A Flickr photo that sums up the day, and a typically incisive Fallows post on why the result outshines 2008.

Meanwhile, at the other end of the scale, they’re gearing up for the next battle in the civil war:

The blue states want to secede not from America but from Americanism. They reject the American republic of God-fearing individuals in favour of the European ideal, which has only been government by aristocracy: either an aristocracy of birth or, nowadays, of ruling know-it-alls — of post-religious, globalist intellectuals (a.k.a. PORGIs).