One last comment and then I have to get back to work-type stuff. We all have our personal causes which we'd like to think were advanced by the election results. One of mine is that sleazy campaigning and the demonization of the opposition shouldn't work and we should celebrate when it doesn't. I'm not well enough versed in North Carolina politics to know why Kay Hagan was able to unseat Elizabeth Dole but I'd sure like to think that Dole commercial — the one where a Hagan impersonator shouted, "There is no God!" — had a lot to do with it. It would be nice to think Obama's win had a lot to do with people simply not buying the idea that he was this secret Socialist or Communist who was out to take Joe the Plumber's great wealth and redistribute it to the poor.
For reasons I may write about in the next day or three, I doubt that Sarah Palin has much future in elected office and will instead opt to become the Oprah Winfrey of the Fox News crowd…and maybe even on Fox News. But whether she runs again or not, some friend's going to have to caution her about making divisive, arrogant comments about how the people who support her are the "real Americans," as she did in Guilford County, North Carolina. The "real Americans" of Guilford County gave 58.75% of their vote last night to Obama-Biden and only 40.44% to McCain-Palin.