It's 3:30 AM on November 11, 2008. It's supposed to be over. But I find myself still reloading the likes of FiveThirtyEight, Politico and Talking Points Memo. I have things I should be doing that I'm not. I don't need to be so well-informed about the number of ballots counted in the Minnesota Senate race.
For a year at least I have plugged in and watched the polls. I hoped that November 5th would dawn a new day, that I would go out into the sunlight to join my brothers and sisters, the we we had been waiting for, and celebrate the change we brought. I thought I would crawl out of this coffee-stained hovel and check my mail for the first time this month. I thought I would close this many-tabbed browser, click off this laptop, and find on my desk a book. Yes, we can! Yes, we can! But, no, we can't.
Now, it's 4:30 AM. I've taken an hour to write this post because David Remnick wrote a piece on race in the Obama campaign. I give up. You win, Barack Obama, you win.
And so I join the commentariat.
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