Barack Obama's electoral landslide triggered Democratic gains at nearly every level of government. The U.S. Senate picked up five seats. The House padded its lead. New York's legislature united behind the Donkey to give Dem's all of state government for the first time since the Great Depression.
Beyond W.'s obvious affect on the vote, anyone else stop and think: How did we get here?
"The road ahead will be long," the president-elect told an enormous crowd at Chicago's Grant Park. "Our climb will be steep. We may not get there in one year or even one term, but America -- I have never been more hopeful than I am tonight that we will get there. I promise you -- we as a people will get there."
And on the decisive day of the longest campaign for the American presidency, with a nation apprehensive about votes that wouldn't count and machines that wouldn't work and lines that would be too long and supposed schemes to Schlock the Vote, the system rose to the moment; lean and calm and focused.
Just like the man it elected.
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