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Senator Barack Obama<\/strong> acheived a historic milestone tonight and is now the President-Elect of the United States<\/a>. He was as gracious in his victory speech as Senator John McCain<\/strong> was earlier\u00a0in making his concession. A positive tone that has been absent for too long in recent election cycles.<\/p>\n I voted for Senator McCain<\/strong>. I am not a supporter of President-Elect Obama but I hope that Republicans and conservatives will start their period of loyal opposition by modeling the respect for the new president that President Bush was seldom accorded. There will time enough for rough\u00a0political battles in the future without sinking into partisan rancor now. The other side ran the better race and our immediate priority\u00a0should be\u00a0to get our own house in order. There are \u00a0reasons the GOP just was clobbered that cannot be waved away that\u00a0go beyond media bias or the political skills of Barack Obama.<\/p>\n Congratulations to those Obama supporters and Democrats in the ZP readership, it’s your night tonight as well.<\/p>\n Other Reactions UPDATED!<\/span> :<\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0New Yorker in DC<\/strong> <\/a>\u00a0 Coming Anarchy<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0Glittering Eye<\/strong> <\/a>\u00a0\u00a0Whirledview<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Prometheus 6<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0Rightwing Nuthouse<\/strong>\u00a0<\/a> \u00a0Andrew Sullivan<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0Chicago<\/a> Boyz<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0 TDAXP\u00a0<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0Mithras<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0 Steven Den Beste<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0Aqoul\u00a0<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0SWJ Blog<\/a> \u00a0Shloky<\/a>\u00a0 \u00a0Michelle Malkin<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0Thomas P.M. Barnett<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong> Fester<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong> Pajamas Media<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Senator Barack Obama acheived a historic milestone tonight and is now the President-Elect of the United States. He was as gracious in his victory speech as Senator John McCain was earlier\u00a0in making his concession. A positive tone that has been absent for too long in recent election cycles. I voted for Senator McCain. I am […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[188,531,185,534,251],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-188","category-barack-obama","category-democratic-party","category-mccain","category-republican-party"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2924","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2924"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2924\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}