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Nov. 5th, 2008 11:30 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
swan_towerThere are a lot of things to say about last night. Some of them I'll have to wait on, since I want actual statistics to discuss, rather than exit polls (which are a statistical mess).
But a few scattered thoughts:
I'm glad Jon Stewart was the one to tell me. ^_^ (We were watching Comedy Central's hour-long coverage special at the time.)
McCain supporters at the concession speech: not cool. Speech good, but I wish he had been a little more energetic in quieting the boos.
Part of me wishes I were still in Indiana, not only so I could be part of flipping that state blue -- seriously, the results aren't finalized, but it looks like it happened! -- but so I would have had a real possibility of hopping in the car and driving to Chicago. Because a part of me really wishes I could have been there in Grant Park.
Sadly, my being in California does not appear to have made a difference in Prop 8. But there are already legal battles being prepared; we'll get rid of that thing, and I hope sooner rather than later.
As moving as the headlines from around the country are, what get me more are the international reactions. Very nearly the entire world was rooting for Obama. And while he's going to have a four-year uphill battle, trying to fix the many things that have gone wrong, the simple fact of his election is enough to make many nations look more kindly upon us. That alone is worth the weight of the White House in gold.
Now? The real work begins.
But a few scattered thoughts:
I'm glad Jon Stewart was the one to tell me. ^_^ (We were watching Comedy Central's hour-long coverage special at the time.)
McCain supporters at the concession speech: not cool. Speech good, but I wish he had been a little more energetic in quieting the boos.
Part of me wishes I were still in Indiana, not only so I could be part of flipping that state blue -- seriously, the results aren't finalized, but it looks like it happened! -- but so I would have had a real possibility of hopping in the car and driving to Chicago. Because a part of me really wishes I could have been there in Grant Park.
Sadly, my being in California does not appear to have made a difference in Prop 8. But there are already legal battles being prepared; we'll get rid of that thing, and I hope sooner rather than later.
As moving as the headlines from around the country are, what get me more are the international reactions. Very nearly the entire world was rooting for Obama. And while he's going to have a four-year uphill battle, trying to fix the many things that have gone wrong, the simple fact of his election is enough to make many nations look more kindly upon us. That alone is worth the weight of the White House in gold.
Now? The real work begins.
