They're dancing in the streets tonight in Port-au-Prince:

Musician Michel "Sweet Micky" Martelly scored a come-from-behind victory Monday in Haiti's presidential runoff, according to preliminary results from last month's election showing he easily defeated a former first lady for the leadership of a country facing enormous challenges.

Martelly, who has never held political office, received nearly 68 percent of the vote in the two-way race with Mirlande Manigat, electoral council spokesman Pierre Thibault said in an announcement that was immediately followed by noisy celebration in the Haitian capital.

My instinct would be to say something snarky about electing an entertainer president (God knows America would never do anything like that), but from what I've read about President-Elect Sweet Micky, he might just be exactly what Haiti needs. A little more leadership, a lot less corruption... as long as he brings competent people into his administration, he certainly couldn't do any worse than his predecessors.