...and Al Franken trailing by less than 700 votes.

The Seattle Police showed a lot of class, respect, and restraint last night. I wrote them a note of thanks, and I encourage others to do so as well. I was very impressed with how they handled the crowds.

Many of those voting for “change” will turn on him in a heartbeat when the change he delivers is even worse than what we endured during the Carter administration.

One could easily make arguments to assail Barack Obama's legitimacy (his Muslim faith, doubts about his American birth). I suspect a large amount of his campaign contributions were illegal laundered foreign money. And the amount of election fraud done in his behalf may have broken records. But after a few years of the Obamanation, both the foreign meddlers and domestic leftist activist cheaters will probably live to regret their dirty deeds. Our enemies will be celebrating today.

Less people voted this year than in 2004. About the same number of votes elected Obama in 2008 as elected Bush in 2004. The man clearly has no mandate.

The fact we have our first black president is good for America. The fact he is a Socialist is the worst thing that America has done to itself in perhaps a century.

The Democrat Party did not win this as much as Republicans lost it. The Reagan revolution and the great 1994 takeover of congress was accomplished by conservatives who knew the right direction for the country. The election of G.W. Bush and the out-of-control spending during his two terms were evidence that conservative principles had been abandoned by the GOP. The result has been seen now in both the 2006 and 2008 elections. Without the conservative base and respect for conservative principles, the GOP has little to offer.

John McCain had no base, almost no truly invigorated support. Moderates generally have moderate support, and moderate support seldom wins elections. More people probably voted against Barack Obama than those who actually voted for John McCain. In many ways it is a relief to have McCain lose because his victory would have meant a huge setback in restoring conservatism to the GOP.

Barack Obama's change as he has articulated it so far is simply warmed over 1930s Socialism. His policies are a step backward not forward. Nothing damages liberalism more than a heavy dose of liberalism itself, and this is likely what we are about to see.

We conservatives need to put heavy pressure on the conservatives in congress to block the many attacks on our Constitution and Bill of Rights that this Marxist/Socialist/homosexual will probably attempt. We need to block attempts to load the SCOTUS with judicial activists who will try to legislate from the bench and shred the US Constitution.

But for the most part we need to let these misguided Socialists fall flat on their face, as they surely will. We need to articulate the conservative vision and be ready to pick up the pieces after this unfortunate experiment.

America will survive this, I sincerely hope. Liberalism will survive this too, but liberalism is about to be severely damaged by liberalism itself. Only some of Barack Obama's supporters are diehard liberals, the vast majority want change. They are about to see change that will make the Jimmy Carter years look good by comparison.

We are in for some very bad times, the damage Barack Obama is about to do to Liberalism and Socialism will teach many American voters a very important lesson.

True patriots will resist this man with all their might.

@WSJ: And now begins the era of the poor, beleaguered conservative. Like the republicans have had to deal with so just so much negativity these past 8 years... yeah, from the very clearly disillusioned populace that rightfully despises Bush. I should be surprised that they even waited one day after the election to repaint Bush in a revisionist light as the "Great Uniter", something he tried to paint himself as years ago (and failed, thanks to his extremely extremely divisive policies).

I can't wait for the endless complaints of conservatives about how their voice is NEVER heard, and they NEVER get their way, and waaah waaah waaah.

NOOOOOOOO!

We were soooo excited to see Darcy Burner ahead 57% to ?? last night, even though we live in the city. What happened?!

I love listening to Dancing in the Street, but they forgot to mention SEATTLE ...

Yes, it's totally true L.B. As "The Onion" will no doubt be proclaiming any minute now: "Our Long National Nightmare of Peace And Prosperity - Is Back!"

lord b, you're always comic gold. keep it up.

That was a wonderful concession speech by John McCain.

It's nice to see a glimmer of the old John McCain re-emerge. It's nice to finally go back to unapologetically liking John McCain.

The irony in all this is that history will probably look back more favorably on McCain and his career with his having lost this election than if he had won this election and had to try to govern this country for the next four years.

(I just wish McCain could lead the Republicans in the Senate instead of that bastard Mitch McConnell.)