BBC: World reacts to Obama win

BBC: Celebrity reaction to Obama win

BBC: US crowds celebrate Obama win

NY Times: And Then They Wept: "History will record this as the night the souls of black folk, living and dead, wept -- and laughed, screamed and danced -- 400 years of pent up emotion."

MSNBC: Around world, Obama victory sparks cheers: "Election is ( Read more... )

"After the ecstasy, the laundry." -- Zen koan

I know we did not get all the victories we wanted. I know there is a hellacious amount of work to be done, and miles to go before we sleep.

Today, I am not yet ready to think about that. Today, I am still celebrating. We won, damn it. And it feels so very, very good.
I am preserving some pictorial ( Read more... )

Oh my fucking god...I am crying, seriously ( Read more... )

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I'm at the UU church in Exeter, where I have been making lots of phone calls and mostly leaving messages in support of Barack Obama, Jeanne Shaheen, and Carol Shea-Porter. I have also rescued Derek and Kate from being lost on their way to their canvassing turf. :-} What's more, I also set up a random member of this church, who just wanted to be ( Read more... )

It's election day! Our long national torture is near an end. :-}

Trowa called me from the line at our polling place. It's three blocks long already. Makes me glad I voted last week, I tell you what.

So now Aries is here, and Derek, and my coworker is on her way to the house right now, and we will be off to New Hampshire to GOTV! I am psyched! ( Read more... )

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Our fundraising party is over, and we raised $625.25 for the Peninsula Young Demcrats' trip to Nevada to GOTV on election day!

Huge thanks to the following folks for donating and/or purchasing goods and services:

• achinhibitor
• ariesd
• bedfull_o_books
• buxom_bey
• chhotii