There isn't a whole lot to say beyond that. I am ... wow. What an amazing night. What a stressful night! Watching Presidential election results come in should count as aerobic exercise
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Squee! I told myself I wasn't going to look at any election news until tomorrow morning (remembering how much fun 2004 was :P), but I couldn't resist and just about fainted when I saw Obama's number go past 270. :D
I know! I was completely prepared to go to bed with most of the battleground states "too close to call" and not sleeping well and waking up to a snafu ... When the commentators said that they were coming back with updates at 11, I figured that vote counts were in for one of the battleground states. When they put a notice up that Obama had been elected 44th President of the U.S., Bobby and I both stared at it for about five seconds without saying anything. I kept waiting for it to go away with an, "Oooops, that was a technical difficulty ..." but it didn't go away. It took a moment for the news to sink in, since I was not expecting anything like it so early.
2000 will always be my nightmare election. I remember sitting in Bobby's room--we still lived with our parents--watching each state come in and celebrating when Gore won Florida and so "won" ... then it was retracted. I remember watching all that like it was yesterday. I'm glad my third Presidential election turned out better than my first and second! :)
(nod) I seriously think both of them were being genuine when they spoke well of each other. :) I think they should have parties & have dance offs together! XD
Were you watching 11 news when the "44th president" thing showed up? Because i thought it was an "oops," too, that they were testing images or something & accidentally put it up, because it was so early. I didn't flail or anything because mother was right there (i my cynical reputation to keep & stuff, yknow), but i was definitely in amazement. :}
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2000 will always be my nightmare election. I remember sitting in Bobby's room--we still lived with our parents--watching each state come in and celebrating when Gore won Florida and so "won" ... then it was retracted. I remember watching all that like it was yesterday. I'm glad my third Presidential election turned out better than my first and second! :)
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And he was so crazy gracious!
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He's such a wonderful speaker. I thought his speech was great (and, actually, McCain's was great too).
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Were you watching 11 news when the "44th president" thing showed up? Because i thought it was an "oops," too, that they were testing images or something & accidentally put it up, because it was so early. I didn't flail or anything because mother was right there (i my cynical reputation to keep & stuff, yknow), but i was definitely in amazement. :}
(Tiara Tango for the occasion. ;D)
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