Election Gloating

[tongodeon]

Four years ago I wrote a guide for political gloaters. "Resist the urge to simply run around shouting "victory" - not only is it undignified, but it misses the real point of emphasizing all the stuff 'your team' will get to do." So let me do a little gloating, not about the victory itself, but what that victory entails.

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[mezdeathhead]

Part of me is ashamed that he didn't win the popular vote by double digits in times like these, and part of me is amazed that he even made it out of the primary.

I've been trying to find a way to word that.

Although I agree with you, I am also cheering. Because I feel like we have a chance now, and that's more than I've ever felt.

[tongodeon]

Know what's fucking amazing? Rookie first-year Senator with no war chest who Intrade had at less than ten-to-one odds came out of nowhere to beat Clinton's team, then Rove's team. That is one of the biggest goddamn astonishing "come-from-behind" victories in a very, very long time.

[mezdeathhead]

And I hate to sound like a unicorn-rider, but it was really because of the people that he was able to do that. It's almost like we'll have a president that works for us, or something!

[occlupanid]

i think this is a time for everybody to ride unicorns! ( On an iconic note, i want to make a katamari election map! Let's roll'em up to make a single star in the sky! )

[mezdeathhead]

It must be done!

[mezdeathhead]

This one? Because I unfortunately just deleted the katamari one. Although I'm sure that one would be easy to find.

[mononeuron]

> Rookie first-year Senator

With perhaps 10,000 experience-years of endorsements.

More intersting question, after the fact: What'll be the sum-total of experience-years on The Uppity One's [dm] senior team? And what'll be the party distribution of the experience, by department?

[ie. Gates is staying in defense, but some left-leaning Summers guy's gonna head treasury. Is that about 50-60 experience-years, evenly split between the two parties.]

> with no war chest

Last I read of contributions, Obama's team raised about $150 million of contributions in each of September and October. Mostly, though not exclusively, from modest, internet-based donations.

For my part, that's enormously encouraging as a means of blunting the excessive influence of corporate-money-wielding-lobbyists.

For our next trick, shall we break the revolving door between high-policy-making and boards-of-regulated-companies?