[Sean]

What a gorgeous night and morning. After almost two years af arguing for this man to be our next President, it was an unbelievable feeling to see the race called for him the second polls closed here on the west coast.

And what struck me most as events unfolded throughout the night was how much things immediately changed - and I don't just mean my feelings of stress about it all finally disappearing. Obama's victory speech was, especially on the second viewing of it, incredibly forward-looking. Nothing about the flaws of the other party or the divisions we've seen being so clearly highlighted throughout these campaigns - it was all about where we need to go now. It reflected everything he's been saying for the past 2 years, and even before when you really look at it.

And one of the first things I heard this morning was his full name, Barack Hussein Obama, being invoked as something to be viewed with pride and excitement instead of being used as a weapon against him.

It feels like we're heading into a positive new era.