Doesn't look like NC's gonna be on the right side, but oh well. Doesn't matter. Obama wins anyway!
Update... actually, looks like he pulled ahead by 10,000 or so (out of almost slightly more than 4M votes), after I stopped watching. Though the state still has yet to make the result official. He won NC, too!
Obama Wins!!!
Yay!!!!!!!!! Gobama!
Welcome back USA.
How’s your head today? :)
pretty sore… ouch. damn the Scots and their delicious brown liquor.
Fuck. Yeah.
pounding headache right now
I will note that I have yet to receive instructions from President-Elect BOSHAMO-XX on what government agency to send all of my income to and where to purchase my wife’s burka. They must be finally off their game.
i just finished giving away all my personal belongings – to get a head-start on our glorious communist future!
A self-serving rant:
I first voted in the Bush-Dukakis election in 1988. Loser.
I voted for Harvey Gant, running against Jesse Helms, in 1990 and 1996 (I even sent an absentee ballot in ’90 when I was living in England); Again, Loser. Loser.
I voted for Clinton in 92 and 96. Clinton won, of course, but not in NC. I voted for Gore in 2000 and for Kerry in 2004. Loser. Loser. Every election, I enviously eyed those electoral maps and longed to see my state cast in blue instead of red.
So basically, I’m processing 16 years of personal ballots down the toilet.
But yesterday I was a misty-eyed girly girl when my home state voted our first woman governor; ousted Liddy God-loving Dole (and with another woman to boot!); kicked Robin Hayes to the curb; and became the most Southern state (Florida doesn’t count–it aint real Southern) to turn blue for Obama.
As I’m in South Carolina this week, I keep thinking to myself–ha ha. Y’all voted for McPalin. No, not a productive train of thought. But it just feels good. I’m Southern–I love being from the South. Maybe people won’t be such haters about Southerners (or at least parts of the South) after this. Prolly some will still mock my pronunciation of “pen” and “pin,” though.
:)
pin / pen. dawn / don. evs.
the South ain’t so bad. i got no complaints. there are fucked up and stupid people, badmouthing Those Other People, all over. i was probably 12 before i learned that Brazil nuts weren’t actually called N****r Toes. so much for any claim the North has on enlightenment.
but, yeah. finally, it’s good to have voted for a winner. i was starting to think there was something wrong with me… i hope O doesn’t disappoint too bad! :)
Congratulations, Paige.
Glad for you and us that NC is on the same page, no pun intended, with the rest of the Democratic Party.
My presidential voting history parallels yours, starting with Dukakis, who made Kerry look like FDR.
I was a big Clinton guy, and pushed Hillary even more than Big Bill when she ran for the White House. But the race I have been most passionate about in my lifetime, more so than this one, was Bush v. Gore. That one really, reall hurt. My how the world would be different if Florida went the other way.
Congratulations and good luck to Obama.
As President-Elect, he is making all the right moves so far — the Rahm choice, Summers’ likely return as Secretary of the Treasury, the economic summit he is already holding.
Can’t ever remember a P-E getting down to biz this quickly.
Obama is so impressive in that he didn’t make any real rookie mistakes in the primaries or GE and he continues to operate like a seasoned pro. The man has Zen-like determination.