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A lot of history was made tonight.  Congratulations to everyone who participated in making it happen.

UPDATE: Email from Obama central:

I’m about to head to Grant Park to talk to everyone gathered there, but I wanted to write to you first.

We just made history.

And I don’t want you to forget how we did it.

You made history every single day during this campaign — every day you knocked on doors, made a donation, or talked to your family, friends, and neighbors about why you believe it’s time for change.

I want to thank all of you who gave your time, talent, and passion to this campaign.

We have a lot of work to do to get our country back on track, and I’ll be in touch soon about what comes next.

But I want to be very clear about one thing…

All of this happened because of you.

Thank you,

Barack

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  2. And I’m not asking to be an asshole, I just honestly don’t know much about him.  Is he progressive, moderate, liberal…I figure I should have some clue what our next guv is going to be like.

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    p>In any event, I’m glad to have lived to see the election of a black president.  

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    p>Vae victus.

  4. only 5% in, but not looking good. note: san fran isn’t in at all… and that’s gotta be going 9-1 against prop 8… so it WILL look better as the night goes on… but it’s never good to have 5% in and be down 20. If prop 8 passes tonight, my night will be quite sadly ruined.  

    • are passing.  i am having a hard time reconciling my joy at obama being elected with my anger at the fact that he is partly responsible for the passage of these amendments.

      • at not having to wait 30 years to see success in these areas is 1) prop 8 failing and 2) DOMA being stripped from the books, opening the chains of common sense.  

      • We get it – you don’t like that he’s not all the way there on marriage.  As I recall he came out very clearly against Prop. 8 in CA, so presumably he would be against similar measures in other states.  To be honest, I’m starting to think he IS OK with marriage equality, but is strangely just not willing to admit it yet.  After all, the status quo in CA before tonight was that same-sex marriage was legal.  When you oppose a law you are implicitly endorsing the status quo.  Ergo, Obama supported marriage equality in CA.  Now that the election is passed and we no longer have to worry about it costing the election you have a clearer shot to try to convince him to lead on this issue.  I would encourage you to take that shot.

        • Presidential leadership is not going to make a dent on what by night’s end may be part of the California constitution. Get it? Beyond the reach of the CA legislature and courts means beyond the reach of someone’s awesome speechmaking abilities. His blowout victory – electoral college-wise, anyway – tells me that he could have spared some of his margin on more forceful statements against Prop 8 and, as might have befit a leader, for the gay marriage that we are all so convinced is actually quite in favor of. (You may “recall” him coming out “very clearly against Prop 8,” but either we have very different definitions of “very” and/or “clearly,” or you’re just wrong.) Having foresworn such statements, I’m afraid that he would indeed be partly responsible for Prop 8’s passage.

          • … for reasons to blame Obama is just wrong.  Knock. That. Shit. Off.

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            p>The only polls that matter (from CNN):

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            p>Calif pres race:  Obama 61%  McCain 37% (Almost 9.6 Million votes so far)

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            p>Calif prop 8:  YES  52%   NO  48%   (same amount of votes)

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            p>Thats a difference of about 10% of people voted FOR prop 8 (5,019,930 with 92% of precincts reporting) as voted FOR Obama (5,982,723 w/ same precints reporting).  Total votes AGAINST are greater than the total votes FOR McCain.

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            p>What does that tell me.  That this was local issue, hotly contested that was decided upon locally.   Obama couldn’t have done anything either way…

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            p>You want to blame somebody you go ahead and blame the Bush presidency for making this a HUGE issue in 2004 AND you can blame those sorry souls who mistake (or manipulate) electoral mood swings for legitimate democracy: I am, more than ever, opposed to ballot initiatives and propositions.

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            p>They are nothing but lazy slogans and the cheapest available cynicism.

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