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For the first time since I can remember, Colorado is shaded blue on the US map. So many people I know who had either never voted or hadn’t in years, voted in this election. This morning I feel there is a new possibility in this country I have not felt since Clinton won in ‘92 and I worked with the College Democrats (before I quit to go into journalism and be the managing editor of the college paper). Clinton bitterly disappointed me in many ways (no, not the sex thing — his policies, his broken promises to the poorest, most disenfrnachised parts of this country, his lying under oath and participation in Whitewater, just to name a few things). It seems as though we might be able to move past the last eight years, although that leaves enormous burdens on Obama’s shoulders in this “post 9-11 world” (pundits were throwing that term around yesterday).

So much seems possible this cloudy November morning.

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