Last night the nation made history as it elected Barack Obama as the 44th President. Unlike the past eight years, this election wasn’t even close. Obama won with 349 of the electoral college, leaving McCain with only 147. In terms of the popular vote, Obama had 62,816,357 (52.3%) to McCain’s 55,656,309 (46.4%). Which isn’t unbelievably close with only a six point spread, looking at popular vote, but a hell of a lot closer than any election I’ve been able to vote in.
In election news the House and the Senate are both held in majority by the democratic party. Senate seats are 56 (Dem) to 40 (GOP) and the house is 252 (Dem) to 173 (GOP). It’s wonderful to finally see this country saying enough is enough. We don’t like what’s going on here. We want a change and we want it now. I can’t wait until Barack gets inaugurated. We’ve still got Bush for two more months, which is honestly way, way, way too much time for that stupid f@&ker to be in office. But change is here. The people have spoken.
Unfortunately in Minnesota politics, it looks like we’ve got Norm Coleman’s crooked ass in office for another six years. I hate Norm Coleman. He represents everything wrong with the Republican party right now. A whole lot of doing nothing write in getting anything done, and doing a lot of work in getting in the way of people doing the right thing. And we’re “probably” going to get the s.o.b. for another six years! Minnesota voted 54%-44% Obama. and yet have a tie with Coleman/Franken. Why? Because Franken is a hot head and used to be on SNL. I’m honestly not a huge fan of Franken or anything, but I hate Coleman. So am I disappointed that a man named Barkley ran as a third party candidate taking up 15% of the vote? Yes, overall yes, I am. Why? Because 15% is nowhere near enough to take office, but it’s plenty to jack everything else up pretty damn well. Consider this, you could very safely say that a most people who voted for Barkley would have voted for Franken. Take a small majority of Barkley’s 15% and give it to Franken, and there’s the election. Is the system flawed? Is Barkley flawed? Are the voters flawed? I’d say a bit of everything. But regardless of who’s fault it is, I’m just pissed that we’ve got Coleman for another six years.
Enough ranting. OBAMA!!
Just finished voting. Super kick-ass-a-ma-tastic!
GO OBAMA!!
It’s pretty scary when the next round of terrorists seem to be the American people themselves. That fact that as many people believe Obama to be a terrorist (and/or Muslim, which by the way, being Muslim doesn’t make someone a terrorist), along with the fact that the GOP has done nothing to stop this type of hate is terrifying. Not only has the GOP not done anything, but they continue their fear mongering and it has been pushed to the limit so much, that this is the result. Something bad is going to happen and I’m truly afraid of what that could be. We finally might get someone intelligent in the white house and there’s a good chance that a bunch of narrow minded, miss informed, naive people are going to try something.
I think we have a lot more to fear from the people in this video than anyone in the middle east.