dailykos.com - 11/5/2008
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CNN: Obama win sparks celebrations outside White House (CNN) -- As tens of thousands of people cheered Barack Obama's presidential victory at his home base in Chicago, Illinois, others were celebrating near his future house. At least 1,000 people gathered on Washington's Pennsylvania ...
rossdouthat.theatlantic.com - 11/5/2008
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rossdouthat.theatlantic.com —
Like many conservative writers, my good opinion of
Barack Obama diminished somewhat over the course of the...
campaign. Part of this was the inevitable hardening of the partisan arteries that takes place during a Presidential year, but part of it was ...
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Congratulations, President-Elect Obama
fivethirtyeight.com - 11/3/2008
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fivethirtyeight.com —
With fewer than six hours until voting begins
in Dixville Notch, New Hampshire, the national polling picture...
has cleared up considerably. Barack Obama is on the verge of a victory, perhaps a decisive victory, in the race for the White House. The ...
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Today's Polls, 11/3 (PM Edition)
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The Party Everywhere
Pacific Views —
All over the country, all over the world, people are celebrating. Here in Philadelphia, there were scattered honks and cheers as late as 1am out in West Philly, which is pretty far from the celebration at City Hall.
Sadly, there were a lot of ballot initiative losses for the LGBT community, and some of the congressional races that went the wrong way provided another bitter note. Also, pundits are spinning like mad to explain why nothing about this election, just like nothing about the 2006 election, disproved their conventional operating ...
Video from D.C.'s spontaneous rally in front of the White House last night
AMERICAblog News| A great nation deserves the truth —
I took some video of the spontaneous rally that erupted in D.C. last night after Obama's victory was declared. D.C. is not a spontaneous town, which made this even more fun. There was a lot of pent up energy unleashed by a lot of very happy people. Read Kagro's post, "Dancing in the Streets," on DailyKos about how this happened all over the country. ...
Quote of the day
WTF Is It Now?!? —
... -- Kagro X, over at dKos.
Wednesday's Mini-Report
Political Animal —
... : "National exit polling shows 53 percent of of the voters considered the U.S. Supreme Court an 'important factor' in their vote Tuesday. Fifty-two percent of these voters supported Barack Obama, while 46 percent supported John McCain." * I'm not a historian, but when was the last time the results of a presidential election prompted spontaneous celebrations in cities across the country? * ...
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