The Results- OPEN THREAD DISCUSSION

The Obama campaign's competence astonished me. Not just the staying on course, but their skill at activism and mobilizing people convinced me deeply that people can step up and be part of a real participatory democracy. Now the change.gov site has got me even more convinced.  The work won't stop - there is plenty to be done!   I really believe we can all be part of it.

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My humble musical letter to President Obama:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f4bZw9FmXZ4Best,Hannah Friedman

My humble musical letter to President Obama:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f4bZw9FmXZ4Best,Hannah Friedman

Looks like i need to start packing, or figure out how to get my state to succeed from the union.

This is an amazing time for America!

Woohoo!  We did it!

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Dang, Jory, I thought I was hallucinating in the tequila way when I saw Sam on TV! Thanks for confirming that I had some grip on reality!

Sam and sobbing Jesse Jackson:

Sam and me:

Congratulations Obama! No matter who we voted for we have to admit this is history in the making right now. I have to admit this is so amazing and wonderful. So many people thought this would not have happend an african-american man being elected president. Times really have changed and we have come a long way. It gives me hope for my children's future and mine as well.

Christina

this was long and divisive and I'm very tired

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Is it wrong that I'm secretly very happy this Election Day is over? 

My emotions are mixed, both happy and sad for so many reasons.

Now we try to heal the wounds of this country. :)

BET just played this Donny Hathaway classic.

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My Makeup is gone.  All cried off.

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This is the music with which BET closed its election-night broadcast:

Kim
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Usually victory speeches are like big toasts/celebrations. Obama was strong but noticeably unecstatic. Let me amend that: more measured with is jubilation. He really pounded in what needs to happen. We now have the CHANCE for greatness. Very distinct.

What was Sam Perry doing there with the Rev. Jesse Jackson and Oprah? Did anyone else see that? Way to go Sam! Oh to have been a fly on the wall...

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What an awesome historic moment!  Whew whew!  :-)

That is about all I can muster up right now. 

- Maria

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A commentator at BET just said, "America was reborn today."

BET will be showing a special tomorrow night about the First Black President. 

Still no coherent words. I promise to have them tomorrow.

 Now they are showing a slide show of images from Pres. elect Obama's life, 

Stunned.

Kim
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"And while she's no longer with us, I know my grandmother's watching. To my sister Maya, my sister Ama,

To my campaign manager David Plum, who built the best political campaign I think in the history of the United States of America. To my chief strategist David Axelrod. To the best campaign team ever assembled in the history of American politics.

I will never forget who this victory truly belongs to. It belongs to you. I was never the likeliest candidate for this office. Our campaign was not hatched in the halls of Congress. It was in the backyards of Des Moines...working people who dug into their pockets to give $5, $10.

"For the millions of Americans who organized...who proved that more than 200 years later, a government by the people, of the people and for the people has not perished from the earth."

You didn't do this just to win an election. We know that [we're facing] the two wars, a planet in peril, the worst financial crisis in history...[talks about soldiers waking up on the other side of the earth]...we may not get there in one year or even in one term but I know we will get there.

This victory alone is not the change we seek. It is the opportunity to make that change. . . . So let us summon a new spirit. Of patriotism. Of responsibility. And to look not only after ourselves, but each other. In this country we rise or fall as one nation. Let's remember it was a man from this state who first carried the Republican banner to the White House.

While the Democratic Party has won a victory, let us carry it with humility.

To those Americans whose support I have yet to earn. I hear you...I will be your president too.

To those who would tear the world down, we will defeat you. To those who seek peace and security, we support you.

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For wonderful emoting and coverage - to fellow Obama supporters - MAZEL TOV!

I cried, and am crying again - what this represents is barely something I can articulate.  But if nothing else, it's a beginning.  I'll take it.

All sleep well, stay safe and look forward to the new corner we'll be turning. 

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"If there is anyone out there who still doubts that America is a place where all things are possible, who still wonders if the dream of our founders is alive in our time, who still wonders at the power of Democracy, tonight is your answer."

