Oba-mania Sweeps The Nation

Well, I just can't help myself... I'm sitting here watching CNN and checking the live #election2008 live twitstream, hoping that projections hold and the red tide is flushed out of the system. The free 'I voted' Starbucks coffee will come in handy if it is a long night. Why don't we simplify and turn Starbucks into polling places?

Across from the University of Arizona, a group of students rallied on a busy street corner, holding up hand-made signs for Obama. At another corner, a giant billboard-sized McCain/Palin sign had a giant red circle-slash painted over it. Nearby, a Prop 102 (Arizona's equivalent of California's Prop 8--another attempt to insert bigotry into the state constitution) sign had a swastika drawn over it. The polling places looked busy this evening.

Locally, I am hoping to see that Gabrielle Giffords defeats Tim B(igot) and retains her House seat in congressional district 8, that Andrea Delessandro wins here in legislative district 30, and that Prop 102 is stopped.