This picture of Obama and Rahm Emanuel is just so...oh, my gosh, it is Matt Santos and Josh Lyman, and I can't handle so much love.

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OH GOD WHY AM I AWAKE.

Oh, right, because the goal is to get to the Mall by 8:30am to stand around in the cold for 4 hours because this, my friends, THIS IS SPARTA INAUGURATION.

This had so better be worth it, because I am so not a morning person.

ETA: And fail. I spent two hours trying to get anywhere near the Mall, but all the planned ( Read more... )

Yes, we did.The District of Columbia went 95% for Obama. There's a party on the streets citywide. An impromptu rally struck up at 14th and U several hours ago; it's still going strong, thousands of people of every imaginable demographic thronging the intersection, chanting and dancing and shrieking. Every passing car is blaring its horn -- this has ( Read more... )

I am seriously in imminent danger of losing my shit here. SO SOON WE WILL KNOW THINGS. SO SOON.

At least I called in sick to work today and phonebanked for five hours instead.

Here we go.


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Back from the Obama rally -- his final rally before the election. I...don't have the words. That was amazing. They told us we were about 100,000 strong, standing in a vast, misty field in the middle of Virginia, straining on tiptoe to see the figure at the podium, his voice over the speakers rolling across us in waves...wow. And afterwards, heading ( Read more... )

I'm going to Obama's final rally in Virginia tonight.

OMGWTFSQUEE.

Okay, I have no idea what this memorial dinner thing was about, but it's apparently the Barack Obama Comedy Hour or something, and it is AMAZING:

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Chicago Tribune endorses Barack Obama for President.Now, I realize that some of you may see "Chicago" and "Obama" and think, well, OBVIOUSLY, but no. The Trib is one of the most staunchly Republican papers in the country. They have never -- literally, NEVER -- endorsed the Democratic nominee for President. Not once in the long history of the ( Read more... )