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      CommentAuthorSkyler
    • CommentTimeNov 4th 2008
     
    YES WE DID.
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      CommentAuthorVe.
    • CommentTimeNov 4th 2008
     
    :happy::happy::happy::happy::happy::happy::happy::happy::happy:
    :happy::happy::happy::happy::happy::happy::happy::happy::happy:
    :happy::happy::happy::happy::happy::happy::happy::happy::happy:
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      CommentAuthorSkyler
    • CommentTimeNov 4th 2008
     
    I can't even begin to describe how insanely excited I am! :happy:
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      CommentAuthorVe.
    • CommentTimeNov 4th 2008
     
    I AM SO WITH YA' ON THAT!
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      CommentAuthorQ
    • CommentTimeNov 4th 2008
     
    Wish y'all the best :D
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      CommentAuthorSkyler
    • CommentTimeNov 4th 2008
     
    monumental... is what this is
    • CommentAuthorLotus
    • CommentTimeNov 4th 2008
     
    amazing and well don't know what to say but YAAAAYYYYYYY!!!!
    ~does the happy dance~

    Almost makes it worthwhile coming back to America ;)
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      CommentAuthorflak
    • CommentTimeNov 4th 2008
     
    Still don't believe it. I think it'll take until morning to really sink in.

    Looking forward to the next four years. :D
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      CommentAuthorflak
    • CommentTimeNov 5th 2008
     
    As always, The Onion has come through. :D

    Black Man Given Nation's Worst Job

    Also, here's what impressed me the most - Obama's tech policy. I'm very much looking forward to this.



    Decades ago, our innovations in science brought us to the moon. Maybe pocket protectors will make a comeback. :p
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      CommentAuthorzippie
    • CommentTimeNov 5th 2008
     
    He won, he won, he won!

    YAY!

    ~is well impressed and happy!
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    that makes 2.2% of all american presidents black
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      CommentAuthorbe-jot
    • CommentTimeNov 5th 2008
     
    not to rain on your parade, but isn't it still possible that the mccain fries can still win? like it has been previously when your beloved george w. has won regardless of the people's vote?
    i hope i'm wrong and my words turn to shit though :)
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      CommentAuthorflak
    • CommentTimeNov 5th 2008
     
    I'm fairly sure McCain conceded, which means that he's not going to pursue it in court. I did read that he previously had a lawsuit to count late-arriving military ballots, but with such a landslide here, it's probably not worth it.
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      CommentAuthornicko
    • CommentTimeNov 5th 2008
     
    well done America. It's the best result I'm sure
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      CommentAuthorbe-jot
    • CommentTimeNov 5th 2008
     
    ok, my bad - your system is more complicated than i can comprehend, obviously :)
    go obama!
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      CommentAuthorflak
    • CommentTimeNov 5th 2008
     
    No, it was a good question - the 2000 election was dragged out for weeks in the courts. ;)
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    but that was because the vote was soooo tight a few votes in florida swung the election away from the popular vote and into the hands of the electoral college

    its kinda complicated but also a little out of date - conceived as coping with slow transmittal of results and the posibilty the popular vote would be dominated by the bigger states (though the all or nothing status within big states still seems to make this happen)

    were the electoral college to remain and instead more states were like (maine?) and proportionately slit their votes - it might make a little more sense to people not used to the system, but the system has only broke twice so may as well leave it as it is
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      CommentAuthorchris
    • CommentTimeNov 5th 2008
     
    c-c-c-combo breaker!
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      CommentAuthorchris
    • CommentTimeNov 5th 2008
     
    also, i lol'd at this -


    elmnt's cafe press
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      CommentAuthormick
    • CommentTimeNov 5th 2008 edited
     
    congrats to your president-elect.

    :)

    the USians around here are mostly ecstatic. i'm looking forward to seeing the mess made by your current administration's policies begin to get cleaned up. i'm going to thoroughly enjoy watching our current government switch from Bush's rightwing security agenda to Obama's economic agenda.

    the world is going to watch for real change; i think y'all can do it.


    x
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      CommentAuthorchris
    • CommentTimeNov 5th 2008
     
    i've little doubt it will be more of the same.
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      CommentAuthorchris
    • CommentTimeNov 5th 2008
     
    but a little more 'feel good'.
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    ~waiting for the headline "US missile strikes northern pakistan" as a fitting first act by the new prince of peace hope and change
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      CommentAuthorflak
    • CommentTimeNov 5th 2008
     
    I was actually reading that Pakistan might be Bush's last act within office - as Bush Sr. attacked Somalia immediately before handing over the Presidency to Clinton (or so I read - I was too young at the time).
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      CommentAuthormichael
    • CommentTimeNov 5th 2008
     
    congrats americans! .. and bye sarah :)
    • CommentAuthorBiff
    • CommentTimeNov 5th 2008
     
    You know how I knew when the candidates were lying about things during the election cycle? (yes, even Obama)

    Their lips were moving. Hold your candidate to the promises he's made. The DNC is already lowering expectations...
    • CommentAuthorsinar
    • CommentTimeNov 5th 2008
     
    Same story, just a different puppet on stage. I'll believe in change when it happens.
    As Dorothy put it ... "Somewhere over the Rainbow...."
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      CommentAuthorflak
    • CommentTimeNov 5th 2008 edited
     
    Luckily, you can still see the policies touted during the campaign - here's Obama's. I grabbed the technology PDF last September and plan to hold him to his word.

