I had my snack-dinner prepared (DQ cotton candy blizzard and fries with gravy) and my blanket and new pup all ready to watch the coverage of the 2008 US Presidential Election and after putting in a load of laundry and tidying up, I sat down with 3 seconds to spare and tuned into NBC.This is my fav time of the year (or every 4 years to be exact) and I love watching every second of news coverage during election night. This was truly a historic election, no matter what the outcome was.
McCain started out up (which was wctually surprising to me) but then all of a sudden as the 8pm et poles closed, Obama gained over a 100 point lead over McCain which had me worried, but I knew McCain's states were not yet projected, and this would be a long evening. Typical of me, I was too tired at 10:30 and headed off to bed.
I had a small hope that McCain could pull through even after losing a few key states, but sure enough, the 6am news started with announcing that the USA has it's first African-American president: Barack Obama.
While I am a strong McCain supporter because of my morals (and Republican being the Canadian equivilant of Conservative), I am an Obama supporter because of his sincerity, passion, and pride for his country and his new position. This is especially true after watching his acceptance speech this morning on perezhilton.com. I was very very moved. Had I been American, I would be a very proud citizen and proud of the new President. I truly believe he will change the country and affect the world with his leadership.
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