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The Really: Are we all winners today?

Losers: Politics of nastiness. Big loser. From the Palin dog eat sled dog meaness to the Rovian “fear” factor; it turns out that Rove/Cheney was good for one four year term and one stolen election and possibly the destruction of the GOP, forever.

Stuart Smalley: Not quite good enough but Franken will get a recount.

Gays. Prop 8 appears to have passed but it may be a violation of the 14th Amendment. Obama appointments to the judiciary may make Prop 8 a short-lived affair.

Winners: Democrats. If Obama continues to be smart (and after the inspired excellence of his campaign there is no reason to think he will not) the critical problems facing America may get the intelligence and care (no long vacations for Barack or camping out for a month while a shadow president steers the helm).

Regular folks: You would think from the Bush years that America was made up of hedge fund managers and CEOs, but no it is made up of regular Joes and Janes who bear no resemblance to Joe the Plumber. Decent, hard working people who have been getting the shaft for a decade. These are the real winners of this election.

America: Does this remove the original sin of America? No. But today more than ever in the history of this great nation it is being redeemed.

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