By now, your mind is clean from all of the spin cycles we've seen. She lost a 20% lead, so he did better. She held on and has momentum. The mainstream media sucks (OK, that's not so much spin but truth). And that's a fun game to play sometimes. We had an election - now we can all play Wednesday morning quarterback. We can watch Hardball and Countdown like sports fans do SportsCenter and Baseball Tonight. But at the end of the day, we should all gather to say:
Thanks.
Thank you for voting in record numbers.
Thank you for answering the doors and phones when canvassers and phone-bankers came by to talk.
Thank you for asking questions, thinking and showing up to participate in democracy.
And thank you to people like casperr, speck tater, and many many others. In fact - feel free to post names and links to helpful people in this thread, and I'll add them - this is a time to be thankful for WEEKS of really hard work (really, months and years).
Pennslyvanians (and volunteers) - you have the thanks of a grateful party, no matter how frustrated we are at the outcome.