Looking back at the election

Obama was the declared the winner of North Carolina yesterday, which the AP called a “symbolic triumph.” “Obama's win in North Carolina was the first for a Democratic presidential candidate since Jimmy Carter won the state in 1976.” "The USA Today/Gallup survey , conducted on Wednesday and released yesterday, asked how people felt about Obama's election: 67 percent said proud, 67 percent said optimistic, and 59 percent said excited. Thirty percent said pessimistic, and 27 percent said afraid."    "Whether whites supported Barack Obama or not, they don't seem to have lied to pollsters about it. Obama's election triumph on Tuesday presented no evidence of the so-called Bradley effect, in which whites who oppose a black politician mislead pollsters about whom they will vote for. Instead, national and state pre-election polls were generally accurate in reflecting voters' preferences in the presidential contest." ...( read more ) (link)