Many won't believe me, but I've been praying for the above for several months. I do wonder if he has a martyr complex.

But that's what voting is all about - exercising your right to vote as you feel would be best for the country. If you don't vote, you lose the privilege of complaining when things go wrong.

BTW, one thing I was told & took to heart years ago: Never get emotionally involved in an election you can't afford to lose.

Who was expected to riot? I don't think people need to get overly paranoid, he is certainly a more "at-risk" candidate for a lunatic fringe attempt, but I think the likelihood is pretty low, certainly for a successful attempt. They're going to secure the hell out of him. I do give Michelle credit though, I can't imagine that a little flutter of worry doesn't go through her every time he steps out in front of a big crowd.

Actually, it seems with victories like this, the riots tend to be supporters of the candidate. Take, for example, the eruption of Oakland (around Pitt's campus) in Pittsburgh, PA, when the Steelers won Super Bowl XL. Those were Steelers fans flipping over cars.

Or, WVU fans when WVU wins in football. Those flaming couches don't just light themselves.

They were talking on the news today about how well Chicago did when thrust into the political spotlight. No major security incidents were reported. Everyone's pretty proud that, while the celebration was HUGE and completely sincere, it didn't turn violent. Hopefully it's a sign of how Chicagoans will behave when and if we get the Olympics in 2016.

Riots by whom? Skinheads and other psychos like that?:confused:

I wouldn't worry just as I'm sure Obama isn't. When it's your time, it's your time. If we all lived in fear of the "what if" I don't we would ever get anything accomplished.

No, they certainly don't! ;)

There have been studies showing that in males, testosterone surges greatly when the sports team they are rooting for wins. It is suspected that this surge creates increased aggression and leads to those riots after sport championship wins. I'm not sure elections cause that same surge.

I would guess it would depend on how emotionally invested the electorate gets in a political candidate. Some people watch politics like sports.

I was worried that whoever won the electoral vote wouldn't win the popular vote (deja vu 2000 election). Thankfully that didn't happen.

I never said I only expected the wounded Republicans to riot. By all means, I expect it of the "Neo-Nazi skinheads" most (probably not a pc term, but it's the most accurate I've got), but trust and believe I expected some sort of violent shenanigans (and accompanying retaliation) from both sides.

With the riots,

the thing that scares me is it's going to happen after Obama becomes president. I mean yesterday news broke from Statesboro there was riot and somebody got shot. Granted, this is Georgia and is part of the "Solid South" but still that is quite scary that that happened. At least the majority of the riots yesterday were ones that weren't violent.

^^^I think my neighbor may have one of those because CLEARLY she and whatever guest she watched the results with "celebrated" extra loudly right after the results were called. I just left my apartment for awhile, I'm tired of telling her to keep it down.

LOL! Sorry about that. My sister used to do that to me frequently when we were roommates...it was a JOYOUS day when she moved out :)

I'm not so much worred about the folks in general that were celebrating in the street in front of the White House after results were called. I'm worried about the idiots that were holding up old Soviet Union flags on TV in that same crowd...I didnt find that very becoming to their cause/candidate.

it could have been a joke...I was getting so tired of being called a dirty Commie by a certain group at school that I wore a USSR flag T-shirt to school one day.

^^^I agree it was most likely meant sarcastically, a tweak back at the folks who were crying "socialism" as loudly as they could, trying to make it stick those last couple weeks.

Similar to how my husband and I, when we walked into Starbucks to get our free coffee after voting on Tuesday, starting haranguing the staff just for the fun of it. "So you're just GIVING the coffee away to anyone who walks in here and asks for it? What's that, redistribution of the coffee?" And then when they handed us the coffee in their holiday cups, we launched into, "Oh! Of course! RED cups!"...

Yeah, we crack ourselves up. :)

In college kids at least, I think they do.

(P.S. The first minute is really boring: skip through it.)

That's about as funny a joke as those nutjobs hanging a model of Sarah Palin by the neck.

or as funny as a curious george doll

wearing a USSR shirt != hanging Sarah Palin in effigy.

IMHO.

I was in a "political campaign" store (one of those spoof stores where all the merchandise mocks the candidates) and there was a blue shirt with a monkey running for president on it. It was on the Dem side, so they weren't talking about Georgie. :mad:

yeah, no, I agree both are pretty bad. Just saying that it came from both major parties. And probably minor ones as well.

I was in two of those stores this summer, and what I saw in both of them sickened me - for either party.

What concerned me for this election, once I got my training class done, things coordinated and people together to set up and run the election at the precinct that I was assigned to, the results turned in finally-- was this--

Knowing that my candidates for President and VP were going to lose despite my efforts and that alot of Chicago was going down to a party for the other candidate. This said, I am glad that we have a President and that he is from the city of Chicago and the state of Illinois. Yes, I am proud of President Obama despite the fact that I voted the other way. This is a historical election; he won it fair and square and Obama deserves to be supported now by members of both parties.

The fact Obama won and the better guy MCCAIN didnt win....now that concerns me!