Reynolds has a poll up on how you plan to react to the Obama election, so go vote someplace where you can still have an impact!

His options for "How do you plan to respond to the Obama-Biden victory?"

• [1] With celebration of hope and change!
• [2] With dignity and a determination to be the loyal opposition.
• [3] With Kos-style wild opposition.
• [4] With political organizing and an effort to support and identify better candidates.
• [5] I plan to drink heavily.

So far, 2 and 5 are the most popular approaches, with 4 coming in close behind. I plan to combine 2 and 4.

What I will not do is say "he's not my President." Because he is. This is democracy, and it means we don't always get our own way.

As a practical matter, the man will govern in accordance with his beliefs, and be voted out after four years like Carter was—or he will attenuate those beliefs enough to pose as a centrist, and have a chance at a second term. We'll see.

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After all, several libertarians/conservatives I know are now in the position of having to pay off some wagers to their pessimistic/Democratic colleagues and friends.

My host, for instance, is taking a co-worker out to lunch today. Lobster.

And I now owe "Steve of Huntington Beach" a meal. Steak, which seemed like a good idea when I was sure my guy would win.

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One by Blue Star Beth, thanks John McCain, and Zoey points out that are heads may be bloody, but are still unbowed.

I will support my new President 100%. I will fight, however:

• any gutting of our defenses;
• any risky maneuvers in the Middle East;
• any show of weakness toward Russia;
• most of the new taxes;
• any additional limitations on the Second Amendment;
• any moves toward a "single-payer" healthcare system.

• And if a new paramilitary organization is developed that allows Federal military personnel to go into a state for the purposes of policing that state—in a workaround of / subversion of posse comitatus—I will fight it tooth and nail.

• And if the "Fairness Doctrine" is enacted WRT radio, but not television, I will scream bloody murder; my voice will be heard, one way or the other, because the solution to bad speech is more speech.

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Newt has some thoughts.

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Or two. Or three.

Before I leave the Las Vegas area, I need to:

1) get up early enough to say "goodbye" to my amazing and wonderful blogger-host out here, and

2) play that extra $5 Sejanus sent me, earmarked for what is now referred to as "gaming."

3) Arrive in L.A. before my husband (another lark) goes to bed, if possible.

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Just in a Matthew Arnold-ey sort of mood:

Ah, love, let us be true
To one another! for the world, which seems
To lie before us like a land of dreams,
So various, so beautiful, so new,
Hath really neither joy, nor love, nor light,

Nor certitude, nor peace, nor help for pain;
And we are here as on a darkling plain
Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight,
Where ignorant armies clash by night.

And then, of course, there's Anthony Hecht:

. . . [A]ll the time he was talking she had in mind
The notion of what his whiskers would feel like
On the back of her neck. She told me later on
That after a while she got to looking out
At the lights across the channel, and really felt sad,
Thinking of all the wine and enormous beds
And blandishments in French and the perfumes.
And then she got really angry. To have been brought
All the way down from London, and then be addressed
As a sort of mournful cosmic last resort
Is really tough on a girl, and she was pretty.

If you ever wanted to read "Dover Beach" and "Dover Bitch" back-to-back, here's your chance.

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And it wasn't long after this that Jerry left us. But let it pass.

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. . . sometimes end up with the worst damn jobs?

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But I am, indeed, going to wear the Mardi Gras-style beads that decorated the table here in the casino's sport-book bar.

Because we fought the good fight.

(At least, most of us did; my jury's still out on certain elements within the party, but I will leave that analysis for another day.)

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McCain just conceded.

I'm going to finish my martini, eat my quesadillas, and go back to Gentleman Blogger's home. (Yeah: today I've had a doughnut to eat, plus whatever protein and vitamins were in my fruit smoothie.)

I'm glad I listened to Glenn Beck for a while this afternoon: he pointed out that if things didn't go "our way," we needed to go back—tomorrow—to remembering that this is a Democracy, and "the people have spoken."

No biggie, I guess: we just got Beta'd.

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Dolly Parton/Broadway vs. Silicon Valley/Google.

Hm.

Via Insty.

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. . . that theft is still illegal in this country. At least, it is until January . . .

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The Los Angeles Times should be ashamed.

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HillBuzz lays it out.

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Ed Morrissey is "cautiously optimistic":

I think John McCain will win a squeaker over Barack Obama, 273-265, by holding Florida [and] Nevada, and adding Pennsylvania as a trade for Virginia.

I pretty much agree with his map.

In a shocking development, AllahP is . . . less starry-eyed.

Stacy McCain reminds Obama supporters that voting day for progressive Democrats is actually going to be on Wednesday, due to the new system that will help them accommodate the increased turnout in this cycle.

Also, I'd like to remind you that tomorrow is Media Embargo Day, since the exit-poll data will be even more out-of-whack than it is now. It is especially imperative that you observe Media Embargo Day if you live in the Mountain or Pacific Time Zones.

The rally at Henderson today drew, they told us, 11,000 McCain supporters. I cannot believe this man's schedule today: seven stops in one day, from Florida to Arizona.

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He's flexible.

By Mary Katherine Ham, via Hot Air.

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At least, my own: A the H and I nearly had to "step outside" over California's Proposition 8.

Patterico, however, is on my side. I wonder if his wife agrees with him.

And the proprietress of the now-dormant CalBlog is at odds with her own husband over the same issue. Of course, as attorneys they are used to discussing such matter in a dispassionate way.

My own equivalent household debate was not, really, my finest hour.

On the other hand, my husband didn't have play dirty pool by saying, "you really are very kind-hearted" during our discussion.

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until you people started calling me too many times. Now that I'm hearing from you at 10:00 on a Sunday night, I'm not voting for him any more!"

Please select the rest of this dialogue from the following:

1) "Actually, Dickweed, it's 8:50. And if you aren't smart enough to set your fucking clock forward, how the fuck do you expect to make it to the polls on Tuesday?"

2) "Wow. That has got to be the most reasonable, compelling argument for selecting a Presidential candidate I've ever heard. Wait a moment; I need to write this down."

3) "Oh, I'm so sorry that due to a combination of computer glitches and possibly misguided enthusiasm by people who actually give a shit about the future of this country, you've gotten more phone calls than you care for. Do you need me to verbally suck your dick before you're capable of doing the right thing?"

4) He hung up rather promptly, putting an end to the call and once again delivering me into temptation: when someone hangs up or is terribly rude, I just ache to program the system to ensure that we will, indeed, call them again. I mean, it stands to reason that if a conversation ends that abruptly, that the line just somehow got disconnected. And if the line got disconnected, that's just like they never answered in the first place. So they should get another call, right?

I was delivering this rationale to one of the volunteer college students, who I had thought would get that it was tongue-in-cheek, when one of the supervisors—a tall, intimidating PUMA—cut in and corrected me. "No," she told us, in no uncertain terms. "That counts as a "refusal to talk," and gets them off the list so they won't waste our time any more."

I looked up at her, smiled and said, "but I'll bet you can understand the temptation!"

No smile in return; after all, I was preparing to lead nice young people down the rosy path to the everlasting bonfire. And there's no getting around that.

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has entirely too much fun dissecting a CBS poll.

For your information, Mr. Smarty Pants, they didn't just sample voters to get this result; they also relied on statistical magic fairy dust, which has terrific predictive value.

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From Evan Coyne Maloney to Jeff Goldstein.

Am I mistaken, or was there a time when universities promoted . . . actual thought?

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