Also, I have heard all the candidates speak and none of them remind me of JFK. I haven’t seen a politician since who had the wit, intelligence, and grace that JFK had. That doesn’t mean there aren’t any good–and possibly great–candidates out there.

The story is that voters from BOTH sides gave the kingmakers the finger, and voted their conscience. Granted, this represents a small percentage of voters in a small state BUT - what if it’s not a fluke?

Could we wind up with an election where the main candidates - BOTH of them, are not loyal to the party machines, and won’t take their marching orders from Wall Street? It’s possible IF the story is truly that the electorate has broken ranks across the spectrum.

I was born in 1980, a whole 12 years after 1968, the year that killed an entire generation’s ideology. Its been a whole 40 years! With Obama we can all turn a page on this whole era of killed hope and dreams! How can anyone not be inspired by this type of opportunity?

Whoever the Repub candidate is, will he continue the platform or have to frantically scramble for an ACTUAL platform. (Romney ran on, yes it was subtle but there, ‘enemy’ thing and it got him nowhere.)

I may have to get a plastic spray bottle so I can spritz people in the face with cold water each time they repeat such a lie… the way one does with pets when they’re caught nibbling on the poisonous leaves of houseplants.

Truly the youth vote is huge here. I well remember feeling the same way the Obama-philes felt last night, when George McGovern campaigned in 1972, when many of us in the so called “Youth Generation” still had our hearts and minds firmly planted in the eupohoria of the 1960s. Where we in for a surprise when the Republican machine steam rollered our dreams over the next couple of decades. I hope Obama, if he wins, doesn’t meet the same fate. And I’d hate to see all those kids become jaded like me.

It’ll take quite a few more defeats to sink Team Hillary, which I doubt are in the offing. “The Titanic is unsinkable”. My sad scenario has the three Ds more or less jockeying for first place, with my man Edwards finally expiring from lack of cash. Hillary has the most cash of them all. And lets hope Rudy disqualifies himself with a health problem, while staying near the bottom where his fear mongering belongs.

Expect a lot of pearl-clutching as Huck’s past misdeeds “suddenly” come to light, because there ain’t no way the GOP will let him get away with it, any more than Dean could on the Democratic side.

Because Huck is not that tightly wrapped.

I’m okay with Obama’s win, though I hate playing “strategy, or dumbness?” on OUR side with regards to his public soft play on universal health care and energy independence.

As an angry DFH blogger, I’m favoring Edwards, (who, I’m told, is now “doomed”, despite having beaten the woman the same people were telling me was inevitable all summer). But I must admit that Obama sometimes gets me, in the part of my heart that misses Bobby Kennedy. Wouldn’t it be wonderful to have a President who at least talks about things that way? Sigh.