Can't speak for anywhere else, but the sense I have here is that we're about to get a new alphabet soup goin' on:
We'll be hearing the L word (Landslide), the M word (Mandate), and yes, the N word (NOW), as for the O word- well, I think you get the picture...
A brief anecdote: I voted early (um, duh, working at a precinct all day...), and the normal routine is one polling place, downtown, and it is dead. On that day (Saturday), there was an additional place open.
AND THERE WERE LINES THERE, TOO.
As I was waiting in line, a group of first time voters (I say first time, because there's no way in hell a one of 'em was even 20) coming out of the voting area. They were laughing, dancing- it was the happiest damn scene I've seen in a long, long time. I had no idea my turn was coming.
But come it did, when I got my ballot, and start to vote. Four plus years of screaming, ranting about this madness that passed for an administration, eight years of all the bullshit, eight years of the ruling wealthy elite fistfucking the nation, all of it came pouring out as I filled in my votes. Yeah, it may be only a spit in the ocean, but byfuckingGAWD I get to at least spit. I could feel my eyes welling up, as they are right now as I recall that feeling.
Talk about a catharsis! I can't say I left the polls dancing per se, but I was certainly a Fat Man Smiling.
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