We were election-channel surfing and went back to CNN to the timer countdown till the polls closed on the west coast. It was probably as close a thing ever to a New Years countdown.. because when it hit zero, CNN blasted Barack Obama ELECTED PRESIDENT and gave Obama all of California’s electoral votes (almost pre-emptively). Then the shouts from one apartment to another came and we went down into the street. Cars honking, bar-goers shouting, people high-fiving down the sidewalk.. (well one thing’s for sure- I’m glad I got invited out at the last second because it would’ve been half as climactic in my room).

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