"Americans who sent a message to the world, that we have never been just a collection of states, of red states and blue states, we are and always have been the United States."

"It's been a long time coming. But tonight, because of what we did on this day at this election on this defining moment, change has come to America."

"A little bit earlier this evening I received an extraordinarily gracious call from Sen. McCain. He fought long and hard in this campaign. He has fought longer and harder for the country that he loves....I congratulate him. I congratulate Gov. Palin. And I look forward to working with him to renew this nation's progress in the months ahead."

Clapping and cheers

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But I don't know that that could have captured it...

Kim
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How can we adequately celebrate. This is simply inspiring!!

I smiled as I cast my vote this morning, wrote about it, blogged the results.  Now I have no words. 

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As I was voting I remembered my great-grandmother Charlotte. She was 10 years old when Lincoln freed the slaves. She was a Republican or to be more exact, she was with Mr. Lincoln party.

She would not have believed this day could have happened. I understood this place in history and this time. I still need to work on the concept that I have a President. I can stop saying "Occupant."

I'm just overwhelmed.

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Washoe County?

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To record your face after that conversation for your own grandchildren?

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:-)

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I'm not sure I understand what you mean.

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to not despair of present difficulties, but to believe always in the promise of Americans...we never hide from history, we make history."

This was one of the more gracious concession speeches I've ever heard, including his shushing of people who booed at the mention of President-elect Obama.

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I just spoke to my 76-year-old father, an Army veteran who was raised by his sharecropper parents and slave grandparents. 

God bless America.

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I really wish he would have been this way all along. I kinda like the guy talking right now.

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is on CNN

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BET reporter:

"It has been an honor to cover this election."

Rapper David Banner is talking about his grandmother.

McCain is gracious in conceding.

Kim
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is prepared to organize these millions of voters to move forward and WORK on making a difference in this country. Watching these acres of people amassed in Chicago, in New York, in Atlanta, you name it, this is the ONLY way to improve savings by Americans, to reduce energy consumption, to improve health care -- all the much less sexy, so much more important items that we must achieve as a nation.

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My 94 year old grandmother just called my 21 year old niece to say how wonderful it is that her first presidential vote was for history.

The champagne and tears are both flowing at my house.

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I think Juan Williams is absolutely right.  This has got to be one of the best run presidential campaigns ever.  They made almost no missteps and kept to their message through thick and thin...and it worked.

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"The idea of America has been that we are a meritocracy. The idea of our old stable strong democracy has always been built on a moral house of cards. Slaves built The White House.

"To have a moment that we can put alongside our Emancipation Proclamation...so that we can speak to the rest of the world with a clearer voice, it's sort of worth crying about."

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This has got to be one of the most exciting moments in my life.  My late grandmother would be so shocked, but at the same time so proud.

Wow!!!

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It's real. President Obama.

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I guess Bill Bennett is trying to redeem his earlier ass-hattery, but I will grant him that is a lovely statement.

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"...no matter what you think of his politics...where you can find a representative of a people so oppressed, elected as president.

"This is America at its grandest. What it says about this country, and those little girls in The Rose Garden for years to come."

"It's stunning."

"I'm amazed that he beat the Clinton machine. My sense is that this is an extraordinarily run campaign. This may be the cover of the history books."

~ Juan Williams, Fox News contributor

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Toure at BET is rhapsodic right now. He is talking about q 105 year old black woman who voted today whose parents knew what slavery was. People are struggling to articulate their feelings.

Kim
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 Congratulation!  PRESIDENT OBAMA! I'm so happy!

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CNN, MSNBC, Fox...

wow

wow
wow

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44th president, first African-American

That quote is from a 40something couple dancing their fannies off in Chicago.

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Barack Obama has been elected President of the United States.

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Obama won Virginia (my home state) - YAY!

 It's projected that he is the President elect - YAY!!!!

-Kimberly/Mom in the City 

And if you add California's 55 to the current 220, that's the show folks!

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First Democrat since 1964.

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Whoa, this is new!

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