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I am happier than I've been in a really long time.

Today is so much nicer than the last election, when a long day of knocking on doors and getting out the vote started out with a happy ending (we won Pennsylvania) and ended with the shitty one...you know what that was.

I didn't do much electioneering this year other than calling and emailing people in states with swing races and harassing them to vote. My state is solidly red, though I can feel good that my vote may have helped put a Democrat in as superintendent of education--god knows we need the help down here in S.C. My sister got to have the fun of voting out Rick Santorum, and I am jealous, but she says she thought of me in the polling booth and I guess that's good enough. I was gettin' some sweet action last night while Jon Stewart announced that Santorum had been "Raptured away." I was pretty close to rapture myself.

We proved Mr. Warren Ellis right yesterday, you know. Karl Rove is NOT a wizard and they can't steal every election. Your votes count, and right now it's going to come down to a few thousand of them in Virginia. But those few thousand look like they're swinging blue, and that's a great thing.

I am bummed that Harold Ford lost in Tennessee, but I guess we'll see a woman Speaker of the House before a black Senator from the South (since Reconstruction, anyway). On the upside, there's a new black governor in Massachusetts. Oh, and does anyone else find it hilarious that Hillary Clinton won exactly 66.6% of the vote to reelect her Senator?

I am irritated that Joe Lieberman still managed to get his squirrelly ass back in the Senate, and I wish someone would find me a cool Jewish politician. (Russ Feingold, are you a jew?) Warren Ellis's comments on Joe Lieberman cracked me up: "Joe fucking Lieberman got re-elected as an independent. He remains one of the most despicable, crooked, hate-filled and deceitful politicians in America. He pledges to vote with the Dems, but someone who's spent the last ten or fifteen years trying to pull the party to the right cannot be trusted on that score. He is profoundly anti-freedom. He appealed to the worst parts of Al Gore (and his censor-happy wife Tipper), and he should have had his legs broken years ago."

Also in the words of Mr. Ellis: "There's an actual honest-to-god Socialist in the Senate now." Yeah, that's right, Bernie. We're talking about you. Why can't you be my Senator?

Katherine Harris did NOT get elected, which is rad. You all remember her from the vote-stealing in 2000, right? And Ken Blackwell is also not elected to be governor of Ohio. You Ohioans and Floridians can feel safe voting now, right?

And they overturned the abortion ban in South Dakota. That almost makes me feel better about the gay marriage ban that passed in my state.

Oh, and Donald Rumsfeld is gone.

Today rules.

Also, I made the GRE my bitch. 750 verbal 680 math. that's right. I rule. you all want to give me lots of money to go to grad school, right?