Happily Wrong

OK, so the Bradley Effect doesn't exist (or didn't rear its ugly racist head in this election). And I was wrong, wonderfully wrong.

Wrong about Florida (+27).
Wrong about Ohio (+20).
Wrong about New Hampshire (+4).
Wrong about Nevada (+5).

And I could still be wrong about North Carolina and Indiana (still too close to call).

(and it looks like I'll probably be right about Missouri... and if so, there goes your perfect record, Mo)

McCain was completely classy in his concession (though members of his crowd were not). I've said it before and I'll say it again right now: Obama should offer a cabinet post to McCain (DefSec, Senator?).

I thought Obama give a very good speech (not transcendent certainly, but solid).

What began 21 months ago in the depths of winter cannot end on this autumn night.

This victory alone is not the change we seek. It is only the chance for us to make that change. And that cannot happen if we go back to the way things were.

It can't happen without you, without a new spirit of service, a new spirit of sacrifice.

So let us summon a new spirit of patriotism, of responsibility, where each of us resolves to pitch in and work harder and look after not only ourselves but each other.

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America, we have come so far. We have seen so much. But there is so much more to do. So tonight, let us ask ourselves -- if our children should live to see the next century; if my daughters should be so lucky to live as long as Ann Nixon Cooper, what change will they see? What progress will we have made?

This is our chance to answer that call. This is our moment.

This is our time, to put our people back to work and open doors of opportunity for our kids; to restore prosperity and promote the cause of peace; to reclaim the American dream and reaffirm that fundamental truth, that, out of many, we are one; that while we breathe, we hope. And where we are met with cynicism and doubts and those who tell us that we can't, we will respond with that timeless creed that sums up the spirit of a people: Yes, we can.

I am hopeful. (and for me, the eternal pessimist... that's saying something)