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Can’t write. Euphorically trawling online election coverage. Here’s my favorites of the campaign:

EVENTS AND MOMENTS
YouTube: Grant Park, Chicago, Election Night. Crowd reaction as Obama victory is annouced on the big-screens.
YouTube: walk into Starbucks on Nov 4th, tell them you have voted, and your tall coffee is FREE. That is seriously a class act.
SNL: Tina Fey’s first appearance as Sarah Palin.
SNL: The Vp debate by Saturday Night Live.
YouTube: John McCain ’suspends’ his campaign to return to Washington due to financial crisis.
CNN: CNN’s Jack Cafferty on John McCain’s call to suspend the presidential debates.
CNN: Sarah Palin’s infamous chat with Katie Couric. Reflected on by Jack Cafferty.
The Late Show: Tina Fey on her portrayal of Sarah Palin.
NationalReview:Conservative columnist & Palin supporter Kathleen Parker, changes her mind and announces Palin is ‘out of her league’.
YouTube: Obama rejects McCain’s call for debate delay.
Huffington Post: David Brooks: Sarah Palin “represents a fatal cancer on the Republican Party.
New York Times: Sarah Silverman’s message to your grandma- vote Obama.
YouTube: Sarah Silverman’s Great Schlep video.
The Late Show: Dave Letterman is stood up by John McCain. Dave rips on Republican campaign, then crosses to live feed of CBS news.
YouTube: Colin Powell endorses Barak Obama.
You Tube: Matt Damon’s denouncement of Sarah Palin.
YouTube: ‘5 Friends’ viral video featuring Leonardo DiCaprio, Natalie Portman, Sarah Silverman, Dustan Hoffman, Ellen Degeneres, etc. produced by Leonardo DiCaprio.
VOTE 4 HOPE by MC Yogi.
YouTube: footage of the 200,000 strong crowd for Obama in Berlin.
YouTube: Town Hall debate, “you’re right, I don’t understand” moment.
YouTube: Town Hall debate, McCain’s infamous reference to Obama as “that one”.
YouTube: McCain forced to correct rally attendee who says of Obama “he’s an Arab”, and is booed by his own supporters.
YouTube: John McCain’s speech at the Alfred E Smith Memorial dinner. This was the one night when McCain completely out-spoke Obama. It was so revealing and a glimpse of what could have been for this campaign had it not turned it’s back on McCain the man, and taken the low low road.

REPORTAGE AND DISCUSSION
DigitalJournalist: Callie Shell’s photography, on the road with Obama since 2006.
Huffington Post: Thankyou so much for running, Sarah Palin.
Washington Post: Obama to reverse approx. 200 Bush actions in first weeks of presidency, including policies on climate change, stem cell research, reproductive rights. (This is like some kind of insanely beautiful dream.)
Huffington Post: Rupublicans not wanting to be on the wrong side of history. Y’know that whole anti-American, friend-to-the-terrorists thing about President-elect Barack Obama? Never mind.
Huffington Post: Will Smith on his reaction to the Obama Presidency.
Huffington Post: The top 5 body language moments of Election Day.
New York Times: David Brooks on what an Obama presidency faces in righting the wrongs of the previous generation.
InternationalHeraldTribune: What is left of the Republican party- it’s old resentments, and the narrow appeal of conventional Republicanism.
CBS News: How Obama ran a campaign that was not about race.
Huffington Post: Dear Internet, you are the 2008 election winner.
New York Times: Rejoin The World; the Bush administration wrenched the United States out of the international community. There are bridges to build.
The Guardian: the world’s reaction will be harsh if the US rejects the leader it yearns for.
New York Times: The Class War Before Palin; how the Republican party have driven away the educated.
New York Times: The original Maverick dynasty, and why they’re “just enraged that McCain calls himself a maverick”.
New York Times: how the Republican party are linking Barak Hussian Obama to terrorism.
Huffington Post: Palin announces media is threatening her 1st Ammendment Right to lie & spread anti-intellectual ignorance.
HuffingtonPost: Bradley Effect? Here comes the Obama Effect.
TPMElectionCentral: Sarah Palin drops William Ayers references from her stump speech (especially when McCain is standing next to her, cuz y’know, don’t want to make him look bad.)
Washington Post:A great politician anticipates openings others don’t see and creates possibilities that were not there before.
New York Times: Rebublican-to-Obama conversion.
YouTube: Republicans swapping sides.
Huffington Post: Now John McCain appears on SNL; wtf is this campaign thinking?
SurveyUSA: What the electoal map looked like 2 years ago.

RESOURCES
New York Times: NY Times staff photographer Damon Winter’s photographic journal while on road with Obama campaign.
TechPresident: Electorial map graphic based on number of votes, rather than land mass. (Highly recommended.)
270towin.com: It takes 270 electoral votes to win the election.