Obama Wins!

Ha! Not yet, but let's be honest, the data in Ohio doesn't look good(update - NBC calls Ohio for Obama, so start saying, President-elect Obama), nor does NC and VA, but perhaps McCain can pull a miracle in those states. Without Ohio, it doesn't matter, and I think that will be the end (Update, the end).

Additionally, I expect Obama to take Colorado and perhaps Nevada.

Republicans did their part in Georgia, though, giving the state to McCain and re-electing Saxby Chambliss. A filibuster proof (until the D's change the rule) majority now rests on the D's taking all the remaining seats. Wicker in MS is going to be a tough one for the Dems, and perhaps Norm Coleman can keep the joke of a jokester, Al Franken, at bay. I swear, a senate with Al Franken is going to be entertaining. Maybe he can replace Joe Biden as the laughingstock of the Senate (if he wins).

So, a rotten night for the GOP, but, we deep down knew it would be that way.

Later, an homage to Obama.

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Welcome Dear Leader Obama

Reading the comments over at the Corner (on National Review Online) tonight, there are some that echo my thoughts. I'm with Andy McCarthy on this one. If some 527 doesn't come along and save the McCain campaign, we're looking at a loss like 1996. The arguments against Obama are that he is a complete unknown, and what we DO know about him, isn't good, to wit:

1. His associations and friendships with people like William Ayers and Jeremiah Wright and ACORN have to call into question not just his judgement and integrity in his explanations, but, does he share these people's views?
2. He has never voted against a tax increase
3. His health care plan would likely force private insurers out of the market and end up with a government single payer system
4. He has yet to reach across the aisle to work with GOP senators on any significant legislation
5. He believes our troops were "air raiding villages" in Afghanistan
6. He is part of the Fannie Mae problem
   

Although tonight's debate was civil and real people got to pose questions, since a lib (Tom Brokaw) got to filter the questions, all we got was the same old stuff. Nothing terribly interesting, and no McCain going off on Obama for being a terrorist-loving socialist.

So, I think we're pretty much looking at an Obama victory and all us conservatives are wishing we had a Romney/Palin ticket instead of McCain. Don't get me wrong, I love the guy, I love what he did for our country, and I think he'd be a great president, and a rock in a time of economic disasters and war.

Instead, we're going to get a neophyte, potentially radical, certainly leftist, potentially crooked Obama as president.