Yes we can. Yes we will

The streets of denver are wild tonight.  People cheering, horns honking.

That rush of uplifting hope you felt at 9pm pst tonight?  That was the collective cheer of hope that rushed through the country when hearing the news.

Barack Obama elected 44th President of the United States of America.

You didnt feel it?  Thats ok. You can watch if you want.

Or you can be a part of the solution.  Its up to you.

Obama will win the election with a larger margin of electoral and popular vote than George Bush ever did.  Does he have a mandate?

I dont think so. I think he will win by 6 or 7 percent after all the vote is counted, but when you talk about mandate, the electoral college is irrelevant.

Obama talks a very good centrist game.  I think hes going to have to govern from closer to the middle.

Is this the end of the culture war?  Is this the end of the republican party as we have known it?  Seriously, think about it:

John McCain was never a hard core righty until 2001 or so.  He knew he had to start sucking up to the right wing scum that Atwater and Rove had so heavily courted.

Today, they realized they created a monster.  We have heard about all the finger pointing, but frankly I think McCain lost it when he picked Palin.  I am sick and tired of listening to Pat Buchanan talking about the 10 point bump in the polls, then the economy hit blah blah blah.  She would have still been interviewed by Gibson and Couric.  They did not vet this woman.  She did not do her homework after she was picked.  She was an absolute disaster for the ticket.

I have never experienced anything like this.  The cheering in the streets of Denver, the happiness in the air and the general feeling of relief.

The end draws nigh.  Not the end of the world.  The relief that the end of having extremist right wing division rammed down our throats.  The relief that a common sense administration and congress was on the way.

Yes people.  It was a mandate.  Not a huge mandate.  not a 500 to 38 mandate.

But it was way bigger than either Bush win and you all know it.  When you go to bed at night and stare at the ceiling, you know that this was a resounding referendum on the last 8 years.   There is even a possibility that the democrats will achieve a filibuster proof majority.  If not now, for sure in 2010.

In retrospect, I laugh at myself for panicking.  For even thinking that after the last 8 years that our country would elect John McCain and that preliterate moron, Sarah Palin.

But I did.

And no.  We are not a center right country.  More on that later.