Morning Hors D'oeuvres (President-Elect Barack Obama Edition)

His victory speech.

Andrew has a nice compendium of pundit reax … Ezra Klein’s is my favorite.

Ambinder has a good post game.

Nate – ever the trooper – is still following the unresolved stories, like:

1) Will we have Senator Al Franken, and

2) What’s up with Georgia’s vote totals?

Also, we told you the “Bradley Effect” was dead. Let’s make sure this phrase joins the “permanent Republican majority” in the junkyard of political nonsense.

Just on the heels of that, though, a TPM reporter coins the “Stevens Effect” for when a bunch of Alaskans lie and say they won’t re-elect a convicted felon, but then they do anyway! America … Fuck Yeah!

Bachmann got reelected. Damnit!

Matt still doesn’t get why McCain ran right . He also can't ssee how a bunch of red states moving blue is indicative of a “center-right” country. Seriously, how can you run against a guy by saying he’s a socialist and then claim his victory reinforces the “center-right” thing?

Ezra has a good proposal for pundits who get things really really wrong.

With more seriousness, he looks at the state of our country:

“For the first time, America had to articulate what exactly it feared. Did it truly believe that the middle name "Hussein" suggested a terrorist threat to the country? Well, no. Did it genuinely think Obama a radical Afro-nationalist who had dedicated his life to serving a country he loathed? Probably not. Did it actually seem plausible that Obama wanted to become president so he could finish the job the Weathermen started? Unlikely. The shadowy terrors that animated American politics in the dark aftermath of 9-11 receded. Time had passed. To borrow a line, it was morning in America, and our country looked different in the clean light of the dawn. And so too did its problems.”