I got up early this morning (5 O'Clock to be exact), voted shortly after 6, came back home, chopped it up with the wife, and went work. I got to campus around 7:40am and saw a line of students, and the university prezi, waiting to vote. And now....
Damn! Right? I mean, this is crazy. In preparing the above graphic, the Electoral Votes rolled over into oblivion, and now a U.S. President of definitive African descent will be inaugurated in January of 2009. And as I type this, 338 Electoral Votes and counting.....Someone wake up Ronnie Raygun, and show him what a real mandate looks like.
BARACK OBAMA MAKES HISTORY 11:11 pm
| Name | Votes | Vote % | Electoral votes | |
 | Obama | 45,623,830 | 51 | 338 |
| McCain | 42,512,171 | 48 | 129 |
This is indeed my J.F.K. moment. I will never forget this moment. I will never forget Louisiana, and I will never forget the realization that America could potentially live up to it's expectation.
I've never had a reason to consider my pride in this country. As the grandson of a Korean War vet, the son of ex-military man, and the direct relative of a victim in what is considered the last mass lynching in America, I am beginning to be proud of America - in the truest sense.
I'm a brown man with blue-state tendencies, in a red state, and I imagine that after the shock wears off, this area will be abuzz.
Excuse me, my President Elect is on television. I'll finish this later.
pea©e
drék
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