Politics Buzz Remember Joe “the Plumber” Wurzelbacher? Unfortunately, so do the good folks at Christianity Today, who decided to let him announce that he would never let “queers” near his children. Furthermore, he claims to have gay friends who, despite his opinions, are going to “do their thing.” Wurzelbacher, however, declined to specify whether “their thing” included “eating children.”
Politics Buzz It's pretty much a done deal: Barring some juicy scandal, Hillary Clinton will be nominated as Secretary of State after Thanksgiving, according to aides from the Obama camp. The Wall Street Journal reports that “the Obama transition team has resolved the financial disclosure issues surrounding the work of her husband, former President Bill Clinton, and the president-elect feels comfortable moving ahead with the nomination.” Does this mean that we're now officially out of interesting political things to talk about until the inauguration?
John McCain made his first post-election appearance on The Tonight Show last night. McCain has a long chat with Jay — is this a snub to Letterman?
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While President-elect Barack Obama enjoyed a few days with his family after a hard-fought election, speculation swirled in the nation's capital around potential administration appointees.
If you factor in population and percentage of votes by county you get this bloated, bulbous monstrosity. That’s also a fitting description for the whole electoral process. Click through to see more.
http://www.newsweek.com/id/167581/page/1
Newsweek uncovers the truth about the McCain/Palin campaign dynamics, threats on Obama, and the hacking of the Obama campaigns files. Dun dun dun.
Politics Buzz The best part about the election is all the little statistics and maps about how counties/states voted. Here are the states that are either solidly Blue or Red. Diversity reigns supreme in Oklahoma. Tulsa here I come!
http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2008/results/ballot.measures/
Check out a list of all the ballot measures throughout the country. Looks like everyone hates the gays.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/11/04/reactions-around...
It wasn’t just America who celebrated Obama’s win last night. Check out this amazing collection of photos taken from around the world, showing the international community’s reactions (including one of Barack’s step-grandmother, Sarah Obama, celebrating in Kenya).
http://www.theonion.com/content/news/nation_finally_shitt...
The Onion’s commentary on Barrack Obama’s monumental win.
When the game came to end, McCain gave a pretty classy final note from his side.
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Asian stock markets rose Wednesday, tracking solid overnight gains on Wall Street, as uncertainty about the next leader of the world’s largest economy was lifted with Democrat Barack Obama’s elevation to the U.S. presidency.
Politics Buzz Did you ever think this day would come? Barack Obama is the 44th President of the United States of America. Watch the slideshow and revel in this historic and emotional moment.
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Elizabeth Dole lost to the Godless Dem, Kay Hagan.