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This is not the time to be bitter or divisive – this is the time to celebrate a historic moment. Yes we can, and yes we did.

Yes We Did!!!!

It's not close enough for a recount. Finally, the moment we – who have been waiting with bated breath – have been waiting for...

McCain, go home and look for the real you, which got lost in the bitterness, anger, and whatever-it-take mentality.

Palin, return to The Last Frontier – you owe the good people of your state an apologies and explanations.

May God continue to watch over and bless our New President, and us as well.

Hey Alex don't forget to critisize McCain for the lousy campaign he ran, but i guess you are too partisan to admit your party's mistakes that were made.

NC Mom: You and others throughout the world donated to Obama.. your donation was legal.. world donations not...

For those that voted for Obama just because you thought he matched your relatively moderate view.. you were lied to.. For the most lib. Senator to get elected he had to move right. He will bounce back to the left like a rubber band no longer stretched.

That $300 tax credit will not get you a job. How many jobs will be lost when the business owner having to pay an additional 710k in taxes starts to feel the pinch.

As for myself (being a business owner), you can bet I will consider laying off an employee and force the remaining employees to be more productive.

Just wait and see.

McCain let the right wing Republican slime machine run his campaign, and he's paying for it now...in spades.
He's always seemed a decent, independent guy to me and I was inclined to vote for him. Then the Ayers, who is Barack Obama, Rev. Wright, Marxist, Socialist, etc. junk started....not to mention the subtle encouragement of things much worse.."not an American, a terrorist sympathizer, crypto-Islamist" on and on and on....it was disgusting. I turned from a supporter to an avid opponent. He debased and slimed himself, not Obama. What a shame.
And Palin?? Ohhh God...more neocon miscalculation, second only to the Iraq debacle.
I'm sorry that a true American hero will not have his chance to be President, as he's earned it in many ways over many years. But he and his party brought this on themselves. They're getting what they deserve.

I think it would be naive for anyone not to acknowledge that Obama (or whomeever the Dem candidate was) had a huge advantage and that was nearly cemented when the economy crashed. People naturally blame the president in power.

Also, someone noted that race was a minus for Obama, but I believe it was just the opposite. He will have nearly 100% of the African American vote and appears to have dominated the Latino vote as well.

It would have been a minor miracle had McCain been able to overcome all these negatives. I do agree that Obama ran as a relative centrist (and conservative on some issues, Clinton did the same in office), which tells me the country is not veering to the left.

To: Work for a Living:
It's a sad time for the American economy. But where do you think the wealthy would be spending any tax-break they would get? First, I doubt seriously if very many will be expanding their business and payroll given we're in a long recession now; but secondly, if they were to do so after the recession, they'll probably going to be doing it overseas. They're going to put the money where it does the most good for THEIR bottom line – and that's overseas because of the lower salaries and wages.
"Trickle-Down" only works if the money gets spent to buy goods in THIS country. Nowadays, a large portion of what we buy comes from overseas. So the Trickle-Down ends up in someone's pocket in China or India.

I'll believe the tax cuts when I see them. Just wait and see.

No Alex, it is the fact that when the economy tanks, the public votes for Democrats. Why is that? If Dems are such big spenders, why did Clinton leave such a large surplus? I think you Republicans need to see beyond your capital gains/tax bracket concerns. You have never been the party of the people. George Bush is a glaring example of that. Your a mix of greedy wall street money grabbers, right wing paranoids, and religious right who forgot the poor.

Also it helps if the Democrat swears off attack ads and smear tactics. For the first time since the Adams-Jeffferson race, negative campaigning did NOT win the day. We are maturing as a nation.

IT'S EASY WHEN YOUR RUNNING AGAINST MCPALIN...............

IT IS VERY EASY TO WIN AN ELECTION AS A DEMOCRATE WHEN YOU HAVE A TWO GREAT CANDIDATES LIKE OBAMA/BIDEN. THIS COMPAIRED TO THE OPPOSITION CONSTANTLY TALKING ABOUT HOCKEY MOMS WEARING LIPSTICK, JOE SIX PACK, JOE THE PLUMBER, ETC., ETC. ALSO ALL OF THE NEGATIVE ADS CERTAINLY DID NOT HELP.........?? THE DEMOCRATES DEFINATELY TOOK THE "HIGH ROAD" AND RAN AN HONORABLE RACE, WITH TWO GREAT CANDIDATES AND GREAT POLICIES.

CONGRATS OBAMA/BIDEN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Frankly I am glad they have 5,000 volunteer attorneys in Fla. checking this time. Democratic attorneys that is.

Obama is only where he is because of the degrading, sexist smears made about Hillary Clinton during the primaries. Had Obama been called a "he devil" the way Chris Matthews called Hillary a "she devil" he would not be in the White House. This election was rigged and it's a sham and a shame of a country. I feel no joy for Obama, rather I feel shame for him.

to coin a phrase, "We're not red states or blue states... we're the United States..." Yes We Can! Yes We ARE!

I'm sorry, but Obama won this election because he ran a great campaign. People were hungry for the sort of change he represents. Does that mean that part of it is because he's a Democrat after eight years of a horrid Republican? Sure, but I think you are vastly underselling his strengths, while pandering to some of the excuses we will soon hear from many in America who supported John McCain.

yes we can! GO OBAMA
By the way,shout out to Anderson Cooper! I really like that guy!!!

Alex intends to show how fortuitous the circumstances were for Obama, but his argument is weakened by not mentioning the strong circumstances against Obama's success: His minority ethnicity, the difficulty of convincing voters to support a candidate whose party will control Congress, and the extremely tough challenge he overcame from Hillary Clinton's candidacy. Balance it, Alex!

You're such an idiot!!!

Tax cuts to 95% of Americans? Yeah right.

Where are we all going to get jobs after he finishes fleecing the rich to pay for pork projects?

Both candidates stink.

Alex – I have question regarding the votes being tallied in Ga. if you look at CNNs projection at a lower level @ Fulton County there are less than 100,000 votes counted in a county that has 1 million residents, and you are reporting it at 70% reporting. What gives? I know that more than 10% of the county are registered to vote and have participated based on the turn out in early voting.
Can you find out what is going on here?

YEA HIGHER TAXES!!!

GO MORE TAXES!!!!!!!!

YEA GLAD DEMOCRATS ARE BLIND!!!

be honest,, consistant,, be real,,

Alex...speaking from one Cuban-American to another, the world has changed. Time to live in 2008.

What are the chance of the Republican Party or McCain Camp Asking for a recount in pivotal swing states due to the Acorn Scandal? Do you think this election will be over tonight or is litigation coming?

YES WE CAN!!!!

Jealous much? Bitter much?

The post mortem on this campaign will undoubtedly point to the fact that Americans will no longer respond in droves to the negative unfounded attack ads of the Republicans. The negativity of the campaign was what drove my husband and I to make repeated donations to the Obama campaign. In addition, the lowest common denominator choice of a Vice Presididental candidate in Palin sealed the deal.

one way to elect a Democrat is to let the people do it and NOT the Supreme Court and to also not STEAL the election and make sure every vote is counted.