Sometimes I'm happy to be wrong. I never thought Obama would get above 51% of the popular vote but he won 53%. That's the largest popular vote margin for a Democrat since Lyndon Johnson in 1964. This is a once in a generation election, and the 2/3 of people under 30 who voted for Obama made a clear statement about what the youngest generation wants for the future of their country.
Conservatives are trying to downplay the significance of the victory and that message is creeping into the mainstream press. They want people to believe that Obama doesn't have a liberal mandate, that it was really a narrow victory despite the numbers, and that he needs to move to the center. They would be arguing the same thing if he won 50 states and 60% of the vote. It's ridiculous.
I was also wrong about Missouri and Indiana. I thought MO would go with their Illinois neighbor (I guess that's still up in the air) but that he had no chance in Indiana. Again, I'm more than happy to be wrong on that one.
I was already saying "Yes we can!" pretty often before election day and now I've gotten a little out of control with it. The difference now is that other people are saying it too instead of just laughing at me.
The Dixie Chicks have a song on their last album called "I Hope" that I've been listening to a lot since Tuesday. Someone put it on YouTube with parts of an Obama speech. This is how I feel about the election.
I won't say "Yes we did!" Things are just getting started.