Barack Obama will be the next President of the United States. Of the states that voted for Bush in 2004, Obama took Florida, Virginia, Ohio, Iowa, Colorado, and New Mexico. Montana, Missouri, Indiana, and North Carolina are still too close to call. Obama ran an excellent campaign, McCain didn’t. You just can’t do that when the deck is stacked against you.
I fear that Obama’s beliefs are pretty far to the left, despite the moderate image he tried to project during the campaign. History says I’m wrong. Most candidates move toward the center after they are elected. I hope I’m wrong and history is right. I’m willing to give Obama the benefit of the doubt for now. Time will tell. It will be interesting to watch him assemble his cabinet and see which issues he decides to tackle first.
It’ll be interesting to see who the Republicans nominate four years from now. I suspect it’ll be someone we haven’t heard much about.
The good news for conservatives, and possibly even some moderate Democrats, is that the Democrats will not get their filibuster-proof majority in the Senate. That will help me sleep a little better at night.
Mississippi went 57/43 for McCain, as expected. We still have two Republican Senators. Wicker beat Musgrove 55/45. There was never much doubt Cochran would win. The representative for Northeast Mississippi will be Travis Childers, a Democrat. He beat Greg Davis, the former mayor of Southaven, 55/43, which was not unexpected.