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No line by the time I got there ate 8:30, though it was steady - steadier than I’ve seen it. The guy whom I usually chat on election day said that when then opened at 7 a.m., there was a line of 100 people, stretching around the block.
Hearing similar things from colleagues, many of whom […]

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Mentioned that I got a whole ton o’ e-mail over the weekend from the bitter enders - movement conservatives who realize it’s all crashing down around their ears.
Here’s one representative note:
I am sure you will get your “something new to take place” and I hope you are enjoy the results. Have a wonderful liberal day […]

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Whomever you plan to cast your ballot for, go cast yer ballot today. More later.

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I see stuff like this - Sarah Palin wondering if the Dems think terrorists are “the good guys” - and I’m reminded, for whatever reason, of the closing days before Bill Clinton beat George H.W. Bush in 1992, when Bush the senior had taken to calling Clinton and Al Gore “Bozo and Ozone Man.”
Probably thrilling […]

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Pretty accurate, I’d say:
Think about it: the biggest single worry of the Obama campaign has been organizer let-down and voters who get lazy and complacent with such massive leads in the polling data. The Drudge Report, who is influential in driving the news cycle, skews heavily in favor of outlier polls that suggest a down-to-the-wire […]

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So I see the local GOP has gone into outrage mode - default mode - over the fact that the local Democrat Party posted online ways that Republicans might try to suppress the vote.
The GOP even wants an investigation, calling the memo “fraudulent and possibly criminal.”
Right.
Tell you what. I’m going to the polls tomorrow and […]

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