Procrastination is my middle name. I wanted to do an Obama piece for a while. I was terrified he wouldn’t win throughout the whole night of the election when results started coming in. When he won Pennsylvania by a large margin I started to feel a lot better – McCain and Palin were campaigning on the ground there a lot. That’s also where videos of some of Palin’s rallies I saw came from with the most vile racist, bigotted crowds I have ever seen in a “civilized” blue state. Carvel once said that Pennsylvania was “Philadelphia and Pittsburgh with Alabama in between.” Couldn’t be more true.

Thanks go to Al Jazeera’s English Language Podcast, Rocketboom’s election coverage, Democracy Now’s Podcast, and NPR’s Fresh Air for coverage that CNN, MSNBC and FOX all missed. If you haven’t downloaded their podcasts, you really missed out on some great coverage.

Of course there’s also Steve Brodner‘s “Naked Campaign” for the New Yorker. which was sheer brilliance, I can never get enough of his work. And also Ira Glass’s “This American Life” – I’m glad I was introduced to this.

Soon, soon, Obama will grace these pages.

Real Historic times we’re living in.