Nice night we're having, eh?

Obama

303 electoral votes

The Presidential race was called fairly early in the evening.

SOUTH ORANGE COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE DISTRICT Governing Board Member, Trustee Area 1 Completed Precincts: 651 of 651 Vote Count Percentage DAVE LANG 154,961 68.6% DAVID L. MARTIN 70,797 31.4% SOUTH ORANGE COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE DISTRICT Governing Board Member, Trustee Area 3 Completed Precincts: 651 of 651 Vote Count Percentage WILLIAM "BILL" JAY 118,647 52.9% ARLENE C GREER 56,368 25.1% JENNIFER J. LONG 49,132 21.9% SOUTH ORANGE COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE DISTRICT Governing Board Member, Trustee Area 7 Completed Precincts: 651 of 651 Vote Count Percentage TIMOTHY "TIM" JEMAL 70,764 32.5% JAN SERRANTINO COX 58,420 26.8% JOHN S. WILLIAMS 49,263 22.6% MIKE MOODIAN 39,341 18.1% Dr. Jim Wright, Trustee Area 6 -- Uncontested

CITY OF LAGUNA HILLS Member, City Council Number To Vote For: 2 Completed Precincts: 21 of 21 Vote Count Percentage ANDREW BLOUNT 4,766 27.5% DORE GILBERT 4,141 23.9% BILL HUNT 4,031 23.3% RAGHU P. MATHUR 3,569 20.6% AJ DJOWHARZADEH 802 4.6%

MEMBER OF THE STATE ASSEMBLY 68th District Completed Precincts: 345 of 345 Vote Count Percentage DONALD P. (DON) WAGNER 83,066 61.7% CHRISTINA AVALOS 51,524 38.3%

Rebel Girl's Poetry Corner: "the still small voice vibrating—America's choosing day"

Election Day, November, 1884
-Walt Whitman

If I should need to name, O Western World, your powerfulest scene and show,
'Twould not be you, Niagara—nor you, ye limitless prairies—nor your huge rifts of canyons, Colorado,
Nor you, Yosemite—nor Yellowstone, with all its spasmic geyser-loops ascending to the skies, appearing
   and disappearing,
Nor Oregon's white cones—nor Huron's belt of mighty lakes—nor Mississippi's stream:
—This seething hemisphere's humanity, as now, I'd name—the still small voice vibrating—America's
   choosing day,
(The heart of it not in the chosen—the act itself the main, the quadriennial choosing,)
The stretch of North and South arous'd—sea-board and inland—Texas to Maine—the Prairie States—Vermont,
   Virginia, California,
The final ballot-shower from East to West—the paradox and conflict,
The countless snow-flakes falling—(a swordless conflict,
Yet more than all Rome's wars of old, or modern Napoleon's:) the peaceful choice of all,
Or good or ill humanity—welcoming the darker odds, the dross:
—Foams and ferments the wine? it serves to purify—while the heart pants, life glows:
These stormy gusts and winds waft precious ships,
Swell'd Washington's, Jefferson's, Lincoln's sails.

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(with thanks to the Academy of American Poets for pointing out this one on this day.)