On a night when Republicans lost the nation as a whole their transformation into the Democratic Party of the 1870s became complete.

But even in the old Confederacy there isn’t that much love for actual out-and-out old time Confederates.

Yay, the sinking of Tea Party favorites…a lesson that will surely not be learned — they’ll be back dumber than ever. Good luck with that mainline GOPers, that’s a bed you’ve happily made.

History was made tonight in Colorado. The voters of the state chose to legalize marijuana. The Denver Post is projecting that Amendment 64 will be approved. With 38 percent reporting, the initiative is winning 53.1 percent yes to 46.9 percent no.

CNN has called the 2012 election for President Obama. Congratulations to the Obama campaign for executing superbly. They left the Republicans in the dust.

Now the real work begins.

Democrats have now secured enough Senate seats to hold onto the majority in that chamber while Republicans have been projected to keep control of the House. The Presidential race still hasn’t been called yet but it is looking very bleak for Mitt Romney at the moment.

It is election night and so far things are looking good for President Obama. The exit polling, which is not always accurate, currently has Obama winning in the critical swing state of Ohio.

At last, the moment we’ve all been waiting for! It’s the day we finally don’t have to watch any more campaign ads for, like, at least a year.

Anecdotally, I’ve been hearing that turnout is pretty good, which is a little surprising to me given my belief that the overwhelming majority of voters on both sides are casting votes against the other guy than enthusiastically supporting their guy. I would really like to see polling numbers on that, as I can think of few better indicators of the breakdown of democracy when neither party can offer a presidential candidate that anyone* believes will enthusiastically represent their interests.

Sam Wang of the Princeton Election Consortium mentioned again today: Romney’s momentum stalled out three weeks ago.

Our long national nightmare is finally ending…cue the long national nightmare.

As you no doubt know, unless you rely upon Republican election boards, today is finally Election Day.

The major newspaper endorsements indicate the makeover American superpower received when President Barack Obama was elected in 2008 worked. There is unanimous consensus among the top twenty newspapers that endorsed Obama that Obama repaired the image of America that was damaged by two terms of President George W. Bush.