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The Rude Pundit — Election Day: Nine Ways Republicans Will Try to Make Obama's Victory Illegitimate (You Don't Get to Read This Until You've Fucking Voted): This time around, the machines were working at the Rude Pundit's precinct. The first thing he did after pushing the magical buttons was to call the Rude Brother and say, "I just voted for a black guy for president. How crazy is that?" It's not, of course, that it's a leap of beliefs for the Rude Pundit. It's having the opportunity. And, totally non-cynically, that was just goddamn cool. The fact that Obama's gonna win? Well, let's not blow our loads yet. Despite the fact that George W. ...
OBAMA WINS PRESIDENCY, NETWORKS SAY
TPM Election Central —
... Presidential race.
Just before, CNN and Fox had called Virginia for Obama. With the Kerry states, that puts Obama at 297 Electoral College votes.
Indiana and North Carolina are dead heats, and Obama is ahead in Florida.
Huge. Obama has unleashed something extraordinary, and the potential is clearly there for an enduring Dem majority and a period of unchallenged Democratic dominance. Just indescribable.
Late Update: The Times's wrap-up is here. The Washington Post's is here. Politico's is here. ...
Not Bush Wins Big
N/A —
Not Bush rocks and rolls the political world. And Bush? Let’s not forget Bush.
Remember what eight years of Republican rule has wrought: missing weapons of mass destruction, the promises we’d be greeted as liberators, Jessica Lynch, torture, the disintegration of Afghanistan. Also: Enron, WorldCom, Bear Stearns, AIG, Fannie and Freddie, GM, Chrysler, Social Security privatization, the $700 billion bailout. Also: Brownie, John Ashcroft covering up that bare-breasted statue at the Justice Department, ...
Yes we can. Yes we can.
the talking dog —
... The United States of America has defied the expectations of many, defied many of its own imperfections, and while it has hardly exorcized its centuries of racial-based demons, it did become the first First World country to elect a man of color to its highest office, as Barack Obama was elected the 44th President of the United States, in a resounding electoral victory . Spontaneous celebrations are afoot here in Brooklyn, as well as the organized celebration in Grant Park, where three weeks ago, I began and finished the Chicago Marathon. I learned much of the happy news while ...
First Drafts Of History
The Atlantic Politics Channel —
The AP: 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. The
son of a black father from Kenya and a white mother from Kansas, the
Democratic senator from Illinois sealed his historic triumph by
defeating Republican Sen. John McCain in a string of wins in
hard-fought battleground states - Ohio, Florida, Virginia and Iowa The New York Times Barack Hussein Obama was elected the 44th president of the United
States on Tuesday, sweeping away the last racial barrier in American
politics with ease as the country chose him as ...
Live Blogging Election Night
The Caucus —
Wrapup As the extraordinary spectacle of the first African-American winning the presidency was taking place on stage, something extraordinary was taking place offstage: Mr. Obama was racking up a stunning 338 electoral votes, at least so far. Mr. McCain was left with 156. Race, it seemed, had melted away as an issue. Something else was happening too. While the whole world was standing back in amazement that America had elected its first black president, Mr. Obama asked not to be seen as a black man. As in his acceptance speech at the Democratic convention in Denver, he did not mention the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. by name. Yes, he told a gripping story. But it was not ...
We won
The Reaction —
By Mustang Bobby Barack Obama is going to be the next President of the United States. We won. I don't mean just the Democrats or the people who voted for him. I mean all of us. Every man, woman and child, no matter what color their skin, no matter their ancestry, no matter their faith or sexual orientation or anything that does not become them by choice has won something tonight. The change that has been wrought tonight means that nothing other than what Martin Luther King Jr said in 1963 -- the content of a person's character -- matters. Or should it. We have a lot of work to do. But now we can do it ...
Change
Taegan Goddard's Political Wire —
Los Angeles Times: "Barack Obama, the son of a father from Kenya and a white mother from
Kansas, was elected the nation's 44th president Tuesday, breaking the
ultimate racial barrier to become the first African American to claim
the country's highest office."
"A nation founded by slave owners and seared by civil war and
generations of racial strife delivered a smashing electoral college
victory to the 47-year-old first-term senator from Illinois, who forged
a broad, multiracial, multiethnic coalition. His victory was a leap in
the march toward equality: When Obama was born, people with his skin
color could not even vote in parts of America, and many were killed for
trying." New York Times: ...
Voting in the Clouds
The Agonist - thoughtful, global, timely —
This is the lead image currently online at the NYT. I love how this shot, voters at Woodland Elementary, perfectly serves as a metaphor for the Obama campaign. Here we see six older voters in multicultural technicolor mirror the stylized picket fence painted on the wall. A group of small children run across the foreground of the mural. They are somewhat obscured behind the voting stations. This is not their day after all. They play while we participate in democracy. Though they play in the background they are in the forefront of our thoughts. We can imagine what the children are running towards. They are running towards the ...
