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Huntington Avenue shut as Northeastern students celebrate Obama win

By adamg on Wed, 11/05/2008 - 12:26am

Channel 5 reports.

BPL Main Branch steps filled with Obama supporters yelling "USA! USA! USA" and "Yes we can!"

Heather: "It's almost like a World Series celebration." Well, yeah, except without the rioting and people dying.

Celebration in Davis Square.

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By OldProfessorBear on Wed, 11/05/2008 - 12:48am.

Much elation heard from the streets of Cambridge (specifically Mass Ave between Central and Harvard).

Unfortunately, I cannot see anything as I live below ground.

In my opinion, this exceeds any of the Red Sox celebrations I've heard from here.

I think I even hear a brass band (?) out there.

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By adamg on Wed, 11/05/2008 - 7:52am.

Adam Pieniazek reports:

... Riding my bike through the streets of Boston after Obama won, there were people cheering and dancing and yelling and honking their horns in celebration. There were even a group of people splashing jubilantly in a fountain. There wasn’t a mass of people like after the Sox, Celtics, or Patriots victories, but nevertheless there was a lot more people out and about past midnight on a Tuesday night in November than usual. Needless to say, the vast majority of the college students and young people of Boston voted for Barack Obama and last night and early this morning they celebrated with President Barack Obama. ...

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By Kaz on Wed, 11/05/2008 - 10:09am.

I watched the election results on TV last night with a friend over at my house. We both commented on how we have never in our lifetime seen the sort of energized populace that was in Grant Park, Times Square, different community centers and churches across the nation, and even here in Copley and at the Christian Science Center where people were dancing in the reflecting pool...over an election. It was like a World Series celebration wrapped up with the Fourth of July and New Year's Eve! And yet, there was no trouble. No insanity, just joy and relief. Some were celebrating that we're leaving behind a dark day, some were celebrating that we're entering a new chapter in history, and some were celebrating all of it all at the same time. We definitely live in interesting days.

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By Anonymous on Wed, 11/05/2008 - 11:02am.

It is pretty impressive isn't it? ...to have so many people invested in the outcome of this presidential race, to commit their time and energy, to both parties, to help influence the outcome.

The so-called community organizer gave everybody who wanted to help a job to do and look what happened. He asked the average American, via e-mail, to send him $5 or $10 to finance his campaign, (frequently.) I ended up giving $200.

Barack didn't make deals with the K street lobbyists. He owes them nothing.

The citizens of this country may just have gotten their government back from influential corporatists who have been financing elections, writing legislation, and heading up agencies while the work of the people sat idle in Washington.

If Barack runs his presidency like he ran his campaign, we will see a new kind of politics that doesn't descend into name-calling and demonization of political opponents, a politics where the common ground is found and pursued so that left and right can support the initiative.

We have not elected a progressive. We have elected a uniter who will restore dignity to the White House. God bless America.

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By Anonymous on Wed, 11/05/2008 - 1:01pm.

What I actually found upon leaving the [Washington DC television] studio... was a spontaneous display of joy in the Nation's Capital. Mere blocks from the White House on Pennsylvania Avenue, in a buttoned-down section of America's only remaining buttoned-downed town, horns were honking in a ticker-tape stream until three in the morning, and strangers black, white and otherwise were hooting and hollering and giving one another thumbs-ups and high-fives as they passed each other on the street.

There was no sense of anger, or rivalry, no sense that the enemy had been vanquished.

There was, rather, a tremendous sense of empowerment in the notion that someone more like them was going to take up residence down the street: someone younger, someone blacker, someone poorer, someone who knew that the majesty of America exists not just in the tranquility of its small towns but also in the bustle of its cities.

More here.

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