Barack Obama is the new President!

[bailunrui]

Around 11:00pm, it was called.

BARACK OBAMA IS THE PRESIDENT-ELECT!!

OPEN CELEBRATORY THREAD!

ETA (11:51pm ET):: I'm going to bed, but feel free to squee in my absence.

Comments

[bessemerprocess]

I keep crying. So amazing. So happy.

[bailunrui]

:-D

[chasingkerouac]

I'm still amazed that we actually did it. Just... amazed and thrilled and a whole bunch of words that I can't seem to find at the moment *lol*

I'm still hoping that North Carolina will end up blue in the end. We tried hard here, so I still have my fingers crossed.

[bailunrui]

SQUEE!

[tribal_woman]

I wish my father and my grandparents who would be besides themselves based on their experiences growing up in segregated areas...protesting for Civil Rights...serving in the segregated units of the Korean war and more...I wish they could have lived to see this. I am beyond words for the cultural impact in my life, proud and hopeful in a way that I haven't felt in a very long time. I am overwhelmed.

But speaking as one who voted with my conscience for the person who matched closest to my political views ( as I have always done no matter the party), I am very, very happy.

[bailunrui]

Despite my youth, even I never thought we'd actually get to see a day like this in my lifetime. So proud.

[sunbeamj]

Oh my god, is it really true? I -- I don't know what to say. I wasn't convinced the U.S. could elect a black man. But we did. Oh my god. I think I'm going to go cry. And so early, too. Oh my god.

[bailunrui]

It's true! No lie!

[sunbeamj]

Yes! And McCain just conceded! That proves it to me. I just don't know what to say now.

[sunbeamj]

I love that line. Oh man. Go Obama.

[koljeff]

Oh wow. Nice.