mom placation was ironing by which mens perrypops in a womansuit is the new child mystericating teats that can taint baconated digestive broads plastercasting gnostically from the great gospel wwjh

I think it's going to be morning before that race is called.

coleman is now 15000 votes ahead.

also, the envrio/art amendment is going to lose because people who didn't choose yes or no count as a no vote. t (o_O t)

what? thats insane

they printed it on the ballot but people didn't pay any fucking attention apparently or hate art and nature.

i can kind of understand people hating art if theyre insane or something but nature??? DUDE, YOU ARE NATURE!!!!

Ahem ARTS ARE ALSO V V IMPORTANT! Esp if I relocate to mpls!

I voted for it, because it was just not that much money to add to the sales tax. I say that as a person with very little money! The only reason I might have opposed it is because it was such a small number that it would have been hard for my math-challenged brain to calculate (obviously no reason!).

SIGH

tza, please come here anyway - we need your votes!

And your company, of course. :)

I know I haven't been around in a while but <3 you guys. I also know that tonight wasn't perfect but really, you should be proud.

JUST GOT MORE PERFECT NEWEST RETURN SAYS IT WILL PASS WOOOOOOOOOT!

also hey dude hi dere!

also, we just reelected the only muslim US house rep by a three to one margin. feeling minnesota again!

prob should stop the celebratory drinking at this point before i trail off into full on nonsense

Ahem ARTS ARE ALSO V V IMPORTANT!

you know this because you are not insane <3

YOU should stop the celebratrory drinking? try advancing six hours and imagining seagulls squawking outside your window as you contemplate whether another beverage is a good idea or not. :P

so glad i booked wednesday off work.

i also know this because funding the arts = gov't grants for general operating expenses = possibly decent salaries for arts professionals like myself.
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i brought myself home so as to not have a TERRIBLE hangover tomorrow... i don't think i will be able to sleep though!!!

aw barack's thank you txt was so sweet!

;n_n; you guys!!

oh michelle bachman i hate your crazy eyes

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michelle bachmann is currently on my TV letting us know that she is responsible for making gas cheaper. you goddamn nutjob.

ARTS/ENVIRO is going to win lolcat.jpg

!!!

That woman. UGH.

Somehow NC kicked out Senator Hairspray while we have to keep Bachmann? Ugh.

omg this coleman-franken shit is so close!

why does it say 'no ballot measures' for MN on msnbc.com?

No idea. I have not seen any info other than from you guys about that one.

On a totally different topic, I just want to say how awesome you all are and how much I <3 you all.

Thanks for the sanity-saving commentary, especially of late!

I'm afraid to wade into the election threads. Never good at catching up on long ones.

Congrats to those of you in blue states!

When they called it our street erupted in whoops and cheers, firecrackers were let off. I cried. Like a baby.

Hey ITR, I was so full of vodka when I got home last night.

The Franken thing is soooooooo crazy; do we know if the first count includes absentees/overseas? I would like him to win by ONE overseas vote - mine - and did not know that Barkley was 'stopped' for soliciting at the fitness centre across the street from my mom's office, or so says madre at any rate. That was the last useful contribution she made before going into meltdown over my Franken vote. WTF HE IS OUR ST LOUIS PARK HOMEBOY.

I <3 Keith Ellison so much. The margin of return is wonderful, since behind the Muslim novelty factor is a hardworking district Congressman of the old school. Obviously Bachmann's district will have to concern-troll her for all of the next two years or find something petty and illegal she's done and escalate the shit out of it until she has to go quietly.

Mom phoned to 'call' MN for me and is spitting nails, she's so pissed off. I very reasonably pointed out that when her guy won in less legitimate circumstances I didn't rail that hard so respect the moment, OK?

I did not drink for fear of falling asleep but I was wide awake and even work up an hour early today. Too excited.

G did fall asleep but I shook him violently awake to watch the acceptance speech.

i could not make myself go to bed til after 3 and now i am a week bit hungover. meanwhile, i have just noticed, while checking the mn senate race, that you have a county called "lac qui parle." really!? does mn have talking lakes!? bc that really might weigh heavily in my city choices.

I can has a President Obama?

i have a hot president waiting for me in my whitehouse so let me just post this:

i am really misty this morning! i think it's still sinking in... prop 8 makes me ;_;

I need to really kick ass with the workload today and I can't focus for shit.

Tehresa, I think that if you were to slink into the Whitehouse right now, you would be sorely disappointed.

it's true, i was a bit premature but YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN

lolz and <3s to all of you.

Ugh on Coleman & Bachmann and especially Prop. 8. Why are we always going two steps forward, two steps back in this country? That's no way to dance, people.

Actually if you put some swivellage into it, that is exactly The Hustle.

Sara, what is recount news now?

I have searched for recount news and Kos is saying the margin is Coleman in front by 600 votes so a recount is necessary but no breakdowns on absentee/overseas, ARGH.

TZA, we have much to commend in the names of things in MN also if the name's in French, it was given in the 17th century by les voyageurs and probably translated from whatever it was called by the original settler NA tribe in question. Hennepin was one of these guys, and when Hennepin Avenue was full of peep shows and stripper bars I loved pointing out to 'adults' that it was named after an 'explorer' priest.

happy day for you, america ;) ;)

it was weird to wake up to day and remember what happened last night... i'm not a 'politics person' at all, know virtually nothing about it etc. etc. but even i can't help but feel like some huge black clouds have cleared.

i just posted on the election thread:

it was interesting, as a foreigner living in the US, listening to my bf talk to his folks about the election: he was saying that everyone of their generation remembers where they were and what they were doing the day jfk got shot, but our generation, all over the world, will always remember where they were the day obama was elected president.

we have been invited to a huge inauguration party in delaware, lots of writers and poets and artists and small press publishers, all camping out at our friend's house... just found out today that it coincides with bf's work tradeshow (mandatory attendance) :( :( :( :( :( :( :(

I will remember that I was at home, in my pajamas, in a disbelieving but happy funk.

xp suzy - Coleman has declared victory, Franken has not conceded, there will be a recount, I know nothing of where the numbers actually are (sorry)...

i was in the kitchen making pasta, and jordan was taking a leak! we both heard the announcement (we had the tv up so loud), and we kind of come into the living room at the same time, a little gobsmacked.

I was at a friend's house eating BBQ brisket and collard greens while drinking sauvignon blanc (welcome to MA)

I just got off the phone with my sister, who really didn't get why pundits are falling all over themselves about OMG FIRST BLACK PRESIDENT. I tried to explain...

At one point I told her that Michelle Obama's maiden name was "Robinson," so it's plausible that our ancestor could have owned her ancestors. H's response: "well, our ancestors weren't here yet." (I should add that I prefaced this with the general notion that the history of African-Americans in this country suggested to many that this could never happen.)

Missing the point by looking at the trees instead of the forest. DUH.

but our generation, all over the world, will always remember where they were the day obama was elected president.

And 9/11.

Yeah, I kind of wish I had been somewhere else but sitting in my bed but whatever.

Sara, you can feel free to start an email chain between your sister, J031 and me on this topic.

GRRRRR Norman would declare victory; one can only hope it is along the lines of MISSION ACCOMPLISHED. Only hope Al swings it and does not lose by something like same exact number as another Al 'lost'. Oh the ironing.

I can't find any info about whether overseas votes figure in the count we've got.