I'm not sleeping till someone call this... I want to see McCain concede. That will be the cherry on top for me.

Oh, I'm staying 'till the "bitter" end. I'm soaking up every moment of this. It's sometimes hard to see the epic significance of an event as it unfolds. Take a moment to reflect on what all this means, and how you will look back on it.

For once I agree with David Broder: this election is easily the most amazing we've had in living memory. I make no apology for my enthusiasm.

I say let Fox rationalize this as a victory of centrism, even "center rightism." In that way, perhaps their vanity, and need to feel they are not in the extreme, will ultimately get in the way of their mission to utterly obstruct and attack an Obama administration.

One can dream, no?

Concern trolling now, amazingly in the face of so many weeks of demonizing Obama as near-Marxist, that Obama is far "less liberal" than advertised.

They're also still bumbling around about "center left" and "center right," as if therein lies the ultimate gemstone of meaning to their entire existence. They have no clue what to make of all this.

It had to be one way or the other: either Republicans admit that a decisive Obama win and expanded Dem majority proves this is actually more of a "center left" nation; or Republicans call such results proof of America's "center right" nature, thereby implicitly conceding that the political center, as marks "center right" has moved significantly to the left.

It's all just gibberish anyway - they don't know what the hell is going on.

For those hungry for a nice schadenfreude orgy, it's now getting very safe to turn to Fox....

The funereal aura is starting to set in over there. Concentrate on how much destruction they've sown and it will be quite pleasurable to watch.

Devilish!

So yes, I begrudge KY, TX, SC, and all the other "safe" states for McCain. Let them call themselves the "real America" but their other presumptive privileges should be revoked.

I feel the precise opposite. The most fitting end would be for these states to benefit from the prosperity (hopefully) brought by the president they so opposed. These states are heavily "Christian." What could be a more "Christian" result than that?

Giving goodies only to friends and allies is, and must always be, the province of the right.

That's going to have to wait in line behind this image

I didn't look! OK, I did.

Whatever you do, don't picture Cindy and John McCain necking in the back of the Straight Talk Express.

Sorry! I was burdened with that image, so you should be too.

See the post below regarding the irrelevance of exit polls. I'm posting them in the spirit of full information, letting you decide what to do with it.

Damn you and your information!

The whole story sounds overdone. Apart from that,why would any self-respecting Philadelphian feel intimidated in seeing a Black Panther?

That kind of crap only matters to the people still hopelessly haunted by the ghosts of the 60s. A rabidly dwindling contingent.

And thank God for that.

Not even going to look.

By the way, everyone take a moment to reflect on the way you felt on this day, at this time, in 2004, and how vastly it contrasts with how you (probably) feel now.

Speaking for myself, there has been a levity and buoyancy today that I haven't felt in a very long time. Here in the DC area, the mood everywhere was palpably cheery, despite the gloomy weather. There is a distinct feeling of the fog lifting, and the forces of sanity and reason finally returning to our country.

I don't care if it's premature - I'm barely containing myself from having a little glee-fit.

(You can have one in the privacy of your home, and nobody else has to know!)

They didn't buy it. In the end, that will be history's judgment on the sleazy and insultingly stupid GOP campaign directed at the American people. Jeremiah Wright, Bill Ayers, terrorism, socialism, Joe the Plumber-ism -- none of this putrid, Rovian mind sludge worked on voters. So let's hear it for the often disparaged American electorate.

I am literally drinking to that.

I'm noticing that the other cable news stations aren't biting on the Black Panther story that's apparently seized the bleary-eyed cocoon-dwellers at Fox News. Let commence the increased marginalization of the insane radicalism that was once called "mainstream."

Sorry, to quote a terrible song from the 80s, ain't nothin gonna break my stride today.