Fired up, Ready to go!!!

After a year of waiting, Leah and I finally cast our votes for Senator Barack Obama, and I'm happy to say that 295,089 people in South Carolina voted the same way.



Here's some more electoral data from Arianna Huggington:

Obama got 295,091 votes to Clinton's 141,128 (more than twice as many). He got more votes than John McCain and Mike Huckabee combined (279,723). He won 78% of the black vote, 25% of the white vote, and 52% of the non-black vote under 30. And he was more than a little responsible for the fact that Democratic turnout was twice that of 2004 (532,000 to 280,000). These numbers are pretty hard to run away from.

Bill Barol of The Huffington Post said the following in regards to Billary's reaction to defeat:

It may be good politics to spin tonight's electoral thumping as a small zit on the otherwise smooth face of Hillary's inevitability. But it's disrespectful, it seems to me, to voters and to the process. There was discourtesy, too, in Hillary's brush-off of the election night niceties: "I want to congratulate Senator Obama," she told a Tennessee audience, and then left skidmarks accelerating directly into her stump speech.

JFK's daughter Caroline endorsed Senator Obama in The New York Times, stating that he'd be A President Like My Father:

Senator Obama is running a dignified and honest campaign. He has spoken eloquently about the role of faith in his life, and opened a window into his character in two compelling books. And when it comes to judgment, Barack Obama made the right call on the most important issue of our time by opposing the war in Iraq from the beginning.

I want a president who understands that his responsibility is to articulate a vision and encourage others to achieve it; who holds himself, and those around him, to the highest ethical standards; who appeals to the hopes of those who still believe in the American Dream, and those around the world who still believe in the American ideal; and who can lift our spirits, and make us believe again that our country needs every one of us to get involved.

Also in The New York Times, Frank Rich discusses why Republicans would love to run against the Clintons in The Billary Road to Republican Victory:

What has gone unspoken is this: Up until this moment, Hillary has successfully deflected rough questions about Bill by saying, “I’m running on my own” or, as she snapped at Barack Obama in the last debate, “Well, I’m here; he’s not.” This sleight of hand became officially inoperative once her husband became a co-candidate, even to the point of taking over entirely when she vacated South Carolina last week. With “two for the price of one” back as the unabashed modus operandi, both Clintons are in play.

For the Republicans, that means not just a double dose of the one steroid, Clinton hatred, that might yet restore their party’s unity but also two fat targets.

More to come...