    Beyond that, I think it's going to be very difficult not to have some people be letdown - we're talking about a massive amount of voters, all with different ideas on how to do things. Obama voted to make the Patriot Act permanent, and he voted for a very screwy FISA bill...despite that, I have hope for his overall plan.
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      CommentAuthormeska
    • CommentTimeNov 5th 2008
     
    Amazing.
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      CommentAuthorbull
    • CommentTimeNov 5th 2008
     
    Cautiously optimistic here - this wasn't a revolution, it was an election.

    the two towns in which I live and work are 'red' in a sea of blue........ i'll refrain from being smug - at least for now.


    It is, for me at least, a happy responsibility to participate.

    the first and last political post I make
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      CommentAuthormick
    • CommentTimeNov 5th 2008
     
    Biff said... Hold your candidate to the promises he's made.


    i can't agree more.... for everyone everywhere.

    i'm also dismayed at how few people actually KNOW what their candidate's platform is.
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    i expect his popularity to last as long as a celebrity marriage
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      CommentAuthorbaseisdead
    • CommentTimeNov 5th 2008
     
    IF it does they could just get Jack Bauer to save him again.
    • CommentAuthormondo
    • CommentTimeNov 5th 2008
     
    heh...yeah, with all the black presidents appearing onscreen in recent years I was half expecting a fleet of spacecraft to descend when he referred to "a planet in peril" during his speech..
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    all the black presidents in multiple movies - played by 1 or 2 actors

    its been like sidney poitier all over again
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      CommentAuthorchicken
    • CommentTimeNov 5th 2008
     
    Biff said...You know how I knew when the candidates were lying about things during the election cycle? (yes, even Obama)

    Their lips were moving. Hold your candidate to the promises he's made. The DNC is already lowering expectations...
    no way!!!.... you mean politicians are lying arseholes!!???! Even if they're not caucasian? I'm deeply shocked :)
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      CommentAuthorechoes
    • CommentTimeNov 5th 2008
     
    Im happy!
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      CommentAuthorbe-jot
    • CommentTimeNov 5th 2008 edited
     

    couldn't resist :D
    • CommentAuthorLotus
    • CommentTimeNov 5th 2008
     
    Well came in to work today and everyone is depressed and I even over heard someone saying "But he isn't even American how can he win, bastard refuses to support our country as he won't salute the flag and wants "in god we trust" taken off our money...not to mention his middle name is Saddam"

    lol

    Why oh why do I live in the boonies?
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      CommentAuthornimmot
    • CommentTimeNov 5th 2008
     
    i'm super excited as well but i don't envy the task ahead. whoever won has to clean the previous moron and his adminstration's mess. it is historic and i feel proud to have taken a part and glad that i "think" my vote counted.

    now, if californians can just get with the new millennium and realize that church and state should remain separate. :depressed:
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    Congratulations.
    It's nice to see people are happy, and optimistic, if still a little cautious.

    Full of optimism here too. I stayed up until about half 3 watching the results come in then fell asleep. Luckily, since I was at work at 8.

    But really good result I think. And a definate change in my eyes. I don't think I remember a Democratic government in America, or at least not when I was old enough to care. :tongue:
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      CommentAuthorbaseisdead
    • CommentTimeNov 5th 2008
     
    You blocked out the clinton years?
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      CommentAuthormick
    • CommentTimeNov 5th 2008 edited
     
    heh... she'd have been 9 or 10 when Bush was elected.

    ....................


    i'm very unhappy to read that:

    Prop 8 in CA: the people of California actually approved the gay marriage ban.

    Amendment 2 in FL: Passed. yet another gay marriage ban.

    Prop 102 in AZ: Passed. "only a union of one man and one woman shall be valid or recognized as a marriage in this state".

    Act 1 in AS: Passed. now gay couples are unable to adopt or foster-parent children.

    Amendment 46 in CO: --is neck-and-neck-- with the "yes" side slightly ahead . it would ban programs that work to eliminate the gaps between white dudes and everyone else.

    :(
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      CommentAuthorflak
    • CommentTimeNov 5th 2008
     
    Biff said...Hold your candidate to the promises he's made.


    For that matter, I hope everyone does this. It's our responsibility as citizens to make sure he's doing what he said he'd do.
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      CommentAuthorbaseisdead
    • CommentTimeNov 5th 2008
     
    I was 9 or 10 when Margaret Thatcher was in power and I remember her very well and knew what party she stood for.
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    flak said...
    Biff said...Hold your candidate to the promises he's made.


    For that matter, I hope everyone does this. It's our responsibility as citizens to make sure he's doing what he said he'd do.


    Agreed. do what the republicians never did to bush.

    At the same time obamas going to extend his hand across the isle so this time WILL NOT be more of the same. This is a stain the republicians are going to have a hard time cleaning up or pretending never happened. LOL

    Regardless i'm happy obamas gonna make it in and there was a record turn out.

    The next few years will be interesting as Obama gets stuck with the biggest mess in us history.

    But at least nobody is screaming assassination. I'm sick of hearing that shit.
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      CommentAuthorPants
    • CommentTimeNov 5th 2008
     
    mick said...Prop 8 in CA: the people of California actually approved the gay marriage ban.


    That surprised me quite a bit. I thought us Californians we're smarter than that. I will never understand how Frank and Joe getting married effects anyone but Frank and Joe. :depressed:
    • CommentAuthorBiff
    • CommentTimeNov 5th 2008
     
    The point you're missing is the democrats in the House and Senate were complicit in many if not all of the decisions made over the last eight years.

    Yes, it's a mess. It's a stain on both parties.

    Obama's made an epic amount of promises, more than any election I remember in 20 years. We'll see.
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    baseisdead said...I was 9 or 10 when Margaret Thatcher was in power and I remember her very well and knew what party she stood for.


    I was born in '89

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