i keep a diary

November 04, 2008

Election Night

Whoa, remember when no one was sure if Obama would get elected and we'd be stuck with John McCain and maybe even Sarah Palin if McCain dropped dead? Those were crazy times. Here are the photos I took on that historic election day.

Tuesday, November 4th

The first thing I did every morning during the weeks leading up to the election was frantically scan FiveThirtyEight for any changes in the predicted outcomes of the election. Seeing 98.1% probability of an Obama outcome helped calm the butterflies in my stomach and so I headed out...
...to the polls to vote. Stuytown voting line.
ellen, jeet, jenny penny, josh adcock, lisa, meredith, pauly
Around 11pm that night, a whole bunch of us headed over to 3A to watch coverage of the election results.
apt 3a ˆ ellen ˆ jeet ˆ jenny penny ˆ josh adcock ˆ lisa ˆ meredith ˆ pauly
A little after midnight, CNN called the election for Obama.
jeet, lisa, meredith, pauly, sarah
Relief all around (even the Canadians were stoked).
apt 3a ˆ jeet ˆ lisa ˆ meredith ˆ pauly ˆ sarah
mccain
McCain's concession speech.
apt 3a ˆ tv ˆ mccain
Watching the crowd go crazy in Chicago.
tv
constantine, josh adcock, me
Relieved.
couch ˆ constantine ˆ josh adcock ˆ me
barack
You're the man now, Dog.
tv ˆ barack
On the way home we passed the "go out and vote" mural on Ave C...
mural
mccain
...and laughed about how they painted McCain to basically look like an older, scarier Richard Nixon.
mural ˆ mccain
Hmmm, I'm getting the sense that the mural artist was slightly biased.
mural
barack
Say what you will about him (SECRET MUSLIM AGENT!), but he's most definitely an upgrade from W. Congrats, America!
mural ˆ barack

5 comments

  • ikeepadiarynovember 10, 2010

    As bad as things are, I can't help feel like they'd be a lot worse if there was a McCain/Palin dream team in charge. No one likes Obama because he's one of the only people willing to admit that we're in some serious fucking shit and that the sun is setting on America's empire. This isn't even news. Shit has been going on for YEARS - and we've finally got someone who wants to try to start addressing this mess issue by issue. I don't think it's going to be easy, and it may not even be possible, and while I'm not a huge Obama fan, I find his realism refreshing and prefer it toa couple of half-witted charlatans whose only advice is to wrap ourselves in the American flag, close our eyes and keep pretending that if we can just kill these gosh-darned terrorists and stop gay marriage that the shit's not going to hit the fan. But hey, that's probably why I live in New York City.

  • ed mairnovember 10, 2010

    Right on Brian. I knew I liked your blog and now I am sure. W got us into this mess not O!

  • philnovember 15, 2010

    Leave the politics out of it. Your blog is great without this. bama has been (is) a disaster, True McCain probably wouldn't have been much better on the economy but we he wouldn't have ramped the deficet up so much. A poor choice by America. And by the way Ed it was not W that got us into this. Blame can be shared for the last several presidents. If the government would quit trying to make things "fair" for everone we'd all be better off. But O sure did not fix anything. he aggravated the problem. Well. enuf political stuff, there are plently of blogs to handle that.

  • parkernovember 16, 2010

    Yes, leave the politics out but listen to my rambling, uninformative speech about politics.

    Love the murals!

  • philnovember 18, 2010

    Jerk,