Has it hit you yet? I mean REALLY? REALLY?

[codjh9]

I was just making some cornbread in the kitchen to go with some soup I made yesterday, and out of nowhere, I just said out loud, "We just elected a half-black man to President of the United States!!!" and then proceeded to whoo-hoo loud enough to just about rattle the windows.

[99th_Monkey]

1. I comes to me in waves, with shivers & occasional tears.

and this palpable sensation of like waking up from a very ugly 8year nightmare.

[helderheid]

2. Same for me

I just opened more champagne.

[DesertRat]

3. I think it finally sunk in this afternoon

After the horrors of the past 2 presidential election nights, I don't think I let it sink in until now. It finally hit me that not only have we elected Barack Hussein Obama, but that the Republicans will hold no national power for at least 2 years. :woohoo:

[Avalux]

4. It's sinking in slowly today......I feel elated and get tearful at times.

At work, I can't help shooting my mouth off and one of my McCain loving co-workers isn't so happy today. She is fearing the worst from Obama (whatever that is). I looked at her with a huge smile and said "I think you'll be pleasantly surprised; give him a chance and let's talk again in a couple of years". She didn't have a response.

[budkin]

5. Kinda... I mean I'm overjoyed... but the reality won't set in until January 20th.

[GumboYaYa]

6. I have been just crazy busy today. The first time I had a chance to think

in quiet was at lunch. I broke down and cried like a baby. It was like a nightmare that I had lived for so long was over. Like many here, the countless hours of work over the past eight years finally paid off.

[tunacan]

7. I'm still walking around the house...

... asking my 5 yr old son if he knows who's the next president just to hear him say "Barack Obama is the President of the United States of America!" and getting a kick out of not having to add "well, not yet..."

[Clio the Leo]

8. It actually sunk in......

.... a couple of weeks ago. When they were talking about the Obamercial and how "they were putting the World Series on Hold" (which of course we know they didn't but still.) Something clicked.

I had the realization that I simply could not comprehend it ending any differently than it did last night. I tried to stay objective, and I tried to envision McCain winning, but it never seemed like a possibility.

It was like I jumped ahead and read the last page of the book.

You know how it always sounds weird to hear the President-elect's name? "President ______" and your brain has to get used to it?

Not this time.

Just rolls right off the tongue.

[firedupdem]

9. comes in waves! cried in Mcdonalds parking lot today...it just

hit me. President Barack Obama! It also helps that he and joe are hott!

[Cha]

10. Obama's race never

meant anything to me..but, it still hasn't hit me that we elected Obama the man who campaigned on Change and Honor.

[eshfemme]

11. It still hasn't set in. Been obsessively following the news of the reaction

Just oh man... I think it won't fully set in until I watch Obama safely inaugurated and in the White House.

[ObamaKerryDem]

12. It's hitting me on and off; I cry, smile, then go back to being shocked again...but just all around

thrilled! :D

[kestrel91316]

13. I am unusually calm about this (so far). I just am incredibly happy that

the US saw the light and elected THE VERY BEST PERSON FOR THE JOB, who just happens to be black. I think maybe the first time I talk to a black person about it I might fall apart. Something will open the floodgates, maybe the inauguration, maybe his first press conference. Maybe tonight when I go home and finish the rest of the champagne.......

[abburdlen]

14. No robo-calls today

no mailers in the mailbox. No idiotic 'how McCain could win' stories on TV.
My phone hasn't buzzed with a text message to help out a candidate and Nate Silver is giving any projections anymore.

I keep hearing 'President-elect' and 'Obama transition team' but it somehow doesn't feel real.
I've been confident Obama was going to win for months but it hasn't clicked yet that it's over.

I suppose getting more than 3 hours of sleep would help though.

[Mist]

15. I'm still in a bit of a daze. nt

[Orsino]

16. Not yet.

Same ol' same ol' running the country into the ground today.

I have hopes for January.

[Seldona]

17. It hit me today.

I am not in the voting minority anymore. For someone who came of age durng Carter/Reagan years, I have lived looking through the prism of the right wing for most of my adult life, even during the Clinton Years. It is amazing to realize how far this country has come in the last few years.

[Overseas]

18. No I am still in shock.

Took a stroll. Did an errand. Still in shock. But that's okay. The past seven years were deeply depressing, so it will take time to fully lift.

[JustAnotherGen]

19. About 11:00 a.m. today

When I listened to the voice message from my dad while he was at the Hyatt in Rochester NY last night.

I listened to it again. His race (I'm bi-racial) really hasn't meant that much to me. Truth be told had we been running Bugs Bunny and Tweety Bird I would have been just as passionate about this election but . . .

My dad is 67.
He was Emmett Till's age.
He was born and raised in Talladega Alabama.
He's black.
The tears in his voice?

That got to me. :cry:

[polichick]

20. I've been walking around in a fog all day - partly from fatigue and partly because...

...I can hardly absorb all the joy that comes with this win ~ not only because Barack is who he is, but because, after 38 years of activism on behalf of the environment (since that first Earth Day when I was a kid), we are finally going to have the green revolution that will save our planet. This win is HUGE in so many ways!

[Genevieve]

21. not yet.

it's hard to believe ---
it's just so good,
so unbelievably good.

[NightWatcher]

22. it hit last night driving home alone from the Dem Party party around 1AM

I had cd with Yes We Can by will.i.am and i hit play during a commercial on CNN Radio. I wept tears of joy half way home. I climbed in to bed took a deep breath and slept the sleep of babies (for 4 whole hours before I had to get up for work). This morning was like a marijuana hangover, I still felt kinda groovy through mid day. I loved listening to progressive talkers as they too celebrated the news.

Yes it has sunk in.

[OnceUponTimeOnTheNet]

23. Watching those photos of the folks overseas is what brought it to me.

Their faces filled with delighted disbelief. It really has happened!
i sobbed breathlessly, scrolling past those photos. I did not expect this cry reaction, happened a few times this afternoon now. Hope it stops soon.

America did it. Obama is in.