The Palestinians and Muslim world are unhappy with Emanuel. My faith in the rhetoric of the campaign being just rhetoric is slowly coming back. Perhaps we will have a centrist Obama.

Apparently not on the economy, the market doesn’t really have so much faith in him.

But McCain was a valiant candidate, and most properly eulogized:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/11/06/AR2008110602570.html

Before we get so excited about a “new” America, though- voter turnout was basically the same as 2004:

http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnn/2008/images/11/06/pdf.gansre08turnout.au.pdf

…and even then, Obama only got 16% of the new vote. Apparently, Obama won because it was a Democratic year and we had an economic crisis. History repeats itself.

If you’d like to have a look at the new president-elect’s web site, it’s http://www.change.gov/