US Election

[jack]

Ironically, I think this is the first political election where I actually woke up needing to go and find what happened. I am actually remarkably relieved, I could just imagine waking up to lots of fraud and legal challenges (and obviously it's tough to find out in five min what the nuances are.)

But Fox News announced Obama, FiveThirtyEight.com announced Obama, John McCain announced Obama. Congratulations. I regret not considering having someone here to have a toast with.

And regardless of what you think, that's another notable point in history. (Of course, America will have to wait to see how it goes, but enough things about the last eight years worried me, that I really hope some good things happen.)

(I still don't know about the Senate elections. "Lots" of seats for Democrats, but a filibuster-proof majority is in not in the bag, though hopefully that had no reason to matter. Nor about California ban on gay marriage. The second is terrifying: if California starts reversing backward now, it'll crash into the western seaboard, and that place doesn't need more tectonic activity.)

Comments

[liv]

Wow, you were more impatient than me, I got up at a normal time and got the results from my friends page :-) But when I did find out, I wanted to celebrate with you as well as the actual Americans.

[cornute.livejournal.com]

accept no artificial Americans. :)

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

*hugs* I went back to bed again afterwards, but I couldn't sleep when I woke up. I nearly went straight for my friends-page, correctly predicting it would be an uplifting collection of "Yay, Obama" posts throughout the night, but I wanted to find out something fairly certain, so I went straight to fivethirtyeight.com

I wanted to celebrate with you as well as the actual Americans.

Aw *hugs*

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

And I didn't expect my post to be very coherent, but did my best to at least try to mention the core facts, for the benefit of someone waking up and seeing a lot of "wooo" posts and not being sure what happened :)

[deborah_c]

Proposition 8 in California is currently 51.8% "yes" (i.e. ban and revoke gay marriages) :-(

[http://users.livejournal.com/vitriol_/]

I didn't get up early, but then I didn't go to bed until 3:30 (when it became clear that (1) Obama would definitely win, and (2) they wouldn't actually call it until the California polls closed).