Being on the winning side is a new, unusual feeling

So pleased that Barack Obama won last night (and decisively, across the Interior West, Midwest, and New South, not just the blue Northeast and Pacific). It's strange to have someone I actually wanted to win do just that (even in primaries, I'm accustomed to backing the losing candidate). The only sadness (and it's a sharp one) is the passage of Proposition 8, amending discrimination right into the state constitution. (Adam says: Maybe we can get the state out of marriage entirely?) I just think of all those people who have married in joy and celebration during the past five months, and my heart breaks for them. So tears of sadness, tears of joy, bittersweet victory.