Would a Green WPA leave women out?

Linda Hirshman considers what Obama’s WPA-like proposal would mean for women:
Mr. Obama compared his infrastructure plan to the Eisenhower-era construction of the Interstate System of highways. It brings back the Eisenhower era in a less appealing way as well: there are almost no women on this road to recovery.
Back before the feminist revolution brought women [...]

O’Bama

Ireland’s staking its claim to Obama:

The Obamas

Here’s a great set of photos from behind the scenes with the Obama family on Election Night.

Omaha goes blue

Obama won Omaha, Nebraska.  (Nebraska and Maine are the only states that split its electoral votes.)

You can always judge a man by the woman who marries him

I love this:
In truth, from the moment Michelle Obama stepped on to that podium at the Democrat convention what seems like, ooh, about three million years ago, we all secretly knew which way this race was going. Sure, he had big, sticky-out ears; sure, all those luvvies made that embarrassing YouTube song about him; but [...]

Victory

I have lots of photos and video from tonight’s partying in the DC streets.  Will post later.  Suffice it to say: Yes, we can, and yes, we did.  Here’s to hope.

Candidates as Cabbage Patch kids

Something tells me the John McCain Cabbage Patch kid will be heavily discounted after tonight, but Palin will be hot for a while longer.
Obama, of course, will be on every kid’s Christmas list this year.

Electoral politics as a competitive market: What happened?

Slate magazine’s final electoral map projection puts 273 electoral votes in the “safe Dem” column.  There’s a very good chance this election will be the sort that my generation has never seen: one that is decided early.
As an economist, I believe that competition drives the parties to adapt and market themselves to evenly divide the [...]

What to watch for on the big night

Nate Silver has your hour-by-hour guide to election night.

Pollster.com calls it for Obama

Tomorrow, Barack Obama will become the first Democratic Presidential candidate since Jimmy Carter in 1976 to win an outright majority of the votes cast on Election Day — and with it a sizeable majority of electoral votes — making him the next President of the United States.
We make this projection knowing that the gap is [...]