I don’t know what I expected, but it wasn’t this. I thought it would be a struggle. I thought there would be shenanigans. I thought it would be days before we knew the truth. But last night, promptly at eight o’clock Pacific, the media announced to the world that the people of these United States had elected a new leader. We chose reason over fear. We chose hope over cynicism.

I don’t have the words to describe what I feel today, but over at Deus Ex Malcontent, Chez says it better than I ever could: Wide Awake In America