John McCain, evidently, is not accepting his defeat gracefully:
The meeting in the Capitol’s Strom Thurmond Room on March 11 was a Republican effort led by Sens. McCain of Arizona, John Thune of South Dakota, and Mel Martinez of Florida to reach out to Hispanics. But two people who attended the session say they were taken [...]
It’s 3:30 in the morning, and I’m drinking coffee before I head down to the Lincoln Memorial. In approximately eight hours, Barack Obama will take the oath of office and America will have our first black president. It is nearly impossible not to feel a thrill as I write those words. How fitting and how [...]
I missed this tidbit about the 2008 elections, but it’s pretty cool:
The presidential election was not the only historic political moment last week: In New Hampshire, voters elected 13 women — out of 24 total members — to the state Senate, making it the country’s first state legislative body with more women than men.
That is [...]
By a vote of 137 to 122, the House Democratic Conference elected Henry Waxman the chair of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, replacing John Dingell. This is great news. Dingell, from Detroit, is a good friend to the automakers. He’s spent his chairmanship mostly trying to prevent any significant energy or climate change legislation [...]
The AP is calling North Carolina for Barack Obama, adding it to the extensive list of swing states that swung blue, and becoming one more example of our brand new map. NBC has done so as well. This is the first time in 8 election cycles they’ve gone blue. President-Elect Barack Obama has now garnered [...]
As we all try to fully comprehend the momentous, life-changing event that we’re going through, it’s comforting to know that some things will stay the same. Chocolate is still delicious, warm socks still feel good, and Silvio Berlusconi can still provide comic relief.
Nov. 6 (Bloomberg) — Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi today praised Barack Obama, [...]
Amazing. I can hardly put into words how poignant, inspiring, and tremendously joyous last night was. I still feel close to tears. As one friend over last night put it, this is what it’s all about:
Today’s the day. I’m getting ready to go to my first canvas shift. I didn’t get home from Obama’s last rally until 2am. Traffic was horrible because there were an estimated 90,000-100,000 people there. This election has brought about a kind of excitement I’ve never seen, and shame on everyone who says that finally having [...]
Catching up on some reading, I noticed Skippy ruminating about the McCain camp’s unbridled/unhinged optimism heading into Tuesday. He goes on to quote John Dickerson over at Slate, dutifully reporting the uptick of that thing called, um, Hope on the Straight Talk Uncomfortable, Dangerous Local Express:
mcinturff released a memo yesterday that outlined his case for [...]
I was sitting in my apartment in Communist Country, just outside of Real Virginia , talking to my liberal elitist husband eating a salad made from arugula and other vegetables purchased at Whole Foods.* And we are 100% sure that in the five years we’ve lived together we have not spent, combined, $150,000 on clothes [...]
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