On Monday, I diaried about what my Tuesday would be like - spent as a working journalist, and thus compelled to conceal my excitement and joy and, yes, tears for a few hours while the rest of you did my celebrating for me.
Now my work night is over...and...well...
YEE FREAKIN' HAW!
I spent my evening in a gathering of Republicans, and it was the best time I've ever had watching a bunch of people get increasingly miserable. The only noise in the place was the band, and when it stopped playing, the room got deadly silent.
Nobody stayed very long once the results were in.
What's that word again? Ah yes...schadenfreude.
It wasn't until the night was over, and I was safely back home in front of the TV and the computer and getting caught up on all the dKos and 538 I missed while working (holy crap? droogie's back! wow!), that the reality of "President-Elect Barack Obama" finally hit me. The tears started flowing, and they haven't stopped since.
And if you've read this far, and stayed up this late, some interesting news from newly-blue western New York:
One-term incumbent Mike Arcuri in NY-24 was supposed to be a "safe Dem," but ended up with a nail-biter, finally edging out a narrow win at the end of the night.
Dan Maffei handily defeated Dale Sweetland to hand NY-25 to the Democrats.
Alice Kryzan couldn't quite close the deal in NY-26, so that one stays red.
And Eric Massa's rematch with Randy Kuhl in NY-29...well, that one was just weird. The AP called it for Massa about 11:45. But Massa himself didn't claim victory, and Kuhl didn't concede. With just about all the votes counted as the sun rises over western New York, Massa leads Kuhl by 4000 votes out of about 250,000. There are supposedly some 20,000 absentee ballots out there yet to be counted.
Stay tuned...the end of this one seems clear, but it's not quite over yet.