Letterman's Election Night Recap.
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Shocker! Sarah Palin Didn't Know Easy Stuff
She thought Africa was a country, and didn't know the three North American nations. No, seriously. She didn't.
New Huffington Post Column
At Long Last, It's Beginning To Feel Like America Enjoy and comment.
The White Vote
Exit polling from the NY Times: • Nationally, five percent MORE white people voted for President-elect Obama than voted for Senator Kerry. • +7 in the rural vote for the president-elect over Kerry. •...
A Long, Long Road
One of my favorite scenes from the brilliant HBO mini-series John Adams. And in 76 days, President-elect and Mrs. Obama will, as President Bush said today, "step through the doors of the White House."
Pettiness and Partisanship
Earlier today, Sarah Palin said she'd work to fight pettiness and partisanship. Weird of her to say, considering this item from the new issue of Newsweek: -- Palin launched her attack on Obama's...
Malik Obama
Photo: Matt Dunham / AP The president-elect's half-brother Malik celebrates in Kolego, Kenya.
Chief of Staff
Clearly, the choice of Rahm Emanuel as White House Chief of Staff indicates that the president-elect is going to be pushing a very aggressive legislative agenda, and Emanuel will be the enforcer ...
Funny
Palin is on the cable vowing to end "the pettiness and excessive partisanship." Does that mean she's going to leave politics?
Georgia
Kos: Georgia: Saxby Chambliss (R) leads Jim Martin (D) 50-46. However, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports that over 600,000 early votes have not been counted. Martin led handily in early...
WTF?
Tom Brokaw: Brokaw on Morning Joe cited as evidence for the center-right thesis the idea that a majority of land area in the United States, if you measure it on the county level, voted for McCain...
The Moment
I was about to go on with Buzz and Robb at WJFK so I was only able to half-pay attention to the coverage of this. But holy wow! And how great was it that Keith got to say the words? Adding...
Contrasts
I would argue that the 2004 election was the high water mark of the George W. Bush presidency. It reinforced Karl Rove's goal of cementing a permanent Republican majority, and in the president's...
Good Morning
Al Franken is ahead behind by 700 votes in Minnesota, and he's asking for a recount. Turnout was, of course, historical. 130 million voters and counting, compared with 122 million four years ago. And...
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Late Night Victory Thread
Tonight! President-elect Obama! 12:57AM: I'm still up. I have commenced with the celebratory beverages. 1AM: If you haven't already, maybe take a moment to read these stories. 1:07AM: It looks like...
A Message from The President-elect
I'm about to head to Grant Park to talk to everyone gathered there, but I wanted to write to you first. We just made history. And I don't want you to forget how we did it. You made history every...
Landslide!
So says the AP.
The Tide Is Turning
President-elect Barack Obama!